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Fiona JoyceCat lover, attempting to manage a jumbled family of felines. When I have the time and energy, I like making things.
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A Cat A Day 2013 #81

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Oh dear oh dear oh dear. I spend several hours a week trying not to laugh at teenaged girls who favour this make-up look.

You know the style; foundation the colour of mud, which stops dead at the jaw-line, but is smeared all over the white shirt collar. This is complemented by pencilled eyebrows of which Leonid Brezhnev would have been proud and a triple-thick layer of Germolene-pink lip-gloss. I am proud to say that I kindly just suppress my smirks and hand them a couple of baby wipes to clean it off.

Isobel explained that she was bored when she got home from school and this is why she experimented with the look I like to call “Isolation Room Year 9”. Milka only got roped in so I could share this with you all via ACAD. Sadly, I think he may have been smeared like a shirt collar during the photo-shoot.

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A Cat A Day 2013 #81

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Oh dear oh dear oh dear. I spend several hours a week trying not to laugh at teenaged girls who favour this make-up look.

You know the style; foundation the colour of mud, which stops dead at the jaw-line, but is smeared all over the white shirt collar. This is complemented by pencilled eyebrows of which Leonid Brezhnev would have been proud and a triple-thick layer of Germolene-pink lip-gloss. I am proud to say that I kindly just suppress my smirks and hand them a couple of baby wipes to clean it off.

Isobel explained that she was bored when she got home from school and this is why she experimented with the look I like to call “Isolation Room Year 9”. Milka only got roped in so I could share this with you all via ACAD. Sadly, I think he may have been smeared like a shirt collar during the photo-shoot.

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A Cat A Day 2013 #78

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May I recommend a book to you?

This is my copy of Jennie, by Paul Gallico, who also wrote the more famous The Snow Goose. This beautiful book has coloured my view of cats ever since I read it as a child.

At the start of the story Paul is run over by a car and loses consciousness. When he comes round he has mysteriously been transformed into a cat. Since he has been a human boy all his life, he doesn’t know how to behave. Luckily, homeless cat Jennie teaches him what to do with his new body. My favourite piece of advice she gives him is, “When in doubt, wash”.

If you observe any cat who is trying to recover its poise after an undignified moment, you will notice that a quick lick of the paw or shoulder solves everything.

Jennie was published in 1950 and my hardback copy seems to have been purchased in Paris.

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A Cat A Day 2013 #73

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ImageI really felt the need of a little creativity tonight as a way of relieving the stress of trying to get my students through their exams. I made a nice lined pencil-case using some fun multi-lingual fabric from my collection. I’ve never made something like this before (my past experiences are of clothing and patchwork quilts). I have signed up to the lovely Craftsy and followed a free class. It was rather fun working with my iPad on the table following the kind and patient American lady as she told me what to do.

Of course, Milka helped.Image