Cat nap literally!

Yesterday I was exhausted, totally and in that "can barely move" way let alone think way!
I decided to have a rest after doing what I had to in the am. So after lunch I retired
to the bedroom where Fergus was already napping happily at the foot of the bed on the cat blanky. He took one look at me and went back to napping as I crawled under the duvet.
A couple of hours later I awoke feeling so good. I dreamed of a tiger and this tiger had come up to me and hugged me and tried to say something. Its lips were trying to form human words! The tiger looked long, warmly and soulfully into my eyes and gave me a parting hug.
I felt wonderful after this cat nap. Recovered and restored, ready to turn on the lights in a darkening cottage and start cooking a delicious dinner. Broccoli, mushrooms, soybeans, and prawns stir fried mmm...yummy!

Congratulations Elizabeth!

Elizabeth Alexander has been chosen to be Barack Obama's Inaugural Poet in January 2009. Congratulations Elizabeth!
See Bloodaxe Books site for more information on this poet and see her read!

Catmas

What are you giving your cat for Catmas?
I say these are very spiffy.
Our cats seem so comfy wherever they plop down.

Katatonic

I am so excited about the facebook group Feline Follies!
This katt is the image for it and you can join if you are a cat lover of course!
I am so cat mad, feline fuzzy and purry furry it is almost embarrasing. But it is not.
Do check it out on Facebook. Miao or is it Meow?

Cat mania feline folly

While I am in this warm and fuzzy mood I may as well wax lyrical about our beloved feline friends!
Luna the mother of Sofie, black and toffee, Myles, grey and white, and Fergus, red and white. She came to live with me as a kitten the first year I lived here and we bonded immediately on the way home in the car. The kittens were born a day after my fiftieth birthday and what a gift they were! Are! They are a lovely family. Living here altogether sharing Sheep Cottage is a privilege.
Noah bonded very closely with Sofie and she lives with him now in Hexham.
We are a family all of us and love to be together cosy, reading, napping, eating, and cuddling. They also sleep with us! Can be challenging because I wake up when there is activity around the bed.
I have never been this connected before and I love this interspecies relationship experience. So does Noah. This is the first time we have been able to live with animals, before we lived in urban settings in apartments.

Day in Hexham

The Frith Chair


Greg Bureau owner of Bouchon

Thanks to Noah I spent a lovely day and eve in Hexham our closest market town. There was a Christmas Fayre on all around the Abbey with two reindeer in a small paddock with hay on the Abbey green, lots of stalls; food stalls, craft stalls, organic meat stalls, game and wild fowl, local cheeses, chutneys galore, organic vegetables, smoked fish, olives and feta, handwoven baskets, leather goods,local pottery, you name it...
We did some shopping and got very excited about our upcoming supper of pheasant and oak smoked Scottish salmon,mmm... yummy.
Although it was pouring rain throughout people were milling about and we even saw some people we knew. That is a great thing here in the UK that weather does not really come into the picture as much of a deterrent. People still ramble the country side go out to markets and spend time in their gardens working.
I bought a green wreath for the cottage door, and I will tie a red ribbon around it to hang it up with, some tissue wrapping paper and a couple of gifts.
We went into the Abbey which was also full of stalls and a cafe! We also shared some of our favourite things there with eachother. The Frith chair for one.
Then we went home down the hill of Gilesgate, where Noah's favourite restaurant Bouchon lies, and had a lovely hot cuppa tea with Sofie back home at Noah's.
I was knitting while we watched the last episodes of Little Dorritt that I had recorded and we had such a cosy fun afternoon although we cried our eyes out
over some very sad events in the story. I felt like a real granny with Sofie on my lap and knitting away!
Then we had a most delicious supper together. Noah is a great cook he really is.
Pheasant cooked with vegetables in a Schlemmertopf, roast potatoes and I drank soy milk of all things! The salmon was out of this world! Afterwards we drank jasmine tea and talked for ages about topics like making films. He has this idea for a film he has wanted to make for a while now and is going ahead with! Power to him! We had a truely wonderful time together it was too bad I had to go back home early but the weather was getting worse with the rain turning to sleet and even snow by the time I got home.