So. Cat. Yes.

Previously on cam_sin, we were expecting the arrival of one cat, slightly used. This took rather longer than expected as the feline in question was at the time - as mirien might put it - "doing a Finn". This apparently was his regular and accustomed lifestyle - disappear for a week or so, turn up for food and nap, then off again to ( Read more... )

I have ignored it for as long as I can. Donned my polarised, wrap-around, Do-Not-Want spectacles, sung "La la la!" in a loud and irritatingly off-key manner and successfully banished all trace of it from every corner of my conscious mind*, but I can put it off no longer. I must acknowledge its existence, for it is creeping up on me as inexorably ( Read more... )

We're getting a new cat. Okay, not a new cat, more of a second-hand cat. One previous owner - the wife of one of The Husband's workmates, who died unexpectedly a few months ago, leaving the cat surplus to requirements. The Husband has been casually mentioning this cat and its fringe benefits ("...comes with its own cat-feeder") for weeks, and I ( Read more... )

It's summer, so I am making Summer Pudding ( Read more... )

If the amount of water collected in the decorative green glass suspended tea-light holders is anything to go by, there must have been about three inches of rain today, with temperatures fluttering bracingly around the 13C region ( Read more... )

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The Husband is offshore* and The Daughter is in Edinburgh sorting our her new pad for next year. No 1 son spends most of the day in bed, so I have had the house mostly to myself all weekend, and in theory I could have been wildly productive and done lots of things, but in practice I have vegetated in my chair and looked at frocks on Ebay. Heigh ( Read more... )

1 When the universe sends you horizontal rain, a thunderstorm, a refillable lighter than is out of gas and won't refill and a bag of self-lighting barbecue charcoal that goes out after two minutes, it really doesn't want you to have a barbecue ( Read more... )

White Cat found a hat that needed sitting in. Because somecatone had to do it! Hats don't sit in themselves you know!


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Forget the Oscars, it's time for the prestigious Shit Software Of The Year award. Competition has been fierce, but we have a worthy winner! First, though, the traditional pseudo-suspense of announcing the runners up...

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