It was my birthday at the weekend.
On Friday my husband suddenly announced that he was taking me for an impromptu weekend trip to Bruges in Belgium - so we flung a few clothes into a bag and off we toddled.
If anyone hasn’t visited Bruges… it’s one of those things you must do before you die. [...]
We decided to keep three of the kittens in the end. This week they had their debut in the big wide outdoor world.
It’s been wonderful watching them explore their new domain. The sheds and woodstores have been popular - there are some great hiding places.
Helping (ahem) with the gardening is also a new favourite pastime.
And [...]
For months we’ve all been dreaming about it… even our neo-nazi-lookalike cat has spent a long Winter of the soul waiting for the Summer to arrive again.
Well now it’s here (even if only temporarily) … and our entire family life has moved outside. Not just the tables and chairs… but also the washing, bicycles, the [...]
You already know that my daughter’s cat is currently under suspicion of being a nazi infiltrator in our household. Well, I suspect that he’s now started to expand his influence within the household… let me explain.
Over the past week or so, my dear husband has been suffering from a bad cold. Now, those of you [...]
The kittens are all growing up now… and it’s utter, total mayhem in our house. Wherever you try to step….wherever you try to sit down, there’s a kitten there already. By the time you’re reading this post I’ll probably have broken my neck.
Even something as simple as putting a box on the floor with old [...]
Our cat Sooty gave birth to five beautiful kittens four weeks ago.
For anyone who hasn’t had this experience… I thought I’d tell the story of a month in kittens.
When they’re first born they look like this - sort of blind mouse-creatures with claws and whiskers.
By three weeks of full-fat mother’s milk, they’re more like fat [...]
I’m worried about my daughter’s cat.
Here in Germany the Green Party is running a set of posters alerting people to the risk of a new rise in neo-nazism. The posters look like this.
Well of course I thought nothing of it when I saw the posters, other than admiring a nice bit of photo-shop manipulation. I [...]
One of the questions I get asked a lot since I wrote Planet Germany is whether the incidents described in the book actually happened. I mean, surely not. Nobody’s household is that chaotic.
Like the time I tried to have a party and made hot curry for an entire legion of Germans. You know, the [...]
