As ever, 18th is the first day of Mousemas as celebrated by all Donich kitties. It is a carry over from the earlier mid-winter festival of “vole”. Our tree is already up.

Had my shoulder replacement operation. Great care from staff at Ross Hall and nice room. They even let me home a day early as all seems to be going ok and weather tomorrow is forecast to be awful. Arm in sling and strictly forbidden to use, so all posts will be short and to the […]

I’m not on for doing anything too vigorous at the moment because of my arm (and on that note, I won’t be writing much for the next few weeks as I am off to hospital today for a shoulder replacement operation). So I made a Christmas project which didn’t involve two hands or heavy lifting. […]

Since we acquired him (or vice versa), Lucky has never been known to play. We’ve tried him with all sorts of toys, but he never seemed to get the hang of it, and I have a theory about this. No one in the village had seen or heard of Lucky, and we think he was […]

Went to Glasgow in the car today. It was a lovely day here, and all our “local” mountains were covered in snow – down to about 400m at a guess. Going alongside Loch Lomond, it was just as pretty, with “The Ben” (as we used to call it as children) jutting far above the other […]

I may get shot down as a philistine for this. But having watched MasterChef both amateur and professional versions for many years I am afraid that my tolerance for any more of the wank they have been turning out of late is now at an end. Last week was the finals, and the contestants were […]

Lucky now sleeps in the room which used to belong to J. The case is my part packed one for hospital next week, and he sleeps behind it against the radiator and next to some rather nervous toys. It must be a dream to him having a warm soft place to sleep and unlimited Felix […]

R is away in London (again!). He normally feeds the cats and makes the coffee in the mornings, because Lucky (although largely domesticated now) is still suffering from some aggression issues. Specifically when he is “hangry” in the mornings, he has a tendency to swipe out at the legs and hands that are trying to […]

We bought Saphy a “spider on a rod” toy for Christmas. Amber is getting prawns, and Lucky is getting cream – but Saphy is not very food oriented. So I put the spider on top of the pile of presents ready for wrapping. Within five minutes she had found it and was trying to unwrap […]

As R is making the Christmas Dinner this year for the first time as I will have my arm in a sling, I (out of the goodness of my heart) sent him some detailed instructions as to how to prepare it and effectively run his kitchen and drinks service. For my trouble I got this […]