The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
Pavel is just… wrong. I’ve never seen a cat so less concerned about sleeping on his back, splayed open to the world. He also has a habit of falling off the side of the sofa arm and being eaten by a pile of cushions. Tolstoy likes to wedge himself between my pillows and my bedside table, or just folds up like an accordion. Reenpig is generally a hot mess.
They’re all defective, but we love them.
I achieve enlightenment on a daily basis.
Don’t think. It leads to worry and stress and other bad things.
So, following on from this previous post, my recycling bin officially has a drinking problem.
It’s been exactly one month since it got emptied. In that time, it drank 18 bottles of wine, 1 bottle of gin, 1 bottle of vodka and 1 bottle of Kahlúa.
She leaves me random post it notes.
(Now to be fully transparent, she left me this weeks ago, when I really started working from home full time, and it’s been stuck to my desktop screen ever since)
A sparrow thumped into our patio door while two of our useless lumps were sunning themselves on the balcony. For the time it took me to walk from the living room to the balcony, both cats were just sitting there, looking at the poor confused bird. At one point, Tolstoy tried to attempt to poke it but stopped short of actually touching it.
Mighty hunters indeed. We shooed them inside and closed the door so that the bird could come to its senses in its own time. The cats became much braver, confident and vocal when they were behind the safety of the closed patio door.
A couple of weeks ago, I got an intriguing letter from Celliers de Sion. As a way to drum up business during the lockdown, they were offering “wine in tubes”-based sampling sets of 8 or 16 wines from their selection. The wines are tubed under controlled atmosphere so they don’t oxidize.
Given that all our wine tasting events have been put on hold or cancelled, I suggested this to the wine club at work and it proved to be a popular idea. We all got our kits delivered by post and we met up online tonight.
It was the best use of corporate communication channels I’ve made all week.
Tasty, too!
This is the best twitter account ev4r: @PresVillain: I take real Trump quotes and photoshop them into comics. Created by D.M. Higgins.
Tolstoy was helping me review my meetings this morning.
Had an impromptu video chat with an old (so old, so very very old) friend.
Made some chocolate & orange hot cross buns. But since Easter is passed and we’re heathens, they became hot agnostic buns. And they smell phenomenal!