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Cat Daddy and I are in Iceland at the moment, so we spent the last couple of days preparing for the arrival of Louis Catorze’s chat-sitteurs. We systematically have to remind all visitors that Catorze has a naughty habit of entering bedrooms and raising merry hell as people sleep, and this occasion was no exception.…
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Oui, Mesdames et Messieurs, the answer to Wednesday’s French Wordle was this: I know. I didn’t think proper nouns were allowed but, after some research, I have discovered that a louis is a type of sovereign coin. So I have learned something new. I have to give a special mention to my friend Ben for…
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In my eight years of writing Le Blog, never have I ever posted twice in one day. So, if you are a regular follower, you will know that this is a TRÈS big deal indeed. If you’re into Wordle, please give the French equivalent, Le Mot, a go today. Even if you don’t think you…
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West Ham footballer Kurt Zouma has been cruel to his cat, and everyone in the U.K. is rightly livid about it. This was bad timing as I had just moved him into my Fantasy Football team for the new game week. There is a video online showing what happened, but I haven’t posted a copy…
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Cat Daddy: “Oh my God. What’s happened to Louis’s fur?” Me, imagining the horror of a Code Brun situation: “Erm, why? What’s wrong with it?” Him: “It’s gone all weird.” Me: “???” Him: “Like tiger bread.” Me: “???” Him: “Come and look.” It turned out that the cause of Cat Daddy’s alarm was Louis Catorze’s…
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Merci à Dieu et à tous ses anges: after a few months of being out of stock, Louis Catorze’s Orijen is back. Cat Daddy opened a new pack the other day and, for the first time in ages, the little sod wolfed down a whole scoop, without leaving a single crumb. Cat Daddy, assuming I…
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Louis Catorze has been an utter pest for the last few days, and he has neither the moon (nowhere near full) nor the steroid shot (hasn’t taken place yet) as an excuse this time. By day he annoys the merde out of Cat Daddy, headbutting his laptop and screaming, and by night he annoys me…
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Louis Catorze is delighted that one of his comrades has infiltrated moved into the White House. And he is not remotely surprised to learn that the cat chose them, and not vice versa, when she decided to join Dr Biden on stage during her husband’s presidential campaign. I imagined that Catorze would be somewhat affronted…
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Back in May last year, I posted about my sister in SE20 who is trying to trap some feral cats who live near her house. She is soldiering on in her mission, but we are all worried about one particular black cat, known in the neighbourhood as Chunky (for obvious reasons). The poor boy needs…
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There is a new némésis in town, and Louis Catorze is not pleased about this at all. I know: when you’ve pissed off almost every animal you’ve ever met, the last thing you need is another enemy, right? But our mutual friend has, for whatever reason, decided that adding one more to his portfolio would…
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Last week Nick Ferrari on LBC (a U.K. radio station) had a phone-in with the question “How many cats is too many?” and Cat Daddy gave serious thought to calling in and saying “One”. No doubt the call would have been punctuated by ear-splitting screaming from a certain individual, proving Cat Daddy’s point. Oui, Mesdames…
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At school last week we had a training day, and the theme was “Effective Questioning”. Each of us had to go along to the session with three examples of ways in which we regularly question students in class, although I don’t know what my colleagues made of my choices (“WTF?” “Are you kidding me?” “The…
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Every now and again, Louis Catorze wakes me up some time before my alarm goes off. This annoys the hell out of me, but shutting him out of the bedroom would result in him screaming and scratching at the door like an angry poltergeist, which would be considerably worse. We have known for some time…
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It’s all kicking off here in the U.K. and we Brits are the laughing stock of the world. Again. During lockdown, when we weren’t supposed to be seeing more than one person outdoors, parties took place at the Prime Minister’s residence. The person hosting the parties initially denied that there were parties, and has now…
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