She is a talkative beast at the best of times – she always answers when addressed, and she has learned that I can’t hear the top of her vocal range, so, these days, I don’t get the silent miaows that she used to try on when she was younger.
Recently, though, she has started squeaking and mewing when she is asleep. I have never seen this in a cat before, though we are, I’m sure, all familiar with dogs chasing rabbits, or maybe being chased by rabbits, depending on the whimpering, in their sleep. Anyone else seen this?
I have put a picture on Ara’s photography competition post on my son’s holiday in Ghana. But for those that have not seen that one then I put another here. Kojo has been away two months now, with his mother, and is due back in the UK next week. He has had a great time. He is outside the house most of the day, playing with other kids, with a ball or a hoop, chasing chickens and counting stars. (I am told the girls are chasing him!)
I shall re-create a mini Christmas day, on the day of his arrival back home; loads of prezzies to open and a small tree to marvel at. You can be sure I have missed him and his mother.
The Australian press is quite complimentary about the wee chap, and definitely supportive of his second attempt at an Australian Grand Slam title. Â I’m sure the crowd at the Rod Laver Arena will be barracking for him tomorrow.
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The answer was Richard Jaeckel. It was only a difficult question if you didn’t know the answer. Knowing the answer gave me full bragging rights. My son looked at me with a mixture of awe and contempt. I milked the silence for all it was worth and then compounded his misery. Continue reading “No gesture out of place”
Only a couple of days to go and we have five entries. Â You still have time.
A while, ago, one of us suggested that it might be a nice idea to vote on the stories. I’ve been playing around with the poll facility in WordPress and I’m minded to try having a readers’ vote on the entries. Â I really like Bearsy’s ‘Packing Room’ prize as a concept and I personally see no harm in everybody else sticking in their oars as well. I could, of course, be wrong.
So, as an experiment, I’m trying to set a poll up. It might go horribly wrong and it won’t matter if it does because I still intend to select the winner myself , whatever the result of said poll.
Rules:
A work of whatever length you wish and in whatever genre you choose  on the theme of looking forward or looking back.
Prescribed words: ‘party’, ‘permanent’ and ‘accident’.
Not essential if you choose not  to work  them into your effort but  I will give serious weight to their creative use in the event of a tie.
Deadline: Â 12 midnight GMT on 31st January 2011.
Entries to Date – please click on the author’s name to read their entry
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
William Wordsworth
Boadicea's Chariot 
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