Today would have been Max’s nineteenth birthday. Two years ago today he and I walked up the garden together. He leapt up onto the raised beds, followed me around and ran back down the garden with his tail straight up in sheer joy. He hasn’t made it to nineteen. I left a lantern burning overContinue reading “For Max”
Tag Archives: Cats
Breaking the silence
I haven’t posted for a long time. I haven’t had the heart for it. We had a three-week pause in April to stay away from crowded museums and beaches during the school holidays, and just as we were plotting a return to days out, our youngest cat was killed on the road. Just like herContinue reading “Breaking the silence”
Happy Start to a New Year
Between wishing a Happy New Year to our lovely neighbours, enjoying the fireworks and staying up to finish our glasses of fizz, we got to bed – very early this morning. And woke late. But we did get outside, on a sunny and warm day that has outclassed every day since October 2021 began. MaxContinue reading “Happy Start to a New Year”
Didn’t It Rain
The weather forecast for our area continues to promise temperatures above the average for autumn with the chance of an odd shower, and the skies are still emptying their bladders on our roof for hours at a time. It’s been raining on and off all day, and is still raining hard now. Appropriate, then, thatContinue reading “Didn’t It Rain”
He loves us… he loves us not.
Up early to take Max for his annual MOT and booster jabs. There’s been talk of animal vaccination supplies – especially cat vaccinations – suffering a shortfall. Priority is being given to first-time vaccinations, so some adult cats are having their boosters cancelled. I think Max would have preferred that. Instead he got taken intoContinue reading “He loves us… he loves us not.”
Be more Cat
So, we had a pair of catloving friends over to stay recently. They were looking forward to meeting Max, and we wanted Max to become used to having new people in the house. They arrived and greeted him. He took to them. Boy did he take to them… We lost him there, for a while.Continue reading “Be more Cat”
In Praise of Elderly Cats
He was a street cat, rescued as a kitten on his insistence and cared for all of his life. He was sixteen when his owner died, and unlikely to be at the top of the list in any rescue centre. People want kittens. I don’t blame them. Kittens are cute. Then again, Max is prettyContinue reading “In Praise of Elderly Cats”
The Silence
Image of tortoiseshell cat by Didi S, Pixabay We’ve woken every morning for the last six months to our young tom’s call to the breakfast bowl – a kind of rusty hinge squawk some mornings, a sudden loud “AWWWW!” on others. This morning, we woke when the sun came round to our window. It’s smallContinue reading “The Silence”
Life hands you lemons. Unripe ones.
Picture by Eduardo Viera, Pixabay This time yesterday, we had three cats; an elderly tabby female and a pair of youngsters just growing up to be adult cats. They’d negotiated their spaces in the house and everyone got along with everyone else. The tom was starting to show signs of preferring to sit with myContinue reading “Life hands you lemons. Unripe ones.”
Julia Chalkley 