[just like buses - you get no posts for ages, then three come along at once]
We were away at the weekend – not for long, just a flying visit to Yorkshire to inspect our new home. We left at 7 a.m. on Friday and were home by 5 p.m. on Saturday, and Rob the Catsitter [...]
Autumn has arrived here in Somerset all of a sudden; the evenings are drawing in, and there’s a lovely nip in the air.
This seasonal change is confirmed by the Tribe; Mustrum is often indoors when I get up, cats are sharing the bed with us, more food is being eaten at home as the neighbours’ [...]
Our weekend was bracketed by death.
Friday night, maybe midnight or thereabouts, we were woken by mad scrabbling on the landing. Investigation revealed Ron with a new toy: another mouse was moments away from its end.
There was a degree of oh-buggrit-we-want-to-sleep-clean-up-the-bits-in-the-morning and we subsided; until, that is, Ron brought his prize into the bedroom. No way [...]
Continue reading about it’s death before and death after: just all death all the time
Dear Ron
We know that you like to go hunting at night – we don’t like it, but we understand. And we understand that you want to bring your kills home, although you don’t bring them to us to show them off.
However, the chirps and other general noise that ensues is starting to get us down. [...]
Ron and Henry
Originally uploaded by ramtops
Pete thinks that EnRon look like the Kray twins in this photo. And they are very good to their mother …
We have a fish pond, and a stream at the bottom of the garden. It is thus somewhat of a rite of passage for cats in this household that they at some point come home very wet indeed. With Bada, we had to hose her down with jugfuls of warm water at 1 a.m. Iggy [...]
This afternoon I found Henry and Ron busily investigating a bumble bee which had somehow fallen into their clutches. They were fascinated by the sound it made, and had batted it about enough for it to be not very well at all. Pete removed it, as what we really don’t need is a kitten with [...]
Henry likes porridge!
We bought a cheap little camera in town yesterday, a Pentax M50, to keep downstairs – this is the first video, which didn’t come out too bad at all.
Henry likes to chase the shadow of his tail – he does this a lot, for a very long time usually. Except, it seems, when there’s a [...]
I just went downstairs to fetch the washing in from the line (and how nice to be able to dry it outside!), and passed four cats snoozing peacefully in the living room; Mustrum was up here in the study.
I can’t tell you how nice it was, as last evening we were worried enough about Henry [...]
