Archive for May, 2010

Double the Kitten Love

Monday, May 31st, 2010

Don’t be fooled by this serious face. Tamyra is rather playful. This is her top favourite toy. Apart from Sirius Sirius absolutely loves her. The first time he met her she sidled up to him and stuck her face into his and he looked worried and ran downstairs. She continued in this vein and they [...]

Is Santa Claus stuck in my chimney…?

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

I wonder… …we’d better take a closer look Oh, there are white boots with that tail! Santa normally has black boots, huh? Oh – not Santa! There appears to be a kitten coming down my chimney. Lucky me! Isn’t she lovely? She’s called Tamyra and I couldn’t mention her before because I wanted to give [...]

Missed you so much I made several cakes

Saturday, May 29th, 2010

Sorry, I went a bit AWOL the last fortnight and I can’t tell you about one of the big reasons why until after tomorrow. It has been an emotional couple of weeks, a friend of ours died very suddenly and it felt like her life had been cut off in her prime and it brought [...]

Happy Days Part 3 – Honorwood Flocks

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

Sorry for having been absent for so long. It has been so busy round here I don’t know where I am! Anyway onto the good stuff. We visited a rather lovely sheep farm in Wales called Honorwood Flocks run by a lovely couple who got fed up with their run of the mill lives some [...]

Happy Days Part 2 – Dr Who

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

A trip to Cardiff wouldn’t be the same without a visit to the Dr Who Exhibition. After all, the new Dr Who is filmed in and around. I felt a frisson of fear when I saw the clockwork men from The Girl in the Fireplace. The cybermen are pretty scary too but not as scary [...]

Happy Days Part 1 – Cardiff

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

pao and I took off on a trip to Wales last weekend to take advantage of the Bank Holiday and we headed first to Cardiff. I was amused by the Brains Beers – Brain Food? I loved seeing all these old sewing machines in a shop window. I loved these cute knitted biscuits and cakes [...]

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