Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Cats on Tuesday...

Since the last exciting episode of CoT...

Pepper sniffs flowers
Pepper has sniffed some flowers...

Elvis 2
We met two cats called Misty and Elvis (this is Elvis)...

and this is Misty...

Charlie asleep
Some cats have done a lot of sleeping...
(J'accuse Charlie and Mrs P!)

Pod asleep

  Damn those paparazzi...
...and Charlie acquired a stalker :O)


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Friday, 22 February 2013

What have I been up to...?

Helloooo again!  No I have not deserted blogland.  Just been trying to regain some balance in my life away from the MAC.  I seemed to be either at work or on the computer, with not much time left for the things I like doing, and feeling so limp the other week put things into perspective for me.  Anyway, fear not, my camera has been to hand and so here's a brief run-down of what I've been doing.

I went to Bosworth Battlefield...

Snow 5
We had a little more snow...

Daffs
We walked around Batsford Arboretum...

Spiral leaf


We enjoyed some sunshine...

... and had lunch with friends and met
their two rather spiffing cats.
This is Misty.

So there you have it.  I've been chilling, but still photographically industrious - oh yes, and we also got to see Lincoln at Warwick Arts Centre which was excellent.  A bit The West Wing in period costume :O)

Have a great weekend everyone x

Sunday, 10 February 2013

I'm still here!

Just a note to say I'm still around - I've just been rather sick for the last couple of weeks and have been so lacking in energy or mental awareness that I've only just picked up my camera again!  Still not 100% but I made it out to Bosworth Battlefield this morning and took a picture of a puddle as proof...  There's also a pic of a weed-type plant that caught my eye...




Thursday, 7 February 2013

Just because it made me laugh...

Not one of mine - but I saw it on Facebook and decided it was worth sharing :O))



Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Cats on Tuesday - and a bit with a dog...

Well the main cat news this week is that we took Charlie's glucose reading and it was 5.6, so hurrah for him!  Yesterday he was a little worried about all the attention that body he buried in a car park in Leicester was receiving, but now thinks he's got away with it, so that's ok.  Meanwhile, Mrs P was meant to go for her final antibiotic jab last night, but due to me not feeling very well this has been postponed until tonight (and you thought you'd got away with it Pod...)... Pepper has been in hibernation mode although did find the energy to lunge at Charlie once or twice to keep him on his toes.  I also popped in to see Bumble... who did her 'I am a terrifying ginger cat look' especially for the camera.

The cats will hate me for saying this but on Friday I did a photo shoot with a dog called Dudley.  He is a very friendly labrador who belongs to Corrie, one of the nice nurses at the cats' vets.  We were all very, very muddy by the end of the afternoon but a good time was had by all. 

Bumble...
Scary face, scary cat.

Mrs P...
Not scary - but may well be tonight.

Corrie and Dudley
Here are Corrie and Dudley sharing a joke...

Dudley 4
Here's Dudley grinning for the camera...

Dudley 2
... and here he is about to cover me in mud.

Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Cats on Tuesday...

This week in the world of cat...



Because she hadn't seen her friend the Buddha
for a few days, Pepper was worried SOMEONE
(we're looking at you Charlie),
might have harmed him in some way.
Here she is bravely searching for him in the snow 
(and wearing her new gold collar with panache
it has to be said).

Snow Buddha
Thankfully, she actually discovered that
he'd been there all the time, only
she hadn't recognised him as he
appeared to have acquired a new hat.

 Charlie did a soulful pose in 
return for some tuna...

... gazed at his reflection in the window,

... agreed to model the new
kitchen flooring for us
(in return for more tuna)...

... then collapsed exhausted on the bed.

Mrs Pod supervised David
removing the old carpet...
(she had to be bribed with those
biscuits to keep out of the way on
the sofa)...

... then supervised the men
who came to fit the new one.
This time she had to be forcefully
removed from lying on it when
they were trying to fit it.
She's a stubborn cat...

Her work done,
she joined Charlie on the bed,
had a wash, then slept
for the rest of the day.



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Saturday, 26 January 2013

Aaaaaaargh! The Snow has Gone...

Oh well, it was fun whilst it lasted.  Plus this week I've had to go into work later and leave earlier because of the road conditions, which can't be bad.

As the car was being MOTd yesterday I took a bus, (driven by someone who seemed to have been trained by Lewis Hamilton) into town, then met up with Cath for hot chocolate and her assistance in my ongoing search for a new pair of glasses.  I then dragged her to the park where I made her throw clumps of snow in the air and batter them until they disintegrated - all in the name of photographic experimentation of course.  A dog actually barked at us whilst we were doing this and Cath got covered in snow, and my feet were freezing... what I do for the sake of art...  I later found out that Helen had been in town at the same time.  If I'd only known this she could have been dragged into the snow frenzy as well.  Rats.

Today we have the excitement of going to look for bookshelves for the work-in-progress that is our living room, then tonight we're off to see Seven Psychopaths (nothing to do with Cath and Helen).

Have a great weekend!

This squirrel was trying to spy on the two crazy
women throwing snow... fail!
You can just see his friend's tail 
at the bottom left of the tree. 

Cath doing stuff with snow...

My lovely 50mm lens and a fast shutter speed.
I wish I'd opened up the aperture more, so I could have 
used a lower ISO, but I was trying to keep as much 
of what was happening in focus as possible.
If Cath hadn't been suffering from frost bite at this point
I'd have made her do it a few more times :O)


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