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Dec 9th, 2023

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Red legs and a tail

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 […]

Dec 7th, 2023

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Saphy and the Spider

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 […]

Dec 6th, 2023

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Chat GPT Christmas dinner instructions

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 […]

Dec 4th, 2023

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Changing the beds

Changing J’s bed in the spare room today prior to him coming up for Christmas. Once the bottom sheet was on, Saphy decided this could be a good place to sleep. She also acquired a new ‘project’ to work on yesterday when R built me a new office chair. The old one was seven years […]

Dec 3rd, 2023

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Jacqui Lawson Calendar

My Mum, J and I do the Jacqui Lawson Advent Calendar every year. I tried to get R into it a few years ago but it is not his cup of tea. The Jacqui Lawson website is great for sending HTML greetings cards by email, and every year she does an Advent Calendar – for […]

Dec 1st, 2023

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Lucky in the doorway

He is still as voracious as ever. One way and another he is cadging about 8 pouches of Felix a day out of us. This is way too much and he is now being cut down to one pouch per feed apart from overnight when he can keep on having two. He annoys me by […]

Nov 30th, 2023

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Chowder and homemade cottage loaf

This was the homemade chowder we had for lunch today. Some people put smoked bacon in theirs, but I am not that keen on it, so I just leave it out. Served with a homemade cottage loaf. I use the breadmaker to make the dough (with my dodgy arm kneading dough would be very difficult). […]

Nov 30th, 2023

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Cats and milk

Apparently along with humans suddenly having developed violent gluten and lactose allergies in the last ten years – cats are following the trend too and now “you shouldn’t give your cat milk”. I’ll put this one firmly in the category of “you shouldn’t let your cat go outside” as a big bunch of crap. I’ve […]

Nov 29th, 2023

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Lost my sweepstake on GBBO

Well, Dan’s eclairs and macarons let me down and he didn’t win. Matty was a deserved winner though. I watched the bake off this morning rather than last night, because I have a subscription to Channel 4 OD which lets me watch it without adverts. I am violently allergic to adverts and use an ad […]