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And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges

Most people in the UK took down their Christmas decorations at the start of this week. However, our tree is still up because it’s not being collected from the rental company until Sunday; somehow it seems silly to take off all the decorations and just leave a bare tree in the living room for a week.

Rodan helps with the putting-away.

Cat Daddy: “But it’s bad luck to keep decorations up. Look at what happened last year.”

Erm, except that, last year, we took them down on the correct day. If we can have such a shit circus of a year despite playing by the rules, I can’t imagine things getting much worse if we don’t. Plus we do fate-tempting things all the time in this house, such as spilling salt, breaking mirrors and having a black cat cross our path repeatedly, multiple times a day.

I guess only time will tell whether the bad luck catches up with us at some point. 

Or maybe, just maybe, Louis Catorze is it? 

Make yourself comfortable on MY special post-operative pillow. I’ll just contort my body around you like a broken pretzel.

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19 responses to “And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges”

  1. mcmcneil1 avatar
    mcmcneil1

    You RENT your tree ? Hmmm. Intersting. Is it a real tree that they take back and plant somewhere ? How does that work ?

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Yes, that’s right. It’s a living tree in a pot which is returned and then planted back out. This is the company that we use: https://www.christmasonthehill.co.uk

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      1. mcmcneil1 avatar
        mcmcneil1

        THAT is a real way of doing some conservation ! Wonder if there are any such services in the US ?

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          There are downsides though: you don’t get much (if any) choice in terms of when they’ll deliver or collect. They only offered one date for our post code area and we had to like it or lump it. And the trees are only allowed to be indoors for a limited time so it’s unlikely you’ll find anyone who will deliver in early December and then collect on Twelfth Night.

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  2. Kate Crimmins avatar
    Kate Crimmins

    Maybe you need a bigger pillow.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      He often shares it with me when I use it!

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      1. Kate Crimmins avatar
        Kate Crimmins

        So it’s really his pillow!

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          I think it is now!

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  3. Lou Carreras avatar
    Lou Carreras

    We have a few of the donut pillows left tover from my hip surgery. Our cats love them too. They sit in the hollow and dare you to move them.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Catorze loves it! He thinks we bought it just for him.

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  4. cat9984 avatar
    cat9984

    Louie is looking rather territorial with your pillow. Is Rodan a bit fluffier than him?

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      I think Rodan is just bigger generally, despite only being a year old!

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  5. Penny Cooper avatar
    Penny Cooper

    To me seeing a black cat is the best luck especially if it crosses my path even only once, it’s an absolute joy to see any cat, black ones being at the top of that list!! And my Dec’s were down on the 5th, I started the new year continuing with a dreaded lurgy from Christmas day right through new year to the weekend. Then Monday 6th being the day I really felt improvement was the first day of 2 1/2 days of carbs only, definitely no veg or fruit. Well you can keep the veg and the fruit but for the last 6 months I have had a naked salad leaf craving to beat all craving, bordering on a fetish I’d say, so going from Sunday night until Wednesday 1pm with NO salad and then from 1pm Wednesday until Thursday evening after a colonoscopy with zero food doesn’t seem like 2025 is being very friendly. Plus last night I had a teeny weeny leaf go in my ear, well I didn’t know it was that at the time, it felt more like the ‘thing’ sloped off further into my ear, so spent the night with what I thought was a living being deep in my ear, called the doctor today and got an emergency appointment with a nurse to take a look, went to take Merlot for a walk before my appointment only to have a neighbour and a carer tell me I had a totally flat tyre, begged a neighbour to take me to the doctors and she spent an hour sitting in her car waiting for me. The result was it must have been the leaf because there’s nothing in my ear except for it being quite red where I dug about in my ear with metal tweezers trying to pull the offender out, not realising I must have pulled the leaf out, there are zero plants where I live that have teeny tiny leaves or even big leaves that resemble my teeny tiny leaf in any way, and not realising the offender was out I then used some sharp precision pointed tweezers to dig about, thought I had caught something, gave it a tug and felt serious pain in my ear, so I now have a mild earache. So home we came and I’ve been outside in the freezing darkness hunting through my van for my tyre inflator, although I doubt it would be able to inflate a tyre that resembles a pancake, and I’ve not found it, have you any idea of how much underbed and bench seat storage I have in my van??? No you don’t, I can tell you it took a lot of me scrambling around on my knees checking all through it. So I’ve come straight in onto amazon to order one to be delivered by what is now today and of course I have to wait until tomorrow when I’m having my colonoscopy!! So saying all this I realise I have to stop eating at 1pm what is now TODAY and I haven’t even got anywhere near ready for bed yet… Should I say roll on the new year already????? 😱

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Oh my goodness, how on earth did a leaf get into your ear?

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      1. Penny Cooper avatar
        Penny Cooper

        Well… I had just been outside about midnight with Merlot, we don’t have any plants that have teeny tiny silvery leaves out there and I only have 2 orchids and a Penny Plant indoors, our building is on the edge of a cow field and we have woodland up the top of the car park where my garden/allotment is and an estate with its boundary very high wood fences running down the side of the car park, but I had only been a small way up the car park with Merlot because he decided he didn’t really want to go out. When I asked Google to search the leaf it came up with a tiny worm that carries it’s thingy it hatched out of with it wherever it goes 🤮so that is what scared me into grabbing the tweezers and digging around in my ear and going to have the nurse look in with the proper instrument. I didn’t feel the leaf until I had got indoors, taken Merlot’s jumper and harness off, taken my non fluffy fabric scarf off and my coat, walked in the kitchen and started eating and felt like I had loose cotton wool rubbing against my ear drum!!! Bizarre and I made the nurse look more than once, probably 3 times just to be sure that I don’t have a worm in my ear!! 😱🤷I took what I thought was a wing and the nurse said it was definitely a leaf, but Google didn’t link my photo to any plant, just these tiny worms from North America or Australia!!! I still have the ‘leaf’ and it definitely is small enough to have fitted in my ear exactly the way I felt it!!

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  6. M - avatar
    M –

    Ours is still up, too. Tim’s feeling better so it’ll come down tomorrow.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      I actually like having mine up. I’d keep it up all January if I could!

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  7. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    If the whirligig of time brings in his revenges, Louis is not the culprit. Have a look at the picture. He makes himself comfortable on your pillow only to bring you comfort. His behaviour towards you is frankly angelic.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Nooo, don’t encourage him!

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