Entries Categorized as 'Companions and familiars'

More wet Irish winter: also, our cartoon cat

Date January 9, 2003

An interesting article here on “The Disruptive Web”. Fascinating stuff…
Meanwhile, it still hasn’t snowed. Something threw off Met Eireann’s forecasts pretty conclusively, this week: I think it was that the weak high which had been sitting over Ireland, and was expected to be pushed aside by the fronts coming in from the […]

Post-Discworld: home life and cat life resume

Date September 8, 2002

It was a lovely convention. Delighted to see that there’s going to be another one in 2004; we’ll be there to wrangle the writers’ workshop again.
Meanwhile, home life has reasserted itself after a brief visit up North to see Peter’s mum. The cats came back from the kennel in good shape. […]

Beemer and the mouse

Date July 28, 2002

Finally, a day which has consisted of nothing that looked like work at all.
Beemer continues to settle in. Her relationship with the other cats is shifting: improving, in at least one case. Goodman, whose early response to her varied between shock/horror and annoyance, seems to have calmed down now to the point where […]

Miss Beemer Purrs

Date July 19, 2002

So Peter says, “I went into the bathroom and she was still hiding behind the towel. I reached down to scratch her, and she came out and went into the ‘igloo’…and once she was in there, I stroked her, and she purred.”