The cat has left the building.
Jun. 21st, 2006 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zotzSo, no longer do I have a lodger who refuses to pay any rent, or even to buy her own food. She's only moved a couple of blocks down the road (just round the corner from Sarah's, actually) so I'm sure I'll see her again before long. As I won't be feeding her then, though, she won't care about me much. Cupboard love, eh?
Things are quiet, mostly, but on Saturday Lara and Seth dragged me down to the Farne Islands (just south of Lindisfarne, and where Grace Darling and her father made their famous rescue) to look at seabirds. Fantastic they were, too. It was mostly auks in abundance, but there were also quite a lot of kittiwakes, shags and terns. And, in the water by the boat as we were leaving, three ctenophores that looked rather like (and may even have been) these ones but pinker. The largest (the one Lara spotted first) was a couple of inches long. The other two were smaller.
The birds were amazingly unconcerned. The paths are roped off, obviously, but they nest within three or four feet of the ropes. Apparently the eider ducks nest even closer.
Aside from that, I've been visiting flats with Ed and trying to tidy up. And rewatching the Brasseye special, as it's all topical again. Anyone else reckon there's a paediatrician in Wales getting very nervous?
Things are quiet, mostly, but on Saturday Lara and Seth dragged me down to the Farne Islands (just south of Lindisfarne, and where Grace Darling and her father made their famous rescue) to look at seabirds. Fantastic they were, too. It was mostly auks in abundance, but there were also quite a lot of kittiwakes, shags and terns. And, in the water by the boat as we were leaving, three ctenophores that looked rather like (and may even have been) these ones but pinker. The largest (the one Lara spotted first) was a couple of inches long. The other two were smaller.
The birds were amazingly unconcerned. The paths are roped off, obviously, but they nest within three or four feet of the ropes. Apparently the eider ducks nest even closer.
Aside from that, I've been visiting flats with Ed and trying to tidy up. And rewatching the Brasseye special, as it's all topical again. Anyone else reckon there's a paediatrician in Wales getting very nervous?
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Date: 2006-06-21 02:45 pm (UTC)A shotgun would be far more effective.no subject
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Date: 2006-06-21 03:14 pm (UTC)My cat unfortunately is a gentleman and can't stand up for himself against bullies.
While the other cat has had a tough life and has to steal to survive these days. Apparently he was tortured a bit by young children when he was a kitten and that is why he left his proper home when the humans had another baby. So I guess I feel sorry for him and I understand his sometimes hooligan behaviour. But other than verbally threatening to dropkick him over the fence... I basically just try to ignore him in the vain hope that he will 'go home'. He comes looking for affection when I'm outside or sitting on the deck. But I don't touch him, I don't want to encourage him.
However, I suspect that his proper home has moved again and they just haven't bothered to come and collect him now that they have moved into their new home. Why they don't just take him to the SPCA, I don't know! Maybe they just expect me to look after him. But I got the impression that they'd be pissed off if I took him to the SPCA. Mind you, I have no way of taking him there anyway. They are the ones with the cat cage.
TMI, I know ;)
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Date: 2006-06-21 01:08 pm (UTC)http://www.flickr.com/photos/thalamus/sets/72157594172232818/
not many, though.
more from last year...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thalamus/sets/465814/
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Date: 2006-06-21 01:18 pm (UTC)Ta.
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Date: 2006-06-21 01:27 pm (UTC)Um. Don't suppose you have a space free around the last weekend of August, do you? This is very tentative planning...
Good luck to Ed for finding a flat.
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Date: 2006-06-21 02:49 pm (UTC)victimsownershosts will be very kind to her, I'm sure.August? Don't see why not.
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Date: 2006-06-21 03:10 pm (UTC)Ooh, yay! I shall mail you once I get things figured out a bit more. :D
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Date: 2006-06-22 08:55 am (UTC)They love it they actually clear their plates and cry for it. Goodness knows what drugs whiskers put in this stuff, but our 3 seem very happy with it.
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Date: 2006-06-21 04:14 pm (UTC)or is that just what they want us to think??
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Date: 2006-06-21 04:26 pm (UTC)Yes, while they control us with their evil biological warfare mind control weapons.
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Date: 2006-06-21 02:44 pm (UTC)By July, the baby eiders have paddled across and take up residence around the Seahouses harbour. Did you get dive-bombed by the terns?
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Date: 2006-06-21 02:47 pm (UTC)No, the terms left us alone. Seth's pics from last year show him getting slightly hassled, though.
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Date: 2006-06-21 03:23 pm (UTC)the terns tend to nest on inner farne - we only visited staple island this time.
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