I just came across this and wanted to share it.
Life is settling down again and I hope to be back to more regular blogging although next week I am babysitting my youngest grandchild :-)
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- sacroiliac joint
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- sample
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- school
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- Scotland
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- scrambled
- sculpture
- sea
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- searching
- Sebastian
- second childhood
- seed head
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- shadows
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- shallots
- shampoo
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- sheep
- Sheerness
- Sheila Hancock
- shell beans
- Shell Crisis
- Shelley
- shells
- shepherds
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- shield
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- shopping
- shopping mall
- short rations
- showing
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- shredder
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- shrubs
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- simple things
- simulator
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- skis
- Sky Academy studios
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- SkyWatch Friday Season 4 Episode 42
- SkyWatch Friday Season 4 Episode 43
- sledge
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- sleep
- sleeping
- sleeping puppy
- sleeplessness
- Slimbridge
- slippers
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- slow cooker
- slow lori
- slumber
- small green tomatoes
- small hours
- small white butterfly
- Smile
- smiles
- smoking
- smooth newt
- snail shells
- snap beans
- snapdragon
- sneezing
- Snopes
- snoring
- snow
- snow shovel
- snow socks
- snowdrop
- soaking
- soap
- social intercourse
- socks
- Socrates
- SOE
- soft-boiled
- soft-grip pegs
- solar year
- soldier beetle
- Solomon
- Solomon. Leonard
- Somali kittens
- Somalis
- sombre mood
- Somerset
- Something's gotta give
- Somme
- son
- song
- song thrush
- Sony VAIO
- Sonya
- SOOC
- Sophie Hitchon
- soporific
- souffles
- soup
- soused herrings
- Soused mackerel
- South Africa
- South Bank
- South Kensington
- Southampton Water
- Southern Africa
- Southern Damselfly
- Southern Hawker
- Southern Hemisphere
- Southsea
- Sovereign's Parade
- space
- space travel
- Spain
- spam
- Spanish Flu
- Spanish War of Succession
- sparrow
- Sparrowhawk
- spat
- spearmint
- Specsavers
- speech impediment
- speed camera
- Speedy J
- spelling
- Spencer-Churchill family
- spermatazoa
- spider
- spider webs
- spider's web
- spiderlings
- spiders
- spies
- Spitfire
- Spring
- Spring Bank Holiday
- Spring frog in duckweed
- Spring frogs
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- sprite
- spurs
- square
- squirrel
- squirrels
- SSAFA
- SSSI
- St Andrews
- St Bartholomew massacre 1572
- St David's Day
- St George
- St James'
- St John the Baptist
- St Patrick
- St Valentine's Day
- Stafford Hospital
- stag
- Stag beetle
- stag party
- staggers
- staircase
- stairs
- stalkers
- stalking
- stamens
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- stand and stare
- Stanford in the Vale
- Stanley Holloway
- star tracker
- Stargazer lily
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- Starlings
- starvation
- stationery
- status epilepticus
- steel toe-caps
- step-ladders
- stepladder
- sticklebacks
- stings
- stinking Billy
- stoats
- Stockwell Strangler
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- stonemason
- storm
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- story
- straitjacket
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- street dogs
- stridulate
- strike
- strike wood
- string beans
- stupidity
- stylists
- subliminal messages
- Succinctly Yours
- Sudan
- Sudanese Jihadist Arabs
- Sudoku
- Summer
- summer salad
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- sun
- Sunday 160
- Sunday morning
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- sunflower
- sunflowers
- sunglasses
- sunrise
- sunset
- sunshine
- supergiant
- supermarkets
- supernatural
- supernova
- superstition
- superstitions
- supper
- survival of the fittest
- Susannah
- suspense
- Sussex
- Sussex. Vanessa Bell
- Swan Lake
- swans
- Swansea
- sweating
- sweet chestnuts
- Sweet Pea
- Sweet William
- swimming
- swimming pool
- swimpr player
- swine
- swine flu
- Swing
- Swing Boats
- Swinley Forest
- Swiss Army Knife
- Switzerland
- Sydney
- Sylvia
- Syringa
- syringe
- tadpoles
- tagetes
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- tagging
- talented
- tales
- talking
- talking dog
- Talli Roland
- tan
- tankard
- tapestry
- tarantula
- targe
- Tate Britain
- tax form
- tax return
- TB
- Tea
- Tea Cups
- tea party
- teacher
- teachers
- teaching
- team building
- teapot
- technology
- Ted
- Teddy Bears
- teenagers
- teeth
- teething
- telepathy
- telephone
- telephone customer advisors
- television
- Temperley
- temptation
- tennis
- TENS
- terminal skin cancer
- terrapins
- terrier
- Tertiary period
- TES
- Tesco
- tessellation
- tester pots
- tethera
- textile mills
- texting
- texts
- Thabo Mbeki
- Thames Basin Special Protection Area
- Thasos
- That's My World
- the apple
- The Bride
- The Dog Days of My Life
- the dole
- The Doors
- The Great War
- The Language of the Roses
- The Mudlarks
- The Mum Test
- The Pearl Bush
- The Railway Series
- The Simple Woman's Daybook
- The Singing Postman
- The Soldiers' Battle
- The Sweets and the Bitters of Love
- the Thief of Time
- the Twist
- The Water Babies
- Theakston
- There was a crooked man . . .
- Thibie
- Thickthorn
- thieving
- Thimbleflower
- third anniversary
- thistle
- Thomas Joseph
- Thomas Morley
- Thomas Seymour
- Thomas the Tank Engine
- Thornton's
- Threat levels
- threatening skies
- Three Kings
- Threevalleys
- Threevalleys Gundogs
- Threevalleys Prince Rupert
- thriller
- throwing the hammer
- thrum
- thrush
- Thumbelina carrots
- thumbs
- thunder
- Thursday Tales
- Tia
- ticks
- tidying
- tiling
- Time
- time flies
- time out
- time-out
- tin
- Tinker Bell
- titmice
- Toad
- toadstools
- toasting fork
- Today's Flowers
- Today's Flowers #49
- Today's Flowers #50
- Today's Flowers #51
- Today's Flowers #54
- Today's Flowers #57
- Today's Flowers #60
- Today's Flowers #63
- Today's Flowers #66
- Today's Flowers #68
- Today's Flowers #70
- Today's Flowers #71 December 2009
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- Today's Flowers #75
- Today's Flowers #77
- Today's Flowers #80
- Today's Flowers #90
- Today's Flowers #91
- Today's Flowers #92
- Today's Flowers #93
- Today's Flowers #94
- Today's Flowers #95
- Today's Flowers #96
- Todays Flowers
- Todays Flowers #76
- Todays Flowers #86
- toddler
- toes
- Togetherness
- Tolstoy
- Tom Tom
- tomato
- tomato flowers
- tomato soup
- Tommy Cooper
- Tommy Handley
- Tonga
- Tony Blair
- too early
- Top Gun
- Top Secret
- Topknot
- torment
- tormentil
- Tornado
- Tornadoes
- Toronto
- torsion
- Tory leadership
- Toshiba
- total knee replacement
- toucans
- touch typing
- touch-typing
- Tour de France
- Tower of London
- toy
- tracking
- tradehttp://sundayscribblings.blogspot.com/
- Trafalgar
- traffic police
- trail bikes
- train
- train sets
- Trametes versicolor
- trapping and neutering programme
- treason
- treats
- trees
- Treo
- Trevor
- tribulations of life
- triskaidekaphobia
- trivia
- Trooping the Colour
- trousers
- trout
- Tschiffely
- Tschiffely's Ride
- tuberculosis
- Tudor rose
- Tuley tubes
- tulip
- tulips
- tumble dryer
- turbo seal
- Turdus iliacus
- Turner Prize
- Turtle mats
- Tuscany
- tush it
- tweet
- Twelfth Night
- Twelve days of Christmas
- Twickenham
- Twinkle
- Two in Tandem
- two minute silence
- Two Shoes Tuesday
- two years
- Tylney Hall
- type-casting
- typewriter
- Uffington
- UGLE
- UK
- UK hospitals
- ultra-violet
- ultraviolet
- Ulundi
- umbels
- umbilical hernia
- umbilicus
- umbrella
- Underneath the spreading chestnut tree
- underpants
- unfortunate quotations
- unicorn
- uniform
- uniforms
- Union Carbide
- Union Flag
- United Kingdom
- Unites Dates
- universities
- University of Plymouth
- untidiness
- unusual visitor
- Up
- update
- Urdu
- urine
- US
- USA
- USA hospitals
- USS New York
- UTI
- uveitis
- uvula
- V
- vaccinations
- Vale of White Horse
- Valerie Martin
- Valette
- Van Gogh
- Vancouver
- Vanguard
- vapour trail
- Vapourer Moth
- Vaseline
- VE Day
- VE Day 65th anniversary
- vectors
- vegetarian
- Velcro
- velcro dog
- verb
- verbena
- vermin
- veronica
- vertebrates
- vervain
- vet
- vet Patrycja
- vets
- Victoria Cross
- video camera
- video upload
- Viet Cong
- Vietnam
- village
- village hops
- Villars
- Vimy Ridge
- vinaigrette
- Vine Weevil
- viola
- violet
- violets
- Violette Szabo
- Virgin Mary
- virus
- visiting cat
- visitors
- Visual Fields
- Vitamin D
- vitreous gel
- vixen
- vocabulary
- volleyball
- vomeronasal organ
- voters
- vultures
- W C Minor
- W homing pigeon
- W. H. Auden
- W. H. Davies
- wake
- Walbury Hill
- Wales
- Walking
- walks
- Walkstool
- Wall Brown
- Walter
- Walter de la Mare
- Waltz Wave Form
- Warm Welcome
- warning
- warnings
- warrant officer
- warranty
- warranty failure
- Wars of the Roses
- Washakie
- Washakie Lord of the Rings
- washing
- washing machine
- washing machines
- washing the floor
- washing up
- water
- Waterloo Station
- waxing moon
- waxwings
- Wayland's Smithy
- Wayside and Woodland Fungi
- Weald
- weasels
- weather
- weathering
- web
- wedding
- Wedding Anniversary
- wedding day
- wedding processional
- wedding ring cushion
- Wednesday's Words on a Friday
- Weekend
- Weekend Mailbox #2
- Weekend Mailbox #3
- Weekend Mailbox #4
- Weekend Mailbox #5
- Weekend Mailbox #7
- Weekend Mailbox #8
- Weekend Reflections
- Weekend Reflections #37
- Weekend Reflections #38
- Weekend Wordsmith
- Wellington
- Wellington College
- Welsh Guards
- Westbury
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- whales
- What is it?
- whirligig
- whiskers
- Whisky
- white
- White Ensign
- White Horse
- white lies
- white onions
- White Rabbit
- White Rose
- white starling
- White-lipped snail
- Whitehall 1212
- whittling
- whooping cough
- Whoops
- Wicca
- Widgery Tribunal. Northern Ireland
- wife
- Wikipedia
- wild animals
- wild creature
- wild rocket
- Wild Wooders
- Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust
- wildlife accidents
- Wildmoor Heath
- Will
- William Duke of Cumberland
- William F Longgood
- William Shakespeare
- William the Conqueror
- Willow Beauty
- willow pattern
- Wimbledon
- Winchester
- Winchester Cathedral
- wind vane
- Windflower
- Windings
- window impact
- Windsor Forest
- Winston
- winter
- Winter Moon
- Winter Olympics 2010
- Winter Solstice
- wisdom
- Wise Men
- Wokingham
- Wokingham Rocks
- Wolf Moon
- wolf whistle
- Wolfe
- Wolfhounds
- Wonderbra
- wood pigeon
- wood pigeons
- wood-burning stove
- woodlark
- woodpigeon
- word for today
- word play
- word verification
- Wordless Wednesday
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- work
- workbench
- workhouse
- working Cocker spaniel
- Working Labrador
- World War 11
- World Wide Web
- worry
- WOs
- wren
- wrinkles. vanity
- writing
- writing prompt
- wrong connections
- WTC
- WW2
- WWI
- WWII
- X
- x-ray
- x-rays
- Xanthe
- Xanthippe
- Xanthosoma
- Xhosa
- Xmas tree
- yachting
- yachts
- Yaffle
- Yakkay
- Yaktrax
- Yan
- Yardley
- ye. Robert Herrick
- yellow
- yellow archangel
- yellow Guzmania
- yellow-necked mouse
- yew
- Ying Tong Song
- Yiota
- yobs
- Yolanda Adams
- Yorkshire
- Yorkshire Ripper
- young birds
- YouTube
- Ypres
- Yuan dynasty
- Z Batteries
- Zarathustra
- zayin
- zed
- Zephirine Drouhin
- zephyr
- zeta
- zonal pelargonium
- Zong Massacre
- zoo
- Zoot Suit Riots
- Zoot Suits
- Zoroaster
- Zula
- Zulu War
- Zulus
Friday, 26 July 2013
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Bureaucracy or The Right Hand Doesn't Know What The Left Hand's Doing
My husband had occasion to seek advice from HM Revenue and
Customs this morning. He phoned the help
desk and explained the problem, viz, his late mother’s estate (she died in
March this year) was being handled by his brother who died suddenly on
Saturday. Probate had been granted but administration of the estate had not
been completed. Barry’s sister-in-law told Barry she had been informed she
would have to take over probate.
The help desk told Barry that was nonsense and he, as next of
kin, would be responsible and he should apply for a second grant of probate.
Barry then checked with Winchester, the office that granted probate, and was
told that his sister-in-law would definitely be responsible for probate, along
with her deceased husband’s estate.
Barry checked with the help desk again and the man he spoke to
consulted three of his senior colleagues who insisted that their advice was right.
A further phone call to Winchester resulted in three managers confirming that
the advice they were giving was accurate. Back to the help desk who maintained their
position but advised him to get legal advice (!!) but also said that as
Winchester was responsible for granting probate he’d better accept their advice
as they would be dealing with it.
Everyone Barry spoke to was helpful and polite but why was
there so much disagreement between them? Finally, Barry phoned the principal Registry
in London and The Winchester office’s advice was confirmed as correct.
Fortunately, Barry and his sister-in-law get on well together
and there is no conflict of interest or argument about the disposal of his late
mother’s estate.
Help desks should help, not confuse. There needs to be
clarification in training so that all parties are giving the same advice.
Labels:
HMRC,
London,
probate,
Winchester
Thursday, 4 July 2013
Slow Down!
Slow
Down!
Festival of Britain, 1951
I have always spoken quickly, words tumbling out of my mouth
in their rush to get away from me. Even in the classroom I was aware that I was
speaking too fast and tried to moderate the speed, without success. Add to that
my clipped delivery and fairly quiet voice and you may understand that most
people have difficulty hearing what I’m saying. (Naturally, when I was teaching, I ensured that my voice was loud
enough to be heard – sometimes very loud. I can project very well when required
to do so.)
As an example, this is what my writing looks like these days
before I correct it . . . I hace alwysa spoeken qycjkty, words tumblins our of
my nmuth in th r rush to gwe awat form me.
Lincolnshire, 1964
Of course, it may just be my poor touch-typing but it is a
fact that it is getting progressively worse. It would appear that the less I speak
the more my fingers tangle in the keys and produce gobbledegook. When I stopped
going out to work (I refused to say I had
retired, such vanity! I was not of retirement age and did not wish to be
considered OLD) I relished the prospect of not having to talk all day and
now I am almost monosyllabic. (You must
allow for exaggeration here!)
Now, when required to conduct some sort of social interaction I
often fumble for words, desperate to respond intelligibly and not in an ELDERLY fashion and then I see myself as
youngsters see me – past it, bless her. It happened the other day when I went
to the hospital to have my eyes dealt with (Visual
Fields, don’t you know – all those flashing lights, a patch over one eye and
then the other and the buzzer in my hand. I’m sure you know the form: ’Press the buzzer when you see the white light,
keep your eye on the orange light in the centre, don’t search for the white
light,’ with the result that I
frantically press the buzzer, afraid I might miss one of the spots or think
back and realise I have missed one. I
listen to the buzzers all around me and hear the ophthalmologist explaining
patiently to others what they must do and tell myself to concentrate.)
Both eyes having been tested the pleasant young woman (very young . . . how old could she be? Surely
not old enough to be doing this job?) asked me, as she had asked every
other person, ‘Have you any other appointments today?’ (What did she think? Was I going to have my mental acuity tested or a
prosthetic limb fixed?) and that’s when my quick-wittedness came to my aid
as I mumbled, ‘No,’ and she said lightly, ‘Oh, another one with no other
appointments so you’re free to go now,’ which is when I compounded my
elderliness by saying, ‘I’ve got another appointment on July 22nd,’
thus proving that my memory is not quite shot yet. I wanted to stride out of
the room in a parody of youthful energy but my bag strap was stuck under the
chair and as I fumbled to free it she came to my aid and picked it up for me. I
think she was quite surprised at the weight of it. She didn’t exactly grunt as
she lifted it, but I had the impression of renewed respect.
As for stepping out
smartly, that was never going to happen. For two months I had sciatica which
dissipated to be replaced by pain in my hips (one or other, sometimes both), the result of walking badly because
of the sciatica *sigh*. After I’ve
been sitting for a while I stiffen and it takes a while to unbend and so I
hobbled out, pride not quite intact, thus completing the image of a poor old dear.
Who was it said, ‘Would that we could see ourselves as others
see us’?* I’d rather not, thank you. It’s enough of a shock to encounter myself
in the mirror and too off-putting to realise that a young slip of a lad or lass
is looking at me unable, or unwilling, to understand that one day they too will
be old(er).
*I cannot let pass a quotation without checking it to make
sure I have it correct. (Is this another
instance of impending – or ongoing – decrepitude? Or OCD?) In this case, I
didn’t . . . have it correct, that is. I
paraphrased the immortal words of Robert Burns, Rabbie to his familiars:-
O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion.
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion.
Robert Burns, The Complete Poetical Works of Robert
Burns
Blandford, 2013
Labels:
age,
Blandford,
eyes,
Festival of Britain,
Lincolnshire,
Robert Burns,
sciatica,
touch-typing,
Visual Fields
Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Words for Wednesday
Words for
Wednesday
Delores
from ‘The Feathered Nest’ offers six words as a writing prompt – recalcitrant,
fangs, dithering, glassy, rodeo, wet. Why not visit her and see what other
writing has been prompted?
It was summer and the season of school fayres and community fêtes
with every group hoping to raise funds. In a bid to appeal to a wider audience
the local church had decided to rename their Flower Festival the Floral Rodeo. People came out of curiosity, hoping for prancing
stallions in the aisles but found instead dithering officials
apologising for any disappointment they had caused. Recalcitrant
children, dragged along by their parents, bared their fangs in a semblance of good humour as a rather wet young curate tried to engage them in conversation.
Glassy-eyed visitors, anxious to escape his enthusiastic
exhortations to join the congregation, gladly donated substantial amounts of
loose change to the church restoration fund and gratefully made their exit to
the cool air of an English summer.
Labels:
fetes,
Summer,
Words for Wednesday
Tuesday, 2 July 2013
The Entropy Gang's July blog (formerly Conservatory Cats' Chats)
The
Entropy Gang’s July blog (formerly Conservatory Cats’ Chats)
Isambard, Bertie, Jellicoe and Herschel
Herschel: Since last we wrote some
interesting things have occurred.
Isambard: First we all went to spend
a day with the Vet servants. I was much happier this time because my brothers
came with me.
Jellicoe: The Vet servants’ nurse who greeted us was
really excited.
Herschel: She had never seen Ocicats
before so we were met with great enthusiasm.
Isambard: We were taken into another
room but we don’t really know what happened next.
Jellicoe: Don’t you remember? We were each given an
injection and then we fell asleep.
Herschel: When we woke up we felt
that something was missing but we didn’t quite know what.
Isambard, Herschel and Jellicoe on the cat tree
Isambard: We all had something we
didn’t have before – transparent collars. We couldn’t get them off even though
we tried.
Jellicoe: We were pleased when The Thinker and The Maid
came to take us home. They thought we were going to be quiet. I don’t know why.
Herschel: We were so pleased to be
out of the little pens we had been kept in at the Vets that we charged all over
the house.
Isambard: The collars made a
screeching noise as they scraped along the floor and it was difficult to groom
ourselves. They got rather a lot of food in them, too.
Jellicoe: We had to go back to the Vets to be checked and
then at last The Thinker and The Maid took the collars off and we were free
again.
Herschel: Since then I have been into
the GARDEN three times. I wasn’t supposed to because the special fence isn’t in
place yet.
Isambard: The THINKER and The MAID
have had to wait while their next-door neighbours had a new fence put up. It
looks very smart.
Jellicoe: The DOGS didn’t like it because the men had to
come into our GARDEN and they barked. Then BERTIE realised that next-door’s GARDEN
was open and he could go in it. He liked that.
Herschel: We have plenty of room to
play in the house. We can climb very high.
Herschel and Jellicoe
Isambard: We’ve all been on top of
the kitchen cupboards . . .
Jellicoe and Herschel
Jellicoe: . . . and the grandfather clock . . .
Herschel
Jellicoe
Herschel: . . . and we like climbing
the wire mesh door that allows fresh air into the sitting room but doesn’t let
us out.
Isambard
Herschel (and Bertie)
Isambard: The THINKER and The MAID say they’re going to move the bird
feeder. They think we might catch the birds.
Jellicoe: We can catch flies and spiders but they’re much
smaller.
Herschel: Some of the birds are quite
small but the black and white birds (editor’s
note: Magpies) and the heavy grey ones (editor’s note: wood pigeons) are too big for us.
Isambard: We could work together –
we’re good at that.
Jellicoe: For example, we know how to open doors but we
can’t quite manage it yet. We keep trying, though.
Herschel: In the mornings, as soon as
we hear any movement from the BEDROOM where The THINKER and The MAID and the
DOGS sleep we start miaouing and scratching at the door. Isambard is the first
to start and he tries to push the door handle down to open the door.
Isambard: I jump down on it from the
chest of drawers.
Jellicoe: Eventually we are allowed into the BEDROOM and
we purr very loudly for a very long time and then we settle down on the bed and
go to sleep.
Herschel: We’ve discovered a new
game. One of us hides, one of us stays with The THINKER and The MAID and one of
us goes upstairs.
Isambard: I usually stay downstairs with
the Servants and Jellicoe goes upstairs while Herschel hides.
Jellicoe: After a while I start to cry and that alarms
the Servants. They’re always relieved when they see me so then I go upstairs
again and miaou.
Herschel: That’s when the Servants
freak out. They know where Jellicoe and Isambard are but they realise they
haven’t seen me. They hunt everywhere for me, even in the places I’ve never
been. Then one of them sees me in the cat tree. I’m usually asleep by the time
they find me. It’s fun to play hide and seek but it can get rather boring.
Isambard: We are still creating entropy.
Yesterday we knocked a casserole dish off the top of the cupboard and broke it.
The bits went everywhere. The MAID had to use the vacuum cleaner and that made
GUS shiver and shake – silly DOG.
Jellicoe, Isambard and Herschel
Jellicoe: Time for a zizz now – I hope next time we can
show you some photographs of us in the GARDEN. We’re really looking forward to exploring
OUTDOORS.
We are linking to Gattina's Cats on Tuesday
We are linking to Gattina's Cats on Tuesday
Labels:
Bertie,
Entropy Gang. Herschel,
Gus,
Isambard,
Jellicoe
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