Well, today will be brief because I needed some research done by mama and she is so deep into The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (two BRILLIANT writers, mama says) that she could not take the time to bother with me at the computer. Can you imagine? Mama says that no one’s life should be without...
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That’s clearly not I, but you get the picture.. Oh, boy, am I in the cat house… Mama came downstairs this morning and saw that SOMEONE had found and opened and munched on one of the bird-balls that mama puts in our lemon tree to feed the fine feathered friends in winter. And you should have seen her face when I starting warbling a few hours later,...
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Not our fireplace but close enough… Well, here I am by the fire that mama made, waiting for papa to come and massage my lithe, supple little body and outside the rain has begun (perhaps we have a monsoon season here) with its soft melody falling on mama’s glass skylight, which is a soothing sound, I can tell you, and I have just had my nice...
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I thought lapse are what you snuggle up on…haha Now, maybe this doesn’t happen to you, but mama is only curious if others have the problem of gallivanting off to the market or the bakery or wherever, buying something, starting to talk with a friend who has turned up or even just starting to talk with the vendor or the check out person, whoever,...
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Oh, boy, mama has sent papa off to our huge grand surface supermarket, which is saying something, I realize, redundant (whatever that means), but mama has this tenet that she never seems to be able to keep in mind—NEVER, but NEVER send a guy to supermarket when he’s hungry. That probaby goes for females, too, but in this case it was a male who went...
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Oh, boy, mama and papa left me here with the radio on and a soprano belting out something pretty wonderful, but mama told me that she and papa went to hear a young Chinese coloratura soprano, Sihui Qiu, hit some notes that mama said she didn’t know existed. She said she was glad they weren’t drinking wine at this concert because all the glasses...
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Do you ever have one of those days on which you just don’t know what to write? Not that there are not subjects to write about and not that my little pea brain has no opinions about the state of the world, but you know, just one of those moments in which your mind is spinning about so many things that it just won’t settle on one? Well,...
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Well, mama helped me with this post yesterday and it has gotten lost in the Clouds, haha. So here it is again–various kitties as painted or drawn by mama because she’s pretty sure no one goes to the art page and she wanted me to post these, just for a lark. I thought a lark wouldn’t be interested, but you never know… There are...
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Oh, boy, mama and papa came back yesterday (after leaving me ALONE all day long) from a little trip they have wanted to try out for months: the French fast train, the TGV, now goes from Perpignan to Barcelona in about an hour and a half–no muss, no fuss. Mama, who can never get enough of trains, says that on a train, you can daydream, look at...
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Photo by a volunteer at Kings on the Kings River in Palmier, California–thank you. Well, could I get along with over 700 cats on 12 acres in Parlier, California if I had to? Mama’s sister-in-law sent this great website about the cat refuge not far from her. Can’t answer that right now, but evidently all of those kitties have a lovely life...
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Bu Well, this is just amazing: the day of blessing of pets in Spain–St Antonio, Spain’s patron saint of animals. For a warm and fuzzy feeling, take a look at these sweet animals brought by their parents to be blessed by the priest. My friend, Sasha, lived in Vancouver and her mama sent this to my mama. Sasha is a Maine Coon and getting on in...
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Okay, I’m a bit late but I’m finally getting around to mama’s comfort food fish pie recipe, with which I helped her by peeling the skin off the fish when she was too busy to do it, and I could tell she was really grateful for that, having forgotten the piece of fish on the counter… So you’ll need: 500 g of white fish filets plus a...
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Mama’s brother as a young piper. Today mama’s brother is 80 years old. Today he is moving into what is called The Memory Wing of the rest home where he has been for some time, at least since he began having trouble with his own memory and other physical problems. So much going on in the world, but mama is thinking only of her only brother and...
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Well, I was going to write about fish pie, but the cartoon on the cover of Charlie Hebdo and the resulting clash of literary and religious swords after its publication made me think about how these differences between so many people could be resolved. And I was thinking that when mama and papa have a dinner party, there are all kinds of people around the...
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s Well, mama came back from the open market all bubbling and happy because a defunct restaurant down the road has been taken over by a very nice couple, Jinette and Laurence, otherwise known as Gina and Lorenzo (they say—Italian origins) who are going to serve mediterranean food and lots of fish things. But mostly, mama is happy because the previous owner,...
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We even have the same colors in our flag! WE KITTIES ARE CHARLIE. Our government has acknowledged its mistake in not sending an important representative immediately. But as a staunch supporter of our President (even if he does have a doggie, not one of US), I was deeply disturbed by his choice to remain at home instead of being at the rally in...
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( WOW–Thank you Jan, at Jan’s Funny Farm, who sent mama some easy instructions on how to use Picasa and here I am in psychedelic splendour! (And here’s another one–sort of Japanese, no? ) Sometimes, this is exactly how I feel when sleeping, because I have pretty weird dreams and this fits right in! For example, one night I dreamed...
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I wish to say right here that the young Malian man,Lassana Bathily, a Muslim, who saved the kosher supermarket clients by rushing them into the refrigerator room and turning off the cold and the lights should get more than a medal. What an amazing courageous act–keeping his head in such a situation while there is such panic and fear. When asked...
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Mama says it’s really hard to discern the differences between satiric free expression and calculated hate incitement through writing or cartooning or public speech. Papa says that if you are in a theatre in the USA and you call, “FIRE”, just for fun, say or to disrupt the gathering, you can be arrested because it’s against...
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(Merci, Variety.com) Well, all of us in France are in shock, as you may well have seen on the news. I was watching with mama and papa and saw the video of the killers at Charlie Hebdo, the outspoken newspaper in Paris that satirizes so many things—people, politics, religion and more. But the French believe, above all, in freedom of the press and thousands...
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