When the cat stops you typing

Posted on August 1, 2020August 1, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Assignment, Books, Cat, Cheeky, College work, Computer, Fun, Keyboard, Photo, Reading, Text, Typing6 Comments

Two seconds before she had her head on the mouse! Of course as I picked the phone up to take her photo, she had to watch what I was doing.

She managed to type. 00ppppppppppppppp and /mmmmmmmmmmmm before I got to the backspace button. At least she didn’t press send! She was stopping me from finishing off a redraft of some notes about reflexivity (don’t ask). I’d realised that I’d miss read the question and needed to add more information about the text I had read.

I was reading a book by Anthony Giddens and trying to understand it but it’s hard going. Now I’ve had a rest I can’t remember what it’s called!

Old bike spanner

Posted on August 1, 2020August 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bicycle tube, Bike, Bike tyre, Cycling, Memories, Old tools, Photo, Random, Rusty, Spanner, Tyre leaver2 Comments

Funny what you find in the drawer when you are looking for something else. Hubbies bike spanner for tightening up his nuts. It’s a little rusty but still useful. If you turn it nintey degrees it looks like a shocked face! Maybe even like the painting the scream! The other end of the spanner has a curve at the end. I think it is meant to be a tyre leaver to leaver off a bike tyre when changing a tube or repairing it.

I love the old worn look of this spanner, I guess it’s at least forty years old. Sometimes things get put away then turn up when you least expect it.

Salad for tea

Posted on July 30, 2020July 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged ccolour, Eating, Food, Gnocchi, Layout app, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Salad, Tasty, TeatimeLeave a comment

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Just wanted a cool meal

Lettuce and radish

Avocado and tomato

Tsatsiki and spring onion

Spiralised cucumber

Egg and celery

Potato Gnocchi

Low calorie Mayo,

Yum!

Chilled cat

Posted on July 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Animal, Blogging, Box, Cat, Cute, Feline, Happy cat, Life, Photo, Sleeping, Sweet2 Comments

My cat has taken to sleeping in this cardboard box, and I just saw the sign on the side ‘Chill 2/4°C’.

I had to get my camera and take a couple of photos on him. He might not be the cutest cat in the world, but he certainly is the sweetest to me.

He half closes his eyes, and I’m sure he smiles! He finds various places to sleep. This is his favourite place at the moment.

Blurry hedgehog

Posted on July 26, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Eating, Garden visitor, Gardening, Happy, Hedgehog, Late night visitor, Life, Nature, PhotoLeave a comment

Just had his tea. Cat food. I opened the back door to put some food out for the stray cat and this was there. My hubby went out and the smaller one is in the shed. I didn’t disturb it to much, just looked out of the back door.

I love having wild animals visiting. Can’t wait to see if we get Hoglets!

Tree walk?

Posted on July 25, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Flying, Fun, Garden, Humour, Lead figure, Life, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Tiny figure2 Comments

She went for a walk in the trees.

Climbed up the branches to the twigs

Stood on high in airy splendour.

Caught up in crows feet,

She flew up to the chimney.

Stuck there in old mortar.

Then a Magpie saw her.

A short hop to his nest.

Now she’s unpacked

And admiring the gold and pearls

In his gaff.

He’s looking at me

Posted on July 24, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Claws, Fridge, Fun, Humour, Life, Owned, Paws, PhotoLeave a comment

Warning, discussing carnivore thoughts.

You know you are truly owned by a car when it sits on the fridge and stares at you. Where is my cat milk? It seems to say. Is it properly chilled? Not too cold, but just enough to cool the cat on a warm afternoon.

Is there roast chicken in the fridge for him. Delicately flavoured with just the right amount of jelly juices.

You know you are owned when the cat looks down at you, then puts his paw out and catches the shoulder of your tee shirt, claw holding firm and stopping you in your tracks.

If cats could speak what would they say? Probably feed me. Hold me, look after me. Sort out my litter tray, human.

What do we get for this care? Kneeding paws that turn to claws, licked boyyoms then they lick your hand, ew! But you can’t fight those eyes. Those staring eyes.

Pears

Posted on July 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Food, Fruit, Garden, Gardening, Life, Nature, Pears, Photo, Ripe, TreeLeave a comment

This year we have a good crop of pears on the tree again, the tree almost fell over last year because of the weight of the crop. It now has a post unfer the trunk to support it. The pear cro is already ripening with the skin turning slightly yellow.

Our pears are usually quite big, we collect them in September generally, but they might be ready earlier than that.

With pears they are generally unripe, unripe, unripe, unripe, ripe, mushy. They go from being hard to soft virtually overnight. I’m thinking of poaching some of them. Should be nice.

Camouflage

Posted on July 14, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Abandoned, Black and White cats, Blogging, Camouflage, Cats, Family cat, Golden eyes, Life, Lovely, Photo2 Comments

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Cat hiding, but not very well. His eyes give him away. Golden and gleaming. He’s getting well fed and sleeps in the shed. I’m trying to get our own cats inoculated so they can go out in the garden and meet him. I hope they will all get on. Then he will have to go to the vets and be inoculated too. The plan is by winter this abandoned cat will be part of the family. We can’t get anyone else to take him in and he deserves a home. In the meantime he’s having a good life.

Sea or Sky?

Posted on July 13, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, artistic, cloudscape, Dorset, Fun, Images, Imagine, Landscape, Looking, Memories, Photo, Picture, Southern EnglandLeave a comment

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I posted this and other photos to my Instagram page and a friend commented that they looked like views out of an airplane window of the sea with islands in it.

I had concentrated on trying to see animals in the image. I can see a snarling bears head at the top left of this one for instance. But it reminded me of a holiday in Dorset one year. Driving up over the hills of the county, just before we dropped down towards Weymouth on the coast, the sky looked like mountainous islands with sea, bays and inlets running through them. I wish I’d been able to take a photo…

The sky had been a pale wash of pastel colours, the sun was setting, but because we were heading due south its glare was catching the sides of the clouds, they were lit up with gold on one side and greys on the other. The ‘sea’ was all pale pinks and blues. If we had not spent all day driving I would have pulled over. The image faded as we headed towards the caravan site, but it was the precursor of a lovely week away. Maybe I can find some old snaps of the places we visited.

I often look at cloudscapes and see landscapes.

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