Birthday Cats

Guess how old Tony is? It’s not old at all if you write it in cats…

An Eyeballing

I chucked some branches of cotoneaster horizontalis* in with the chickens. The branches were covered in berries and I thought … More

I was up in Cumbria for the weekend, swimming, but that’s another story. Fleetingly, driving out of Great Langdale, I … More

Percy on Vincent van Gogh’s chair. Van Gogh was also ginger, now I come to think of it, though it … More

Percy is having to train up a new cushion to his liking. Arthur deliberately sat on his favourite red cushion … More

Cat-of-the-Day: Je suis Charlie. On the whole, Arthur and Percy have no views on current events, but we wanted to … More

This is Percy’s favourite cushion. There are several other cushions, but Percy’s white hairs whisper to him and tell him … More

Yesterday at Vobster, getting out of the lake after the last swim of the year. Wave cheerily to the nice … More

Tiberius, our Light Sussex Cockerel, has grown into a fine chap in the three months or so that we have … More

It is Boxing Day and there are unfamiliar and suspicious people in the house. In the greenhouse there is almost … More