tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21072980959825784142024-03-10T08:26:06.299+00:00Isn't it dinnertime yet?The hard lives of four cats (and an interloper) surviving a totalitarian regime.Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05698451714010736316noreply@blogger.comBlogger124125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107298095982578414.post-38959285924403570222012-12-06T17:06:00.001+00:002012-12-06T17:06:14.727+00:00Goodbye and welcome<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've moved house. No one asked us; it was a forcible eviction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://catsdinnertime.wordpress.com. Just click <a href="http://catsdinnertime.wordpress.com/">HERE</a> and you'll find yourself on the front door mat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moving house is horrid, and we need our friends. We hope you'll pop over and visit us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bring fish.</span>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05698451714010736316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107298095982578414.post-68925421929488521102012-11-02T10:46:00.000+00:002012-11-02T10:46:35.999+00:00Four!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am four years old. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been promised treats. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cream, I hope. I <i>love</i> dairy products!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wish I had this cat's life!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, here's my treat. Perhaps this life is fine as it is. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy Birthday to me.</span>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05698451714010736316noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107298095982578414.post-53731558753838736482012-11-01T10:57:00.002+00:002012-11-01T10:57:58.800+00:00Despair<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But - sometimes - I do.</span><br />
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<br />Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05698451714010736316noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107298095982578414.post-25458606909192007902012-10-16T19:48:00.003+01:002012-10-16T19:48:39.888+01:00Busy<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What do you mean, we're a bunch of idle slackers? We are simply too busy to write blog posts, that's all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have much to be getting on with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe during the winter. Don't go away. But don't hold your breaths either.</span><br />
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One of Hamish's greatest longings is to have Queen Lottie be nice to him. And usually she ignores him.<br />
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Queen Lottie rules with an iron fist in a velvet paw, and being nice to the lowest in the <strike>pecking</strike> purring order doesn't feature strongly in her reign.<br />
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But yesterday, busy doing her nails, she mellowed, and the lowliest of her subjects was allowed to creep up to sit on her chair. And then - oh joy! - to have his face and ears washed very thoroughly, as he drooled and purred like a little motor bike, and to sleep afterwards, snuggled up and happy at last.<br />
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Not that it <i>will</i> last, of course. Rulers have to maintain their status, subjects have to know their place, and law enforcement round here is not always a pretty sight.<br />
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But for an hour, one little ginger cat was in heaven.<br />
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A garden bench is so useful. This one is mine. I like it because it has a handy gap at the back that allows me to hang my tail down rather comfortably while I think.<br />
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I say Rachel should give me a cushion.<br />
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Rachel says I'm sufficiently well-padded.<br />
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She also says I should have moved along a bit to hide the patches of missing render on the kitchen wall.<br />
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She can call me when it's supper time.Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05698451714010736316noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107298095982578414.post-62693062637867101992012-06-12T10:52:00.001+01:002012-06-12T10:52:33.277+01:00Change and no change<br />
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She sits there as though she owns the place.<br />
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I still hate her.<br />
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Everyone know it is I who owns the place.Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05698451714010736316noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107298095982578414.post-806114467179558132012-05-08T22:03:00.003+01:002012-05-08T22:04:59.862+01:00Friend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lottie isn't interested in photography. It must be a boy thing.<br />
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We have been sacked.<br />
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All those hours spent frog-watching, often at night, as well as all those hours spent frogspawn-gazing, and what happens?<br />
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<i>She</i> decides she's not having a pond any more.<br />
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She was very dramatic about it. "Three frogs in the sitting room in one week!" So? Isn't that our job, fetching frogs to amuse her?<br />
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"What if all that frog spawn hatches? Tiny frogs would never survive being carried in like that!" Well, we could eat them, I suppose. The big ones aren't nice to eat; we have to clamp them tightly in our jaws, and drop them when they're safely indoors. That's what she seems to object to the most; frogs hiding under the bookshelves and cupboards.<br />
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Millie says it was the same in Newcastle with the field mice. No appreciation of our efforts.<br />
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It's tiresome.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Rachel writes:</i> <b>Three</b> large frogs in as many days, one rather too bulky for the cartoon cat to carry without damaging it slightly. Little froglets wouldn't stand a chance, and the constant vigilance required on all sides</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">- cats and mine -</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> is nerve-racking. Much as I love the cats, I can't bear to see small creatures tormented by them, no matter how instinctual and natural this might be.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">So the frog spawn has gone to a neighbour's pond, and the pond itself - small and ugly, and on the list for upgrading - is to be filled in instead. There will be nature-friendly plants introduced in its place. No argument.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Scooter will no doubt continue to bring live frogs indoors, but at least I'll know I didn't provide him with the source.</span>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05698451714010736316noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107298095982578414.post-51100459587222101422012-02-25T19:52:00.000+00:002012-02-25T19:52:43.770+00:00Aliens!We all went for a walk today.<br />
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They tried to go without me - again. I had to break through the locked cat flap to follow them. I simply hooked the flap towards me, as Rachel had only locked it one way to stop me getting out, forgetting that I am the cleverest cat in the household.<br />
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We had a lovely walk. A little girl on a pony went by. I watched her with interest.<br />
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Then we got to the field at the very end of the road, and....<br />
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I couldn't believe my eyes!<br />
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Enormous creatures with fluffy trousers! Aliens, obviously.<br />
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I looked at them.<br />
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They looked at me.<br />
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I looked at them some more.<br />
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Tricia took my photo, because I was <i>mesmerised</i>.<br />
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And then we all came home again. Sadly, the aliens didn't follow us.<br />
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I loved those aliens.Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05698451714010736316noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107298095982578414.post-40134817768781877122012-02-13T22:15:00.000+00:002012-02-13T22:15:19.381+00:00Glowing reportHello.<br />
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It's me, Hamish. The golden boy.<br />
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Rachel loves me.<br />
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I can see why.<br />
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Oh, all right then, Scooter. She loves you too.<br />
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I rise above it.Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05698451714010736316noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107298095982578414.post-3542778776120858022012-02-01T17:02:00.000+00:002012-02-01T17:02:35.921+00:00WTF?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUabF8WkI7mmR3gCpHY7wNML0Ayv_JWwlN1ViM6797thauvjbAio97m43Q2QtJQhYUYWNhlfFkpYeb8S1-b79ksU-ETivVHgDkWmxTW0pC09nK5GzIoWXFyMFNYsXW4-8P1HBtJefOeTeA/s1600/Liebster_Award+Image.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUabF8WkI7mmR3gCpHY7wNML0Ayv_JWwlN1ViM6797thauvjbAio97m43Q2QtJQhYUYWNhlfFkpYeb8S1-b79ksU-ETivVHgDkWmxTW0pC09nK5GzIoWXFyMFNYsXW4-8P1HBtJefOeTeA/s320/Liebster_Award+Image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />
Rachel - a woman of strange ideas at the best of times - says "No Swearing on your blog!" We say "WTF? (What's This For?) isn't swearing!"<br />
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Anyway, this award thing: what <i>is</i> it for? Does it scamper about and let us catch it? Can we eat it? Does it smell nicely of catnip? No.<br />
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<a href="http://brookwoodletters.blogspot.com/2012/02/sunshine-finished-cosyand-award.html">Annie</a> gave it to us.<br />
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We have to say thank you, apparently, although we can't fathom out why. No one says thank you to us when we give them something they don't really want, like a hairball.<br />
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Hmmmmm.....maybe Annie just wanted to be rid of it. Like we do with hairballs.....<br />
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Ah, now we understand. Thanks, Annie; we'll save ours up for you.<br />
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And I realised that I should, if only to tone up my lovely curves a little. So I'm going to run my own Bums and Tums class, several times a week. Each class will include exercise, a nutrition seminar (practical), rest and relaxation.<br />
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I've had two sessions so far.<br />
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For the first one, I went outside, and hopped up onto the wall.<br />
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I had a good look over into Next Door's garden. They are the people who Hamish and Scooter spy on through the bedroom window.<br />
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And then I hopped down again. I have to ease myself into this; no point in straining myself.<br />
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I invited Scooter to join in. He's curvaceous and gets called portly too.<br />
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Scooter said he wasn't a body fascist like some. He'd stick with his lovely curves, he thought.<br />
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So I came indoors for the nutrition part of the class. I checked the dinner dish and went back upstairs for the rest and relaxation session.<br />
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The following day, I tried the other wall. First onto the wheelie bin. A promising start, I thought.<br />
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And then onto the wall.<br />
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I had a good look up and down the other Next Door's drive. That's the house where Millie's Enemies live. She goes into their house to tell them that she is in charge of their drive.<br />
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I got a bit stuck under the weathervane thing. Rachel commented that Bums and Tums was just what I needed to focus on, and maybe reduce the nutrition class element. What nonsense.<br />
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I cooled down, hopped off the bin, and went inside.<br />
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I checked out the dinner dish as part of the nutrition seminar,and went back upstairs to relax.<br />
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I didn't do anything today. This exercise lark is a bit boring and repetitive, is all I'm saying.<br />
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Maybe meditation is more my thing. I'm good at sitting still, just breathing.....Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05698451714010736316noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107298095982578414.post-62678381671998489092012-01-27T14:23:00.000+00:002012-01-27T14:23:25.250+00:00Isn't that ok?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhADb_YF-sv50iBVgYmFMkmqBqqoPpTXfVNDhjSfPvz2G4FEJ8rFHbzFeVVUH89fvg8x_OnQpoqCC2_gxWjQhMnFsMzYCIwQs2tW0ncFddzBiOa8x_eag-1ve936M6wvrGdFMzQta837Sab/s1600/IMG_0929.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhADb_YF-sv50iBVgYmFMkmqBqqoPpTXfVNDhjSfPvz2G4FEJ8rFHbzFeVVUH89fvg8x_OnQpoqCC2_gxWjQhMnFsMzYCIwQs2tW0ncFddzBiOa8x_eag-1ve936M6wvrGdFMzQta837Sab/s640/IMG_0929.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />
Rachel thinks I don't get enough exercise. She says I just sleep, eat, sleep, with naps in between.<br />
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Not true! I tell her. I also spend time thinking.<br />
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And washing. Then thinking some more.<br />
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Sometimes she carries me downstairs and dumps me in the garden.<br />
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I might stay there for a few minutes, and then come in through the cat flap.<br />
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I always check the dinner dish before I go upstairs to resume my nap.<br />
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What? What?<br />
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Going upstairs is exercise, isn't it?Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05698451714010736316noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107298095982578414.post-20191717485036402072012-01-23T09:52:00.001+00:002012-01-27T14:24:03.567+00:00RefreshingRachel has a little bottle that she brings out now and then. It has a love potion in it.<br />
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She sprays the love potion on our toys.<br />
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It makes them love us.Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05698451714010736316noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107298095982578414.post-25569310522650464152012-01-21T15:52:00.000+00:002012-01-21T15:52:01.914+00:00Hand-me-downs<br />
When I was a kitten, this teddy was my favourite toy.<br />
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We talked.<br />
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We cuddled.<br />
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We wrestled.<br />
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We snoozed.<br />
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I'm all grown up now, and I don't play with toys any more. <br />
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So Rachel gave my teddy to Flossie.<br />
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Rachel has to wash it more often now.<br />
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Flossie is thrilled to bits with her new teddy.<br />
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She says she's going to start collecting orange toys.<br />
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Happy for you, Flossie.<br />
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Me, I'm waiting for Spring. Then I shall start collecting frogs again.<br />
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I don't care what colour they are.<br />
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I don't understand, but I like to watch out for them.<br />
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But you wouldn't see a cat letting itself be taken advantage of like that.<br />
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We are in deep disgrace.<br />
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First Rachel found a tiny black feather in the kitchen.<br />
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She said her heart sank. Humans are such dramatic creatures!<br />
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She investigated further.<br />
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Two more feathers in front of the sofa (and a lot of dog hair, we notice - she hasn't hoovered for days. She says a) she's ashamed, and b) she may get her eyes tested soon).<br />
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She removed our dead blackbird, and wrapped it up in paper. We think she is going to eat it later.<br />
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Tosca and Flossie are going to snitch, apparently.<br />
<br />Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05698451714010736316noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107298095982578414.post-83454333771376816222011-12-31T23:18:00.000+00:002011-12-31T23:18:14.125+00:00New Year's Eve Party People<br />
Not us. We prefer to sleep.<br />
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<i>Note: You will have noticed that we are 2 cats short; Scooter is under the sofa; Hamish is behind the wardrobe; both state that it's too late in the evening to have their photo taken. </i><br />
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to all our devoted admirers, you people of such good taste and discernment.<br />
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We'll be back next year.<br />
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Nighty-night.<br />
<br />Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05698451714010736316noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107298095982578414.post-5024320620824334192011-12-25T22:25:00.000+00:002011-12-25T22:25:18.455+00:00Unfair<br />
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They went out without me today - again. They know I should always come for walks with them, but they can be mean, and try to leave me behind. They often creep out of the house with the dogs, but usually I hear them, and run through the cat flap and round the house to catch them up. Rachel says I can hear a dog-lead being clipped on even if I'm upstairs sound asleep.<br />
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Some days Rachel is even sneakier: she puts the dogs in the car and takes them somewhere else to have their walk, just to thwart me. They come back wet and smelling horrible, like water and sand; she says I wouldn't like it. But I still want to go too!<br />
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Today while she was putting the dogs in the car, I took matters into my own paws. <i>I got in too. </i>I'm coming with you, I said, with my most assertive look.<br />
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And guess what she did? She made me get out.<br />
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She said "Not wanted on voyage, Millie."<br />
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Next time I'm hiding under the back seat.<br />
<br />Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05698451714010736316noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107298095982578414.post-88693780762835889882011-12-20T22:43:00.000+00:002011-12-20T22:43:08.218+00:00Fire<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Scooter: what's not to trust?<br />
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Flossie: Cats! Always hogging the fire.<br />
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Tosca: At least it keeps them out of my bed.<br />
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Rachel says that she considers Scooter and Hamish as Decorative Objects That Eat. She doesn't think of them as her Pets at all, although she loves them dearly. She tries very hard not to mind that they run away from her unless she's offering food, or to worry so much about Hamish.<br />
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Lottie and I think the boys are pretty useless compared to us. We are both Pets and Decorative Objects. Yes, we eat, although not as piggily as the boys, but we offer so much more. (In reality we think of Rachel as our Pet, rather than the other way round.) We sleep on her bed and we follow her around, because we like to keep her happy. We strike interesting poses to keep her charmed and amused; we make endearing little cheeping sounds when we see her, and we never run away when she comes into a room. She's a very responsive Pet.<br />
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And we are the best bed warmers ever, Rachel says. She particularly likes the way we walk on her in the middle of the night and purr in her face. At least, we think she likes it, so we do it several times a night. Hamish and Scooter don't think of little kindnesses like we do.<br />
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But we thought we could expand our multiple roles, particularly in the Decorative Object line.<br />
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Useful and beautiful, we are.<br />
<br />Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05698451714010736316noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107298095982578414.post-40928848950653121792011-11-02T18:42:00.000+00:002011-11-02T18:43:41.661+00:00Happy Birthday to MeeeeeeIt's my birthday today. I am three years old, which is a very important and Grown Up age to be.<br />
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I've lived with Rachel since I was eight weeks old, and she knows that my birthday must be celebrated.<br />
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I have spent the day snoozing on the windowsill.<br />
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And I've had treats.<br />
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Rachel knows what I like, but it wasn't always so.<br />
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In fact, I had a pretty <a href="http://attica-slowlife.blogspot.com/2009/11/birthday-girl.html"><i>disappointing birthday dinner</i> </a>once, and Rachel promised she would do better in future.<br />
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So today I had extra dinner - not the boring dry kibble that we always get, but the nice stuff in a little bag. I only like the meaty gravy ones, and not the jelly kind, or the fish. I had a slice of roast beef too. Very tasty.<br />
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I also had those treat sticks - I <i>love</i> those! and can pull them out of the wrapper myself.<br />
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Then I had some Philly.<br />
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I love Philly very much, but I don't try to <a href="http://attica-slowlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/millie-hearts.html"><i>open the packs myself</i></a>, now that I'm Grown Up.<br />
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Now I'm going out for the evening. I might go clubbing. Want to come?<br />
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