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Yesterday was the sixth anniversary of when Louis Catorze came to live with us. Or, as Cat Daddy puts it, “Six years of him and his stupid shite” (and he may have a point but I don’t imagine they’ll be putting that on the front of greeting cards anytime soon). And, to mark this auspicious…
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Merci à Dieu et à tous ses anges: our cleaning lady is back. And I am more relieved than I ever thought possible because, although I like it when places and things are clean, I hate cleaning. Nevertheless Cat Daddy and I had been getting used to our routine of putting on some cleaning music*…
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A few nights ago, Louis Catorze escaped out at The Front. Again. He isn’t allowed to be there unsupervised, as you know, but, if we are sitting in the front room and can keep an eye on him through the open window, it’s not so bad. He happily sits on the wall outside, watching the…
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I have started asking Cat Daddy to write down all the drunken topics of conversation that arise during the Zoom calls with his pub mates. This is mainly so that I don’t have to bother listening and trying to keep up. Cat Daddy: “Why do I have to do this? You’re only going to blog…
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A few days ago my friend Laura, whom I hadn’t seen since before lockdown and who also has a French cat, came by for a doorstep chat. Louis Catorze was asleep in his box when she arrived (yes, the one labelled “Cats are not permitted to sit inside this box”) but he came out to…
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Cat Daddy and I recently started ordering our fruit and vegetables from Oddbox, who rescue surplus produce: https://www.oddbox.co.uk It’s not necessarily local, organic produce, nor can you choose the contents – apart from the weekly specials which you can chuck in as add-ons – but we don’t really care about any of that. We rather…
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Cats and full moons, Mesdames et Messieurs: whatever you’ve heard, it’s all true. A few nights ago, during the full moon, Louis Catorze’s behaviour was utterly out of control, with relentless hours of racing around, whining, screaming and so on. As usual, Cat Daddy slept through it and he didn’t believe me when I told…
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Now that summer is properly here, Louis Catorze is permanently out. And by that I don’t simply mean he is spending more time outdoors than he used to. I mean we never see him, EVER. Sometimes Cat Daddy has even had to cancel Boys’ Club meetings due to low attendance, which is unheard of. Occasionally,…
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Our pubs are officially open from today. However, Cat Daddy and his boozing buddies have decided that they won’t be heading back to the Cock and Bull* quite yet, and that they will continue their virtual drinking meets for the time being. This is great news for Louis Catorze, who loves the Friday night Zoom…
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Louis Catorze’s ears are now almost completely bald, and they look more like pigs’ ears than ever before. Cat Daddy is convinced that the sunblock somehow “killed the hair follicles” so, even though this is highly unlikely, I stopped applying it just to see what would happen. But I think he has continued to lose…
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Louis Catorze has a new sound. Oui, Mesdames et Messieurs, his repertoire of sounds is no longer limited to the ones mentioned here: https://louiscatorze.com/2018/11/11/je-gueule-donc-je-suis/. We can now add Le Chien Blessé to the list, and this sound is exactly as one would imagine. If you have a dog, and your dog has ever been shut…
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Good news: Brentford beat West Bromwich Albion on Friday night. Bad news: although we desperately scoured the television for a glimpse of earless Louis Catorze on the giant banner, we weren’t able to spot him. Even worse news: Brentford happened to score just as Cat Daddy was having an intimate papa-fils moment with his boy…
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It is unbelievably, painfully, brain-vaporisingly hot. And Louis Catorze wants lap cuddles. But, when he settles on me, it makes him/us even hotter. So he meows disdainfully as if it were all my fault and steps off. But then he wants lap cuddles again. So he steps onto me and settles down once more. As…
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A couple of evenings ago, when Cat Daddy was putting out the recycling, Louis Catorze escaped out at The Front. Then he came to the window as we were watching television and stared in unflinchingly and creepily. We ignored him and carried on watching television. He continued to stare. Cat Daddy: “I’m going to have…
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