50 shades of..

Just as Nick Baines has been standing outside East Croydon Station for 4 years I have been sitting by a footstool in the cottage for over 4 weeks.

Time has not stood still really for me, its just that for HER days have gone by before she has had time to look at Google reader let alone be my amanuensis.




I have been in and out of Cayton Carr for the last couple of months whilst SHE goes with HIM to carry out family business . They do not confide in me but I have over heard the words Nursing Home, Estate Agents and Hearing Aid Batteries. I do not need any of those things , neither does HE. SHE needs Hearing Batteries,I have heard her say a Day in Bed with a book would be nice and meals on a tray, But I don't think SHE is ready to pay a £1000 a week for the privilege, and I know she doesn't want to read 50 shades of Grey, after all ,she has not got over The Lonely Shore by Anna Weale yet.




I am ok Thank very much.




I have been to the Lady in Green for my injection, but now she is a Lady in Pink. I have wandered a little into the alley at the side of the cottage, but wasn't keen.I have also been allowed out of the front of the cottage to the corner, but the path is strewn with dubious dogends . Vet lady thinks I am more than 17 human years old, and my scraggy thinness is perfectly acceptable for a venerable feline. I will keep u posted .

Just wanted u to know I am not dead

Is ok! OUR first night in Cottage

I quite like it. It smells of home anyway.
I was taken from Kiaora this morning to the Vet Lady (who I adore). She gave me something to calm me and then got her assistant to take out all my tangles on my tum with scissors. I had my teeth done too. I had had nothing to eat so was quite famished when I got to the cottage. SHE had to go and get me the prescribed Chicken . Thank God HE didnt really hear vet lady say give him some scrambled egg but only the or chicken bit. It was pouring with rain but still SHE went in search of a cooked Chicken, SPAR no,Butchers1 no,Butchers 2 no, so SHE had to go to T...... Never mind your Principles say I , It was DELICIOUS.
Ive had a good smell round the cottage. There are plenty of hiding places for me. I've already hidden under the desk, and in the shower room. I can see out of the new cat flap on to the yard. I think I'll manage, I heard THEM say that when I can go out THEY might just cut a flap out of the back gate so I can go into the wilds of the Ravine.
SHE is just getting the snacks ready for HOMEGROUP tonight,  Healthy ones of course, pineapple and grapes and stuff, and whilst HE is going upstairs to get something I am going to sneak up and see what its like in the rest of my NEW HOME.

Not dementia but downsizing

You will have heard of not waving but drowning. **I am doing not dementia but downsizing . It too involves the presence of onlookers who can do absolutely nothing. I am an old cat now, 16 at least, which makes me about 84.

I am getting a bit thinner and more fussy with my food. Chicken is my favourite. Infact I can smell it from 15yards when the fridge is open. SHE waves bits around in the air to get me back into the kitchen at night. I humour HER and saunter to my bed.

I am moving. It is making me very anxious. Here I have a garden, a position in society, an outlook and quality visitors. What will become of me? There in old cottage  THEY do not even have any soil or grass for me, just a yard. I have seen the unspeakable plastic box thing they have purchased. How are the mighty to be fallen ?

I have been thinking positively and being focussed as Sulina says. I am after all a Christian Cat. So  like HER though I have been much too far out all my life, I am going to leave Kiaora with calm  and count my blessings.

** Stevie Smith

What I'm up to or not ...

I thought I would try a few new places for resting,This is a picture of me trying out Brian's Rucksack.It must be Wednesday , he always leaves it on the floor on Wednesdays. I don't know why he brings it to Homegroup. He brings his Bible in it but he is a big strong man and could easily just walk with it in his pocket.

I haven't done much Lent and Holy Week this year. I am going through a period of questioning my faith.

 Not my Faith in God , let the reader understand . I am a well grounded feline. I know my Bible too. I have just got to Matthew 14. She and I do our reading  together every morning. We are going through the whole Bible. We started in July, it usually takes us a whole year to get through it all.It is my 4th time. We don't read it as such , but listen to it as we have our breakfasts.It is on CD.We don't like Matthew as it is Timothy Bateson and he is not a clear reader. We like Alec McCowen best . 

No , I am questioning my faith in the C of E .That's why I'm not doing Lent and Holy Week this year. They are man made things. She is very p..........off with the C o E too and wishes She could go to a more Christian Church, where they dont argue about fringe stuff as if it was the core stuff. I  would not fit in at all if I were a human as I am an' it' technically. But I know all about talking Asses and people who are whitened sepulchres and would just love to know what Jesus wrote in the sand that time. 

So I am missing out the religious stuff and going straight to the 2 days wot matter this Friday and this Sunday , man made they might be but taking them in the right order what an excuse for a party!

Oh dear! Sorry !

Told u I had SAD

I have had SAD for the last month but I am nearly over it. The snow kept me from prowling, but I did sit , or lurk outside the back door waiting to catch the birds who were hanging around. But no birds hung around, just huge flocks of starlings sweeping in after counting 50 after the Sultanas were put out. SHE has been wasting the housekeeping again. Whats, more SHE has had to go up to Tescos most days for milk so has been tempted in to Value Sultana for the birds . Her language is a bit rough. SHE misses Mills who used to get Organic milk for her. SHE has to go to the dreaded T'S  as Smarts and Maynards and Paper shop only sell ordinary Milk. SHE is pedantic about ORGANIC MILK.  I wont go into it as it is boring and wildly unproven  what SHE thinks about milk and what the hormones fed to cows does to you. Why doesn't she do without like I do.

I am trying to be positive too.........

I see that SHE has been looking at the post that Pam Roberts has put on the Parish Blog. Its all very well for the church, but what about ME I say.

THEY think I have no feelings, that  no one has consulted me about the future really IRKS me. I have never made much of a fuss. I sit around and have to listen to THEIR choice on the radio. I have to sit around and listen to THEIR  Talking all day long. I have to look pretty and look and purr at THEIR friends every Wednesday night, THEIR daughter and her LITTLE HIMS most weekends, and do you Know Ben they have not once consulted me about MY FUTURE as they steam on with THEIR own FUTURE PLANS. 

Do THEY  think I have no feelings? Do THEY even realise that moving away from KIAORA could be very disturbing for an old feline. Where will I catch birds, where will I look out  from if we don't  have a drive? How will my public get to see me sitting around and gracing this pretty garden with my elegant presence?

I have looked at Pam's Post  myself. I am going to try and be positive too..........

This is difficult

I am at Cayton Carr again Ben. You know that and missed me terribly whilst you were at Kiaora . So did Win I know. She asked after me especially. You kept looking for signs of my domicile. I am sure you glanced up on the shelf at that green tray containing my brush and catnip and wondered if I was alright. Other He will have talked to HER about me I'm sure, and Win will have reiterated how gorgeous I am.

 I have been for 10days already. Its because of Christmas and your sisters issues with being in the presence of my DNA. I am sure THEY have not forgotten me. I know that SHE will have kept a dish of some Christmas fowl in the Deep Freezer for me, a bit of Giblets and Neck neatly diced and spiced with gravy made from the boiled up carcass of the turkey.  That will do nicely . I am looking forward to it on my return to Kiaora.  They didnt put a silly ribbon on me here, DG.