oh dear..
A thousand stumbling apologies, gentle reader, no real excuses for ignoring the blog other than miserable weather and a general disinclination to do anything but the minimum required to ensure survival. Now it's spring time; there are signs of life, and above all, the snow has gone.What has happened since February? you may quite reasonably ask... Well, the deeside household has now officially swelled by one. The cat has been chipped, vaccinated and emptied his bladder in both cars, and today he took possession of a brand new magnetic cat-flap. He has shown little interest in the latter, preferring to snooze on his saltbag, occasionally casting a jaundiced eye on the filthy weather (see ill.), although he went out through it when encouraged.
The last dump of snow didn't really take us by surprise, as the cooncil cassandra service had been predicting doom for several weeks. I was washing up one evening when I saw a small herd of five deer pass the kitchen window, the Arts Correspondent was able to snatch a picture of them investigating the lid of the septic tank on her iPhone, for which I thank her. The word on the street (or in the glen), is that the deer are very underweight as a consequence of the long hard winter. Certainly there is much evidence of ring barking on the shrubs and trees, hopefully the late spring will catch up soon, and there'll be plenty of greenery for all.
Labels: cat flaps
posted by Lampy @ 4/06/2010 03:04:00 pm
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