If you are very lucky, you can distract a cat while it’s washing itself and it will forget to put its tongue back in its mouth. You have to be quick with the camera though, or you’ll miss it.
Category Archives: Milka
A Cat A Day 2013 #97
I put a chocolate box ribbon bow on Milka and he didn’t turn a hair. In fact, he just fell asleep.
A Cat A Day 2013 #96
Wriggling in the sunshine. I wanted to upload a video, but it turns out that it costs $59.97 p/a to upgrade to a suitable account on WordPress. Disappointing, because I had been 100% happy so far.
A Cat A Day 2013 #95
Today has been a 1970’s day at our house. I worry during the holidays, because it becomes obvious how dependent my children are on the television and the internet. I do believe that children need to learn to deal with boredom, so I usually impose a tech-ban for one or two days a week. We are all only allowed to use technology which existed in the 1970’s, when I myself was a child.
In this way, I can do the washing, listen to the radio and use my sewing machine. The children are allowed to read, play outside, use the landline telephone, draw and squabble. No television, because there was nothing on in the daytime during my childhood. They both hate it, but I persist. Ted grumbled, groaned, made a mess with his Lego then played outside. Isobel slept late, read, took a phone call from a friend and then walked for miles to meet her at the park.
To complete the picture, we had Heinz tinned tomato soup and cheese sandwiches for lunch.
I kept busy with my quilt for a little boy and Milka tried to help. In this picture he had fallen asleep in a patch of sunlight and I had just woken him up.
A Cat A Day 2013 #92
Self-portrait with very affectionate cat.
A Cat A Day 2013 #91
I have been struggling with a cold since Friday. When I haven’t been drama-queening it in bed, I have been moaning and groaning on the sofa under my Tesco electric throw.
Of course, Milka loves it and stretches out with total abandon on my lap.
A Cat A Day 2013 #88
Milka likes watching sport on television. A green background with balls against it instantly appeals to him. It’s sweet watching him try to find the balls behind the screen.
A Cat A Day 2013 #84
When he first arrived, Milka’s tail was a skinny little piece of string. It is longer and stronger now and becomes more stripy by the day.
A Cat A Day 2013 #81
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.
A Cat A Day 2013 #81
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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