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Showing posts with label cats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cats. Show all posts
Wednesday, 19 March 2025

In our arts we find our bliss…

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I have a cat I have a cat who comes to me but not into my arms she comes instead for blessings and to bring me magic charms by ...
Sunday, 16 March 2025

Postscritch: The railway kitten…

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When writing about my first (that wasn’t my parents’) cat, Jay , I forgot — goodness knows how: as my jaw still bounces off my slippers thi...
Wednesday, 7 February 2024

A Tale of Two Kitties…

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A rather camera-shy Petronius the Arbiter The first cat is the steepest… I was outside Darwen rather than Damascus: however, the conver...
Thursday, 18 November 2021

Farewell, my Little Man…

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And so succeeded. For Felix, with immense gratitude and love… – we shall not look upon your like again. Like Jesus, he came down to Ea...
Tuesday, 21 April 2020

Lockdown diary #4:
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below…

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Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip’s bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat’s back I do fly After summer...
Sunday, 29 December 2019

Felix the flopsicle cat…

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Felix the flopsicle cat, and Felix the affable cat, are one and the same, of course… – but what should be said about that? Felix the...
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Saturday, 31 August 2019

Let it die as it was born…

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I didn’t even have time to focus my binoculars. The shock slammed them hard against my surprised spectacles: anomalous barriers carving the ...
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Friday, 22 June 2018

Eat, prey, fluff…

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It is an overwhelming and life-affirming privilege to share the existence of another sentient creature: one devoted to you, and dependent on...
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Wednesday, 7 October 2015

It’s National Poetry Day…!

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For the Guardian of Minack (October 1987) This afternoon I found           that you had died      And I was glad           th...
Monday, 31 March 2014

A little herd of England’s timorous deer…

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The National Trust’s Charlecote Park is one of my favourite places to wander around: especially West Park – home to the main breedi...
Friday, 14 February 2014

For Martyr Valentinus (or even Lupercalia…)

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Missingness I knew she wasn’t home When the cat came to greet me Cuddled up on the window’s ledge And hungry for his love ...