Bandit arrived, along with his sister Pixie, on August 1st 2006. He wasn’t the cat we’d gone to collect… we’d actually gone to get Pixie, and Bandit, the runt of the litter, was the only other cat left and he won us over by basically trying to climb into Kathy’s handbag. So we returned with […]
It feels odd being in the house without Kathy, I know I spend a lot of time during the day by myself normally but its in the evenings that I really miss her. It seems odd cooking just for me and the evenings drag on and when it comes to bed time it really does […]
Smokey, one of our two Manx cats, died today. She had developed kidney disease and she was off her food and was very subdued so we took her back to the vets on Saturday. Despite trying “poor man’s dialysis” where they put the cat on a saline drip to help flush the kidneys through the […]
Well the week at work seemed extremely long for some reason. Maybe the three day weekend on the boat made it seem that way, or maybe its just work. Tuesday Night the Out Of Town Pub Night Group went to The Fleet Inn at Twyning which was very pleasant : three Real Ales, and staff […]
Well if all goes to plan we are off to the boat on Thursday night for a few “relaxing” days away from work. I say relaxing because we haven’t quite decided how much to push. If the weather is lousy too hot me might not go far, if the weather conditions are just right then […]
This is Smokey – a middle aged Manx cat. Smokey’s lifestyle seems to be based on that of Bagpuss and she loves nothing more to lie around all day doing nothing except eat, sleep and, of course fluff! Anyway she was a bit overweight – OK so she was a lot overweight, like overweight by […]