Sunday , June 25, 2006 – 9:13
I don’t often feel obliged to comment on the news, or highlight a particular item, but this article about police overreaction made me want to scream. “Ray Markham said footballs had been flying into his garden for years but when one smashed into his greenhouse last month he refused to return it. The 68-year-old, who [...]
Sunday , June 18, 2006 – 8:05
I have to record this momentous occasion: Mogret has let us sleep in! It is now 9am, and I woke before her. I do hope she’s not broken. She was miowing last night as we were trying to sleep, which isn’t normal for her. She’s purry and friendly this morning and isn’t giving us any [...]
Saturday , June 17, 2006 – 19:38
Strawberry, originally uploaded by Purplekitten. Owing to an impulsive plant-purchase, we are currently cultivating strawberries. This is the first of the crop, and hopefully there will be plenty more to follow. This strawberry was the nicest strawberry I have ever tasted: it was very juicy, deliciously ripe and had the most amazing flavour. All other [...]
Thursday , June 15, 2006 – 18:31
Rest easy, I am not temporally displaced, this is not an Easter reference. I merely found myself musing on the sudden insertion of both into my life and wished to comment thereon. For the previous seven and twenty years of my life, I had remained blissfully unaware of the abundance of rabbits that grace almost [...]
Saturday , June 10, 2006 – 17:39
Before I married philb, I shared a house and a life with another man, and a varying number of cats. Victoria Elvina, the eldest, was a regal, totally-black lady who ruled the household with an iron paw. We lost her in 2001: found her lying on the ground outside, having died some time during the [...]
Monday , June 5, 2006 – 19:48
Exeunt omnes, originally uploaded by Purplekitten. Random Cat is now a regular visitor to this restaurant: waiting outside the back door in the morning, and sauntering idly to the food bowl of an evening. Once he has eaten his fill, it’s off over the gate again, to do whatever a tom has to do during [...]