We're working pretty hard here on providing cuteness to the world. ;o) We used to have mainly blackbirds visiting our back yard but when I put up the birdfeeder the sparrows got the idea that hanging out at Jane's place was worthwhile (despite the dangers of the Evil White Cats ( Read more... )

The hedgehogs in the garden are starting to eat up large ready for their hibernation. In the New Zealand (and the local) climate they don't have a very serious hibernation ... if it's warm for a while they'll wake up and forage for food, but they certainly have long sleeps over winter ( Read more... )

After spending thousands on clothes at one particular shop ... and not wearing a single thing I bought more than once (and most not at all) I finally cracked it with a wonderful tunic top in purple. Then the next season they had the very same top in another colour, something that's not their usual thing. Naturally I bought that too. And then ( Read more... )

I know I've been whining a bit about the early arrival of autumn/winter but though it was 4 degrees C overnight it is a lovely clear, bright day today and I took some photos of the views we see on our walk along the river bank.

Yesterday I walked the route in the other direction and though the walk much more pleasant.

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I went a different route on my walk today and as I turned into the main street outside our little 'court' I saw a white-bodied, brown-legged cat crossing the road up ahead ( Read more... )

Books Bought = 11 : Books Read = 18

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Adina, Shelley ~ Lady of Resources, A ~ 2013 ~ B ~ Keeping (ebook)
Magnificent Devices 05 ~ Children's ~ Fantasy, Steampunk

Dunn, Carola ~ Lord Roworth's Reward ~ 1992 ~ B
Rothschild Trilogy 02 ~ Romance ~ Historical (UK)

Dunn, Carola ~ Captain's Inheritance, The ~ 1992 ~ BRothschild Trilogy 03 ~ ( Read more... )

Autumn is here. I'm not a big fan of the season start dates which says that atumn starts on the 1 March, but this year there's been very little summer (apart from a bit of a mini heat wave a week ago) and how it's autumn. No mucking around - straight into it ( Read more... )

Went to see one of the cat club's life members yesterday as I'm doing up a booklet on the club history for the upcoming 60th Jubilee show. As well as lots of photos of days gone by (and cats gone by) there was a queen there with some young kittens. I'm not a particular fan of (a) kittens or (b) British Shorthair as a breed but these were so ( Read more... )

I have a long-term plan of reducing my commitments to clubs and groups and the moment I finished my term on one committee at the end of last year I immediately signed up for the PawPeds G1 course (six-week online course about cats). Wouldn't want to actually enjoy my free time, would I ( Read more... )

I'm not sure when we started looking at river cruising but sometime after Gary made a comment in an email to his sister-in-law that we were looking at going on a cruise. This was news to me - in a good way. The problems we had previously identified with holidaying on a cruise was that (a) no baggage limit in the world would be large enough to ( Read more... )