I’ve been tagged by Maria at
First Draft Café. Maria is
one of the few bloggers who I know in real life. We joined together to present a creative writing evening for local residents... a most successful event. Now Maria has tagged me and the rules are that
I must tell you 10 random things about myself but I'm changing that slightly to 10 facts about me and
my pets (not forgetting some cat photos at the end of the post.)
1. The first fact has to be that I still miss my darling dog
Josh who died suddenly exactly a year ago.
2. Josh was only my second ever dog. When I met Mr A he came
as one of a pair, him and Ben. It was definitely a case of ‘love Mr A, love his
dog’.
3. I’ve always had cats since I was a little girl. My first
cat was called Timothy.
4. For many years I was the slightly embarrassed owner of
two cats who my ex-husband named Plink and Plonk. They were lovely boys but, with names like that, I preferred not to call them in from the front of
the house.
5. When I moved in with Mr A we had to introduce Plink and
Plonk to Ben. Ben was a very excited dog. ‘Living with cats! Yo and woof!’ How
wrong can a dog be? They sat on the dining table and took swipes at
his muzzle as he trotted past. ‘What did I do to deserve that?’
6. I had Plink and Plonk for about 19 years... and then came Rosie, a loving little tortoiseshell cat. She had been rescued from a
family where the toddler had stabbed one of her kittens with a scissors and
thrown another down the stairs. The social services removed Rosie and her
surviving kittens and rehomed all but Rosie… until we came along. We had
her for almost 17 years. She died two years ago.
7. Long before Rosie
was born my mum embroidered a picture of a cat. To our surprise it was our Rosie. She was
always being held up next to it to show off the
likeness whenever we had visitors.
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| Wasn't my Mum clever! |
8. In March this year, just before mum died, she told me that
it was time I got cats again. On her advice I did just that. It was good
advice.
9. In March Mabel and Charlie entered our lives. They are
middle-aged, blue/grey, girl cats who desperately needed a new home. When we
first got them they were very nervous and timid.
10. Mable and Charlie are no longer nervous and timid. Only
last night they were racing each other up and down the stairs and leaping
across us as we watched the television. It’s good to have pets in the house again.
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| Mabel: Why are you disturbing our breakfast? |
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Charlie: What's this camera doing here?
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Now it's time to pass the tag on. I've tried to choose bloggers who I haven't sent awards to recently but who are regular visitors to my blog. Apologies to those I've missed.
Sarah Pearson at
Empty White Pages
Rebecca Emin at
Ramblings of a Rusty Writer
Ali Bacon at
Between the Lines
D. J. Kirkby at
D. J. Kirkby
L. G. Smith at
Bards and Prophets
