I have a fab collection of kitty pics ready to post, but this little fella keeps barging his way to the front of the queue. Am marking (again); tonight it’s RE books. Milka discovered that I am sitting under my new electric heated throw. This picture illustrates the inevitable consequence.
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Rather weedily, I am already worn out after one day at school this week. Here is Florence sitting next to me as I prepared to go to sleep last night.
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I have been working all weekend and I don’t think I have done half of what there is to do. I’m sure I’m going wrong somewhere. Earlier, in order to cheer me up, my friend Alex sent me this picture of his daft cat Skimbleshanks determinedly squashing himself into a shoebox. It worked Alex, thank you!
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Milka reached the top of our bedroom curtains this morning. The best part was watching him come down again in reverse.
Other cats are available.
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Milka scaling the curtains, moving so fast he’s a blur.
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Amanda was of my best friends at school and we spent a lot of teenage growing-up time together. We sang duets in school concerts, cooked meals and had masses of sleepovers. Her older brother taught me to love Elvis Costello (My Aim Is True-era), her mum always made me welcome and her dad was the coolest one I knew; he rode a motorbike.
At 16, our paths diverged and eventually we lost touch. Twenty years on, we found each other again through Facebook. Amanda lives in London now, her two children are a similar age to mine and she makes a living using her wonderful gift for music, particularly her voice. We haven’t seen each other for a while, but it doesn’t matter; the link has been remade and it makes me very happy.
Today’s guest cat is Amanda’s. He was just a baby at the time of this photograph and rejoices in the brilliant name of Mr Weasley. I just love it!
Thanks Amanda and let’s remember to get together again before too long x
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You may be sceptical, but I honestly don’t plan for Milka to feature in 99% of my blogposts. I put the call out to my Twitter friends asking for guest contributions and have received lots of kind responses. Among them was a veritable avalanche of photographs from the generous @nicky_doubleU.
I know nothing about these two cats, but I really like how they have both tucked their front paws so neatly through the railings. I’m also impressed by the intensity of the hard stares they are giving the camera.
Thank you Nicky!
Update: These two are mother and daughter; Parda the mum is on the right and her daughter is Lili. Nicky rescued them when their owner was ill and sadly later died. They do appear to be queens of all they survey, don’t they?
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I have lots of lovely guest cat pictures ready to share, but they will just have to wait, because I finally caught a little video of Milka playing. It meets my most important criterion of not showing any of my chaotic house in the background. I like to maintain a façade of having a clean, tidy, organised home, which I imagine everyone has except me.
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Milka is very alert just now, because John has been playing with him. If you get him excited enough, Milka takes off vertically like a Harrier Jump Jet. I can never seem to catch it on video, however. Must keep trying.
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This gorgeous girl is called Shadow. She belongs to the Grandma of one of my Y9 French students, who was kind enough to share her photograph with me. Shadow is shy, but she is also a cuddle cat who enjoys sitting on people’s laps and purring. The photograph itself is really beautiful, I think.
Watch out for handsome Foxy, who will appear soon.
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