All About Cats

I love it when the kittens are all snuggled up and warm. So do they. When I have to leave the house and turn the heater off, they are not so impressed. 

Here is a photoshoot for their 1980s album cover...

I was sent a wee gift in the mail from work after attending a practice framework workshop, with a proviso that I posted a photo on the work intranet, so I got Penelope to pose with it and sent the photo captioned 'practice makes pur-fect'.

Meanwhile, Melantho needs no encouragement to pose, to prove she is truly a collector's item. 

To celebrate International Cat Day, we got together with friends for a 'progressive feline dinner'. We are all childfree couples with two cats who like to eat and drink and socialise. What better way to spend an afternoon/ evening? We began at our place for Stage One: Beer and Cheese with the Burmese.

Stage Two was cocktails and tapas with the ginger tabbies. The cats are called Mayhem and Moment, but I don't yet know which is which.

Last, but very much not least, was Stage Three: Cake and wine with the giant felines. Said felines are Smith and Wesson. Again I do not (yet) know which cat is which.

Christmas

This is a sort of photo-essay of the day. I think it's fairly self-explanatory.

Next door's cat

We still miss Chester desperately, but I am not ready for another cat of my own, so am comprising with this duvet cover which allows cats on the bed.

Between Christmas and New Year we took a trip to a winery and cafe - as you do... Collector make some sensational wines, including the Lamp Lit Marsanne (flint, spice and pome fruit - gentle and elegant), the Shoreline Rose (manadrin, cherry, rose-water - musky with a dry finish), the Landfall Pinot Meunier (red currants, strawberries, pepper and smoke - herbaceous and savoury) and the Marked Tree Shiraz (dark cherry, blackberry, aniseed - textured and robust). We tried some there and brought some home.

Collector Wines

These are the books on my bedside table. I plan to have an entirely different pile by the end of the year, so I'd best get reading them now!

Bedside books