blobs on January 15th, 2010

quite possibly the last photo my D70 will take

Originally uploaded by ramtops

Henry is prone to paddling in his water bowl (no, I don’t know why). He also likes to do an Arthur on his food, spearing bits on an elegant claw and eating them from there.
This morning, I put a load of dried kidney [...]

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blobs on January 15th, 2010

Pete and I went out last night, and when we got home, circa 10 p.m., Iggy was sitting on the back of the armchair, watching out of the window.  I tapped on the glass, and over 15 seconds or so, Henry, Ron and Lilith all turned up – they swarmed over the chair and the [...]

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blobs on January 7th, 2010

Don’t try this at home.

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blobs on January 4th, 2010

The weather is cold, cold, and the cats are In.  Iggy, in particular, hates the cold weather, and won’t go out unless we put him on the other side of the front door, where he rowls mournfully for several minutes before travelling round to the back door, (hopefully) doing his business en route.  Unfortunately, we [...]

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blobs on December 11th, 2009

Apologies for the lack of cameras for a few weeks – we needed to wait till the Tribe had found their favourite places before we installed the photographic equipment.
Two catcams are now online, and the other two will follow real soon.

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blobs on December 8th, 2009

Iggy in the study

Originally uploaded by ramtops

He seems to be settling in reasonably well now :)

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blobs on December 6th, 2009

On 21st November, we moved house from North Somerset to Kingston-upon-Hull, in East Yorkshire. This involved someone – me, in fact – drawing the short straw and driving the five cats 230 miles.
We put the older two in a cattery – I felt that if they were around while the removal was going on, [...]

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blobs on October 25th, 2009

Henry and Ron had been showing particular interest in the shelves in the kitchen for a couple of days.  We put this down to an unfortunate frog/toad-related incident on Tuesday night which I haven’t had time to tell you about yet.
However, on Friday night, as I sat watching mindless television while stuffed up with flu, [...]

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blobs on October 15th, 2009

I think we can safely say, at last, that the cats are no longer using litter trays.  This is the first time in our 12 years of joint cat ownership that we haven’t needed trays, and we’re not about to get rid of them just in case it’s a flash in the pan (as it [...]

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blobs on September 29th, 2009

We are moving house soon, and have to empty the freezers. Upon investigating the Freezer Under the Stairs at the weekend, I found a sealed plastic bag of what looked very like liver, presumably obtained as part of the half a salt marsh lamb we bought a while back. Now, I like liver, [...]

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