Net curtains

Posted on March 14, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Cats, Fun, Humour, Looking in, Neighbours, Net curtains, Painting, StudioLeave a comment

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When you live next to a road, without a front garden, you need something to obscure people views of the inside of your home. I mean, if it was a show home it might be different, but I’m messy when it comes to life. I’ve got lots of art materials and canvases so you can imagine.. I have a studio at Spode, but in winter it’s too cold to use.

Anyway I used to have lovely net curtains, with cat patterns on them, but they got clawed by my new cats, so these are stronger, less easy to damage. The cats still climb on the windowledge and look out, half the time they pull the net curtains along with them, so I’m constantly having to straighten them up…. Like a nosy neighbour twitching their curtains!

Cat videos

Posted on February 9, 2020February 9, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Bad rhymes, Cats, Fun, Gif, Life, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, Video?4 Comments

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I keep watching cat videos and gifs

They cheer me up

And lift my gloom

Watching kitty’s

Chase round a room.

Jumping high

And leaping up,

Dogs get chased

And cats erupt

From stairways

Hallways

Up curtains

And onto of doors.

Cats abound

With barely a sound

Make me smile

And

Forget a while.

Cat tree

Posted on January 21, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Asleep, Cat, Cat tree, Cats, Curled up, Humour, Tired, Warm2 Comments

In winter the cats retreat to their cat tree. It’s angled to be close to the radiator. The female fits neatly on her tray. But the male is more squashed up. He squeezes on but his leg and tail sometimes flop off the edge. His tray is slightly further away from the radiator, bur they have always kept the same positions, they don’t swap. Sometimes if they get too hot they go off in search of different places. Then comes the battle of the armchairs. The cats know which is my hubby’s and like stealing his seat if he goes out of the room….

If I coukd I would shrink down to cat size and curl up on the top tray above the two cats and relax. They don’t use it so it’s free….

On the windowledge.

Posted on January 13, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cats, Dawn, Life, Photo, Playing, Staring, Watching, WindowledgeLeave a comment

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Got up and saw one of the cats sitting on the windowledge in the front bedroom. She likes watching the traffic passing and seeing the pigeons fly up onto the factory roof. The picture is grainy because it was very early in the morning, about the same time I took photos of the dawn. Cats are curious creatures. They love looking at things, playing with their toys and chasing each other. But sometimes they have a quiet moment and just sit and watch the world go by.

Squabble over a basket.

Posted on December 23, 2019 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cats, Chasing, Fun, Jumping, Playing, Pounce, RacingLeave a comment

My cats do like play fighting, at the moment they are either squabbling over a basket or trying to be top cat on top of the settee. Seeing them running backwards and forwards is great, or hiding under the coats by the back door and pouncing from underneath them as the other one runs past. It can be very funny. But it is only play fighting. They make little purring noises as they chase. Its like they are talking to each other. Leaping over each other. Flying, skipping, jumping. Fun.

Green view

Posted on December 16, 2019December 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Animals, Autumn, Blogging, Cats, Garden, Gardening, Ivy, Life, Plants, Wild birdsLeave a comment

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Cold, wet and windy, but still a bit green where the ivy is growing up trees in the garden. Really it needs cutting back. I don’t want it strangling them. There are bird feeders out there, but there seem to be less birds than normal. Perhaps they have enough food, we haven’t seen evidence of them being predated by cats thankfully. I want to get out there and cut back the buddliea bushes. They need pruning.

The pond is OK, it’s hidden below the cherry tree. It has only frozen a couple of times and only thinly this autumn / winter. We hope to have tadpoles in the spring.

Purring cats

Posted on December 15, 2019December 15, 2019 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Animals, Basket, Black and white cat, Cat, Cats, Chase, Fun, Life, Pets, PlayLeave a comment

Purring puss

He loves his new basket

Curled up warm and snug!

But jealousy arrives with his sister

Who loves it too.

Squabbles ensue, much chasing,

up and down stairs,

behind the curtains…

Scooting backwards and forwards,

In and out the basket,

one after the other.

Till finally,

they both ignore it,

staying in seperate places.

Eyeing up the basket,

at an impasse….

Neither willing to trespass.

Wish I’d bought two.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Cats