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Cat Daddy and I are thrilled that the football is back. Louis Catorze would have preferred it if we were able to invite the boys* round to watch it, bien sûr, but I think even he accepts that compromised football is better than none at all. *Catorze is, however, still able to get his virtual…
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The summer solstice is here, the football is back, AND it’s also our wedding anniversary today. We will be celebrating at home, of course, but I know that Cat Daddy misses pubs and would far rather be there. (Remember when there were pubs?) Not long ago he was recalling one pub, in particular, that he…
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The fur around Louis Catorze’s slowly-regrowing tattoo sleeve has turned a reddish-brown. The first time I saw it, my heart almost stopped because I thought it was sunburn, and I felt like the worst person in the world for not thinking to protect my poor boy’s bald arm from the sun. (He would have looked…
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Because I am usually at work when our cleaning lady is round, I don’t often get to see what Louis Catorze is like when she is cleaning. Most cats would run for the hills at the sight of a stranger brandishing a vacuum cleaner but, whilst he doesn’t love the sound of it, he’s not…
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It’s almost 12 weeks since lockdown began and, merci à Dieu: NO MORE VIDEO CALLS. I’ve had to deal with a number of them for work, of course, which is fine because there’s an actual point and because there are actual new things to say, but gone are the social video calls which make me…
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My hay fever symptoms started early this year – 20th May rather than the typical 1st June – and, somehow, my regular management methods didn’t seem to be as effective as they were last year. Then I discovered that I’d had the foresight to write myself a reminder last July in the Notes section of…
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When quarantine began, I saw an internet meme (I hate that stupid word and am actually glad that my autocorrect changes it to the much more civilised “même”) that read, “We are three weeks away from knowing everyone’s true hair colour.” It’s now MONTHS since we went anywhere near a hair salon, and somehow I…
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And, in a flash, the age-old mystery of why the living room television never works first thing in the morning has been solved. For months and months Cat Daddy blamed our cleaning lady. Then, when we entered quarantine and she stopped coming, he started to blame me for “forgetting how to switch it on” (nonsense)…
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Because Louis Catorze has been spending an awful lot of time here (see below) lately, I wondered if perhaps we should build him a little viewing shelf on the wall. According to Jackson Galaxy (in case you don’t know, he’s an expert cat freak who magically makes naughty ones behave) cats are either deep burrowers…
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Cat Daddy and I have found it difficult to stick to our green routine during lockdown, for the following reasons: 1. Due to lack of availability, we have, at times, had to choose between food wrapped in plastic or no food at all. 2. We haven’t been able to get to the post office to…
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The males in this household are driving me round the bend. A couple of nights ago they stayed up late for an extended Boys’ Club, which is a fairly common occurrence here at Le Château. But, when they finally came to bed at 6am (!), instead of slipping silently into the bedroom, they were irritating…
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This little story did the social media rounds last month, and I really hope it’s true: I like to think that the cats met on their travels, with Cat 2 saying, “I would really like a human sucker whom I can treat like dirt”, and that Cat 1 replied, “I have a plan. I think…
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Coronavirus is now over, and we can all go back to doing whatever we like. Well, nobody has actually said as such but this appears to be what everyone has decided, and Cat Daddy and I are the only ones who are still poking people away with a 2-metre stick. Although, to be honest, I…
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One big difference between me and Cat Daddy, in terms of our attitude and preferences regarding pets, is that he likes show-off animals who do lots of zany things, whereas I just want a quiet one who won’t give me any grief. Blue the Smoke Bengal’s mamma told us last week that, since quarantine began,…
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