Happy New Year

[liadnan]

And how better to start it than by some gratuitous cat-blogging?

Campion and Gertrude sunning themselves by the chapel this morning.

Gertrude sensibly by the door.

And Campion... how the hell...

(Somewhat to my surprise Campion managed to get down with a minimum of fuss. Note also our Narnia lamp.)

In other news I am skint, my tax return and payment is in at the end of the month, there's some wedding or other to pay for, I have an ear infection and generally feel like crap and I have a trial next week.

But hey, I have cats and a Pashazade to keep me company, and the lunatic woman bought me the Folio reprint of the Eric Gill* and Golden Cockerel Press Four Gospels for Christmas, so it's far from all bad.

*"highly erotic ... eccentric", well, that's one way of putting it.

Comments

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I'm very impressed by Campion's free-climbing skills...

[liadnan]

Thing is, that is far from a deep window ledge, only a couple of inches where it meets the window frame.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

One of my cats was nicknamed "Katie the Squirrel-Cat" for her tree climbing experiments, and another was able to leap seven feet and pass through an open transom with barely a whisper.

How are they on chimney climbing? Watching Anna disappear into the fireplace of my last flat was not a good moment...

[liadnan]

Fortunately our chimneys are blocked...

[pashazade.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!

I think I am having a retrospective panic.

[liadnan]

He was fine, really. Turned without incident rather than trying G's reversing trick.

[pashazade.livejournal.com]

So long as he doesn't try Gertrude's falling off ledges sideways trick.

[cybik.livejournal.com]

See, I know that cats can fall from extremely high places and be fine, but there's still a bit of me that thinks "eep!" when I see cats up high.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Remind me not to tell you how one of my cats (when I had cats) managed to fall from a second floor window. He was fine. We weren't!

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

Cats do have a teleport function, they just don't use it in public.

[pashazade.livejournal.com]

"*"highly erotic ... eccentric", well, that's one way of putting it."

Tempted to ask whether this refers to the Gospels or the giver.

[liadnan]

Well, it was a quote about Gill himself, but...

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

The Eric Gill is an amazing present. He was a very strange bloke, though.

[cybik.livejournal.com]

Campion's a very impressive cat! Getrude is much wiser, though..

Hope you feel better soon.

[pashazade.livejournal.com]

Gertrude has taken to becoming so excited by the prospect of a tummy-rub that she rolls over when on the edge of the bed. I have now caught her three times.

Campion is proportionately more confused by life, though.

[deililly.livejournal.com]

For a second there I was blearily wondering if Campion had somehow flew in a feline way from the top of the Narnia lamp to the world of the windowsill.

Mind you, knowing cats...