Category Archives: Cats

Blog 88 – 6.8.17. On the train

Posted on Aug 6, 2017 by aintwegotitmade

I remember thinking this before…maybe it was when someone else died…I could see myself on a train…and on this train I’m chugging along and I’m looking out the window and people get on and I am with them and after … Continue reading →

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Blog 87 – 26.7.17. What’s the point?

Posted on Jul 26, 2017 by aintwegotitmade

4.30 am. Wake up. Cry. Brush teeth. Cry. Breakfast. Cry. I don’t want to wake up in a world without my beloved in it. The beloved that is only a cat. Shower. Cry. A lead ball where my heart should … Continue reading →

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Blog 86 – 20.7.17. Living like Troy…

Posted on Jul 21, 2017 by aintwegotitmade

There are times in everyone’s life when something happens that marks a boundary…when things will never be as they were; when things are going to be different.

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Blog 85 – 15.7.17. The privilege of…cleaning litter trays?

Posted on Jul 15, 2017 by aintwegotitmade

This morning, this arrived in my inbox:

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Blog 83 – 8.7.17. Where’s my breakfast?

Posted on Jul 8, 2017 by aintwegotitmade

Cat Troy has not been up the 13 or so steps to the first floor of our house since about April – it’s a painfully slow, one-step-at-a- time process, for a cat who used to race up and down the … Continue reading →

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Blog 82 – 5.7.17… Brave boy Troy…

Posted on Jul 5, 2017 by aintwegotitmade

The indignities of old age. Your bowels and bladder have a mind of their own, everything aches, you are unsteady on your feet and you can’t hear any more. I’m guessing this is what our cat, Troy was thinking when … Continue reading →

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Blog 81 – 21.6.17. All will be well…

Posted on Jun 21, 2017 by aintwegotitmade

It’s quite rare to get a really decent summer in the UK…Wimbledon (starting week after next) is invariably marked by torrential rain…that’s how you know it’s July.

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Blog 75 – 2.7.16. Brexit 2: DON’T read the papers

Posted on Jul 13, 2016 by aintwegotitmade

Chaos, turmoil, back and front stabbing…no it’s not an urban riot, it’s the political elite reeling while the rest of us basically Keep Calm and Carry On. A very British revolution. Here’s my advice to the poor folk who have … Continue reading →

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Achilles Blog 67 – 1.1.15. That was a good year, that was.

Posted on Jan 1, 2015 by aintwegotitmade

On 31st Dec 1969, I remember thinking that it was pretty awesome that we were moving into a whole new decade… and then that got me thinking about the year 2000….when it would surely be like 2001 A Space Odyssey… … Continue reading →

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Achilles Blog 58 – 18.10.14. ‘Would you like some PVC with that, m’am?’

Posted on Oct 18, 2014 by aintwegotitmade

Look away ye squeamish among you… I loved biology at school but had to give it up as I refused to dissect an eyeball… however, yesterday morning I was wielding a sharp, large-bladed knife and hacking chicken thighs into tiny … Continue reading →

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