I wanted to put up some pictures of how large Fudge’s mane has got at this time of year.
January:
November:
May
He doesn’t half look strange when he tries to wash it!
As ever, lots of pictures of both cats on Flickr: Fudge, Smudge, and both of them.
Category Archives: Animals
Time lapse cat
Lovely video of what cats do all day – time lapse photography gets ten hours of cats sleeping around condensed into two minutes.
Redressing the balance
I’ve taken a few more Smudge pictures to even the balance a little. Timid little cat!
So timid, that much of the time he won’t talk to us. He runs out of any room we see him in. I find myself singing Black to him – “No need to run / And hide”
He’s not that bright either, so the standard place for him to run to is the fish tank where he spends hours trying to catch the little fish, and clawing the polystyrene tiles out from under the tank. He’s so dim, he reminds us of the puppet playing Matt Damon in Team America.
After dark, however, and upstairs, on the bed, he becomes a whole other cat. But only then and only there. Suddenly he demands affection, purrs his little head off, headbutts you to make sure you don’t forget him, tramps up and down your body under the duvet, before finally settling down and purring some more.
For hours before bedtime, he hovers in the doorway of the bedroom, waiting for someone to go to bed. Every time anyone goes near, he jumps on the bed and starts the motorbike purr in anticipation of the rest of us turning on.
Shouldn’t you be at work?
Shouldn't you be at work?
Especially for Grace
Grace asked for more cat pictures. I think she’s probably gone to bed now.
Whilst we were doing so much with cat pics yesterday (less so today) a colleague pointed out that I have far more pictures of Fudge than Smudge.
This is true. Fudge is definitely my favourite. But it’s OK, because Smudge is P’s favourite, so it all evens out.
Here’s a few other cool things Duncan taught us to do:
Silhouettes… and
… Break-outs – photos where parts of the image break out of the frame of the rest. This takes hours in Photoshop, itself an expensive programme, but is relatively straightforward in PagePlus.
Party training
Spending the weekend in Birmingham on a party course learning how to use PagePlus – and look what that nice Duncan Borrowman has taught us to do.
I’ve been using the program for over a year now, and I’m pretty au fait with most of it, but there are still brilliant nuggets of information that I hadn’t figured out for myself.
We’re sitting in a room with our own laptops and source images, so every now and again, an instruction is “Find an image, do this, do that and voila.”
I suspect none of my constituents are going to be too chuffed to be sent pictures of my cats. It’s bad enough we do it here on the blog all the time.
Cat pic round-up
A portmanteau post of some of the best cat pictures we’ve taken over the last few months.
I’m on the list
I’ve been getting a lot of publicity recently, and I’m in two minds about it.
Iain Dale likes my blog. Iain gets a lot of traffic, and Iain has written a pamphlet about blogging in which he ranks various blogs. I made it in at #2 out of the Lib Dem blogs (pipped to the post by upstart LDV) and #8 in his aggregated list of blogs of all persuasions. As a result of that, there have been links to me from the Today programme, amongst many others.
I also feature on slightly more evidence-based list on SpyBlog, which ranks bloggers in order of how many people subscribe to them through bloglines. I come in there at #68, which is probably a more likely place for me to be.
It’s quite an achievement to have been listed at all. I don’t write this for accolades, and I don’t do it for the politics. It’s supposed to be a personal blog, not a political one, but as a person very much involved in several levels of the political process, politics impinges on my personal life from time to time. But I never set out to write a political blog that looked personal.
Some of the unexpected consequences of this are that several people I do’t know very well have come up to me at conference and asked me how my cats are. Which is a little freaky.
I deliberately scaled back cat comments in case I was putting off the non-cat lovers who read this. Maybe the cats should feature more highly!
I'm on the list
I’ve been getting a lot of publicity recently, and I’m in two minds about it.
Iain Dale likes my blog. Iain gets a lot of traffic, and Iain has written a pamphlet about blogging in which he ranks various blogs. I made it in at #2 out of the Lib Dem blogs (pipped to the post by upstart LDV) and #8 in his aggregated list of blogs of all persuasions. As a result of that, there have been links to me from the Today programme, amongst many others.
I also feature on slightly more evidence-based list on SpyBlog, which ranks bloggers in order of how many people subscribe to them through bloglines. I come in there at #68, which is probably a more likely place for me to be.
It’s quite an achievement to have been listed at all. I don’t write this for accolades, and I don’t do it for the politics. It’s supposed to be a personal blog, not a political one, but as a person very much involved in several levels of the political process, politics impinges on my personal life from time to time. But I never set out to write a political blog that looked personal.
Some of the unexpected consequences of this are that several people I do’t know very well have come up to me at conference and asked me how my cats are. Which is a little freaky.
I deliberately scaled back cat comments in case I was putting off the non-cat lovers who read this. Maybe the cats should feature more highly!
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