June came tonight. As she always rushes away after her visits - so busy - she had not been able to appreciate fully the effects of our groom-a-thon, so when KFC came swaggering up to greet her tonight she was bowled over by how beautiful she looks. "Wow" she said, "she looks better than I've...

This evening before the fireworks for Guy Fawkes night and Diwali started. They are very loud now and he hasn't returned after a couple of hours. He's seen it all before so will probably be Ok but I'd prefer to have him inside away from it. As we speak he flew inside when I opened the back door...

Is that instead of going to his bedroom now, Boyfie likes to be on my knee all the time. The problem with that is I am getting up all the time to fiddle with my woodburner. Anyone who thinks you can put a few logs on the woodburner and leave it for hours has another think coming. it takes 4...

This morning, Boyfie accompanied me to help feed the chickens. It's a bit nippy here atm and he hadn't been out for 12 hours so on the way back he dug himself a little hole in the leaves & earth and sat on it to do a huge wee next to one of my vacant chicken huts and runs. What he didn't...

Got up on my stove, knocked the cover off my pork with mushrooms and courgettes and licked most of the gravy off it while I was out playing Scrabble this afternoon. Any idea who that could have been? Tweed

Boyfie went out this morning and came back with a collared dove which he left on the doormat for my dinner, since he'd ruined mine on Tuesday. It's a long time since he caught one, he used to bring them for KFC. He couldn't resist just eating the head (sorry, a bit gross) but the rest was mine...

I got one a while ago and it's very useful. Last night when boyfie & I were watching the telly we heard a crash from the kitchen and now it's a gonner. I spent ages with the vacuum cleaner cleaning up from the smashed glass for Boyfie's paws. I stil don't know how it happened. I've ordered...

I guarantee it will make you laugh if anyone ever wondered about the quality of Google translate... http://distractify.com/fun/fails/the-x-worst-asian-sign-translations-of-all-time/ I loved it. Tweed

Because I go out at about 11 a.m on Christmas Day, return at 3.45 for his tea (very important) spend an hour or so with him, and go again until midnight. The following day, similar except I get home earlier. Having some turkey doesn't make up for it. He's glad when Christmas is over. TBH, so am...

to be the perfect cat owner according to my book. I did almost everything fine but: I am supposed to install shelves near the ceiling in every room "because your cat likes to observe things from there" I can assure you that won't be happening. Boyfie doesn't want to get up on a high shelf,...

I was sitting on my armchair with Boyfie at the side of me when I became aware that there was a cat on the arm of my chair, I could see him out of the corner of my eye so I petted him and he came on to my knee. He was tabby & white like Boyfriend but he was a lot bigger, but thin and he had...

You all know how much KFC likes her wild food (and the vole that Boyfie caught a few days ago she didn't notice on the carpet. I brought it to her attention when I stepped on it but rigor mortis had set in and that is apparently not acceptable.) So yesterday morning when I was feeding the...

I know where she is. She's behind my woodburning stove. It's in a small brickbuilt inglenook fireplace with about 8 inches either side and similar at the back. It's cold here, it's taken all day to warm up the room to 68F which isn't good enough obviously so the old girl has taken herself to a...

Don't ask. Once again my wonderful friend June came to the rescue to look after my cats and chickens. I only needed to advise her of it and she was there. She fetched me out hospital today when there was an 8 hour wait for an ambulance and I was desperate to get home. She is as capable as I am...

Simon is an ex-counsellor & befriender I had, provided by my workplace. I was bullied by a manager when my performance fell when my mother was found dead, but apparently it's OK to do that as long as they were seen to do the correct thing by providing a counsellor after bullying me into clinical...

Just now, Boyfie was staring at his new earth/leaves filled litterbox which he used just once. I said "what, you want to use it ?" He said no, as he's been out and about all day but continued to stare at it. Just to humour him I shook it and a mowsie jumped out. It's now an ex-mowsie as he...

How are you? We have not heard from you for a while. Last time you posted you seemed to say that you thought you'd be going to RB to join Spirit soon, please let us know that this thought has passed. Tweed

The Parrot (A Thanksgiving classic) A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird's mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity. John tried and tried to change the bird's attitude by...

I like him to have a reflective one in case he goes on the road and he came in without it. I've bought him a new one today and he won't let me put it on. He sees it in my hand and disappears. He was at the door a moment ago, and I got near him but he heard the bell on it and has disappeared...

If my vet insists you pay immediately and then claim it back? I thought the whole point of pet insurance is that you cannot afford a huge fee yourself. or am I missing the point? I didn't have boyfie insured as such but I'd paid a monthly sum in for years. He busted it and more. but he's doing...