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What bothers you and why? Bugs. The ones I can see, the ones that I can’t, the ones that are there AND the ones that aren’t. The Scottish midges have, despite everyone’s warnings, been scarce so far. The kamikaze horseflies, on the other hand, have left life-changing scars. They like the taste of Cat Daddy…
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What’s the most delicious thing you’ve ever eaten? *WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF MURDER AND DEATH* I would love to be able to answer this question with “Jambon de Bayonne” or “organic aged Comté from the local cheese deli”, giving the message that Louis Catorze is a cultured gentleman with a sophisticated palate. However, these…
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Remember Boots and his wardrobe of Chelsea collars? Well, it’s been around four months since Sa Maj gifted six collars to his ami, and the big sod has already lost three of them. I know that not everyone thinks collars are a good idea for cats, but Boots really, really needs one. As well as…
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Describe your most memorable holiday. I have zero memory for places I’ve been to, so my most recent holiday will have to do. And it’s so recent that, erm, we’re still here! Cat Daddy and I are in the same part of the Scottish Highlands that we visited last year, and I’m writing this post…
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What are your daily habits? In the summer months, they mostly involve efforts to escape the evil pollen: lighting beeswax candles, swallowing antihistamines, applying eye drops, that kind of thing. Fun! However, I haven’t had much success, and this is mostly Louis Catorze’s fault. If you share a house with an animal who goes outdoors…
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It’s our last guitar lesson of the term tomorrow, and we are going to take our teacher out for a drink. We really love our lessons, so we will miss them during the summer break. We are not sure that our teacher will feel the same, but tant pis. When I was practising the guitar…
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If cats had taglines*, what would yours be? *I thought this said “tagines” at first, and was about to reply, “Clay, glazed, not cast iron and DEFINITELY not plebby aluminium.”. Well, it’s not so much a tagline as an earworm. I apologise in advance for the fact that, after you read this, you, too, will…
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Merci à Dieu: it’s the summer holidays. I was looking forward to relaxing, but Louis Catorze has other ideas and has been absolutely wired, burning off about 3% of his excess energy on ICB and using the other 97% on us throughout the night. One night he was especially beastly, waking us countless times by…
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This week, we have been mostly dealing with this kind of caper: In other news, I don’t know whether it’s a Weird Moon, whether the planets have aligned themselves in some unique way, never up be repeated again, or perhaps some other mystical force is at work here? But we appear to have solved a…
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In the U.K. last week, a person (who remains unknown, but I would bet Le Château on them being male) called the police to report that they were being followed by a cat. The story went viral in the media, leading the police to remind us, “Think before you dial”. Despite being a nation of…
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One of my international students, R, has lots of cats back home in Cyprus. Two of them are called, erm, Fluffy and Hitler. But the others don’t have names, nor is he even sure of how many there are. My mind is utterly blown at the thought of naming some cats but not others, and…
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What is your favourite season of year? Why? It’s the summer solstice and, despite that we often refer to this time of year as Midsummer, it’s really the START of astrological (or maybe astronomical?) summer. I am firmly an autumn person, but Louis Catorze LOVES the summer – well, he is the Sun King, so…
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The football fixtures for the next season were announced last Thursday. I had been looking forward to that day for weeks and was up early, sitting eagerly with my phone. (They don’t release the dates until 9am so I know that it’s a waste of time expecting anything to happen before then, but such was…
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