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I'm bang in the middle of writing a report at the minute and cats to see to later .
But you may have time to read this article .
Its sure to be fascinating .
I read Andrea Gillies fabulous book about Nancy this Summer and loved every minute. In fact , I really didnt want it to end .
How come I'm writing a report and found this? I picked up the paper to help me digest my lunchtime yoghurt- apple and cinammon -with bits. At four pm .
A man has killed five people in Cumbria , near where we were last Friday . It seems he has also shot himself . Urgent public message - Shots fired in Whitehaven
BBC News - Cumbria Police statement on gunman murders
More later .
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Freddie, and Freddie .
Last night I watch a tv programme about personality and career, based on the Child of our Time series.
Due ot the DayJob -now look at that- Ive just reversed my to and ot! What does that mean ? is that evidence of presenile dementia or what? Due to the DayJob I have a fair old knowledge of psychometric ( or personality ) testing and can tell you that its no surprise that despite my high intellect ( at school I was a real high flyer) , I am not earning mega bucks . This is largely , apparently because I score higher on Introversion rather than Extraversion , Agreeableness rather than its opposite , and various other traits which I've now forgotten or don't care to elaborate on here ( lest they should put you off hiring me to look after your cats. Ha ha only joking . )
As I watched I noted my daughter multi tasking on her laptop , chatting on her Blackberry , cursing her father who had switched off his phone and was not available to make the necessary arrangements for their trip today to Nottingham to visit her sister who is off travelling in a couple of days time , headed for, Bangkok, ( gulp) Cambodia etc . and slipping a glance at the tv from time to time , whilst explaining to me the ups and downs of the social lives of various of her pals. Extrovert? I asked myself ... whatever she is , she is nothing like me. Just as well .
This afternoon a message arrived unexpectedly in my Inbox from Merry , copied from Freddie's blog ( I don't quite know how it came to me) and reminding me of Tim and Rachel who initially taught me about blogging with their blog about their baby Fred We Love You Freddie . This inspired me to look at the link provided to Merry's blog about their son , also called Freddie and his very short life and how she and her family are coping. http://www.patchofpuddles.co.uk/ . Her blog is also about homeschooling-fascinating.
Merry writes heartbreakingly about something my sister once tried to explain to me. About having more than one child and the way the love for the new child comes from a different and new place rather than causing a division or a sharing of the love you already feel . So what happens when there is no longer a baby available to accept the love that has been born ? I express it clumsily in contrast to her articulate words borne of pain .
I will read more of her lovely blog when I have the time and the space to take it all in .
You might want to do the same.
Due ot the DayJob -now look at that- Ive just reversed my to and ot! What does that mean ? is that evidence of presenile dementia or what? Due to the DayJob I have a fair old knowledge of psychometric ( or personality ) testing and can tell you that its no surprise that despite my high intellect ( at school I was a real high flyer) , I am not earning mega bucks . This is largely , apparently because I score higher on Introversion rather than Extraversion , Agreeableness rather than its opposite , and various other traits which I've now forgotten or don't care to elaborate on here ( lest they should put you off hiring me to look after your cats. Ha ha only joking . )
As I watched I noted my daughter multi tasking on her laptop , chatting on her Blackberry , cursing her father who had switched off his phone and was not available to make the necessary arrangements for their trip today to Nottingham to visit her sister who is off travelling in a couple of days time , headed for, Bangkok, ( gulp) Cambodia etc . and slipping a glance at the tv from time to time , whilst explaining to me the ups and downs of the social lives of various of her pals. Extrovert? I asked myself ... whatever she is , she is nothing like me. Just as well .
This afternoon a message arrived unexpectedly in my Inbox from Merry , copied from Freddie's blog ( I don't quite know how it came to me) and reminding me of Tim and Rachel who initially taught me about blogging with their blog about their baby Fred We Love You Freddie . This inspired me to look at the link provided to Merry's blog about their son , also called Freddie and his very short life and how she and her family are coping. http://www.patchofpuddles.co.uk/ . Her blog is also about homeschooling-fascinating.
Merry writes heartbreakingly about something my sister once tried to explain to me. About having more than one child and the way the love for the new child comes from a different and new place rather than causing a division or a sharing of the love you already feel . So what happens when there is no longer a baby available to accept the love that has been born ? I express it clumsily in contrast to her articulate words borne of pain .
I will read more of her lovely blog when I have the time and the space to take it all in .
You might want to do the same.
Monday, 31 May 2010
Kirren Island ? Kirrin Island ....ok.
After an early night when I inadvertantly dozed off after a hefty weekend over-indulging , egged on by sister, I woke at some unGodly hour unclear as to why a strange noise was happening in my bedroom . A ringing in my ear. As a heaved myself to a sitting position a book, a cat , and a dog all fell to the floor.
The mobile indicated that it was indeed not terribly late and that the teens had been ringing me from Evolution.
I Blackberry Messaged them ( how impressive am I with this latest of late technology at my fingertips? ) .... did you ring me?
The phone re-rings .
I press the green bar and out blurts a song . I recognise Paulo Nuttini singing squeakily in the far distance and I lie back and watch and listen as the cat collects her thoughts on the floor and eyes me up as her future bed partner. Am I worth it? the dog has already made her decision and is back in situ. Paolo sings on . He is now joined by a gang of teens. After a minute or three the song ends and the phone connection with it .
Within minutes I am asleep but by two am I am awake and reading Rose Tremain and again at four am and seven .
This morning I note via a Twitter message that Kirren Island is indeed Kirrin Island .
This for your information the following :Enid Blyton - The Famous Five including why not make your own Kirrin Island.
After a night like last night I am tempted.
The mobile indicated that it was indeed not terribly late and that the teens had been ringing me from Evolution.
I Blackberry Messaged them ( how impressive am I with this latest of late technology at my fingertips? ) .... did you ring me?
The phone re-rings .
I press the green bar and out blurts a song . I recognise Paulo Nuttini singing squeakily in the far distance and I lie back and watch and listen as the cat collects her thoughts on the floor and eyes me up as her future bed partner. Am I worth it? the dog has already made her decision and is back in situ. Paolo sings on . He is now joined by a gang of teens. After a minute or three the song ends and the phone connection with it .
Within minutes I am asleep but by two am I am awake and reading Rose Tremain and again at four am and seven .
This morning I note via a Twitter message that Kirren Island is indeed Kirrin Island .
This for your information the following :Enid Blyton - The Famous Five including why not make your own Kirrin Island.
After a night like last night I am tempted.
Sunday, 30 May 2010
Escape to Kirren Island
Friday Morning dawns brightly after a dull week and for the first time in nine days my headache is strangely absent .
I load my silly green ( credentially, rather than visually) car with essentials and drive off to Hexham as soon as the teens have left the premises bound for their Physics exam .
Desert Island Discs starts up and I am soon swearing heavily and loudly at the world and the Nazis who sent Stephanie someone , known thereafter as Steve, on KinderTransport to the UK , to be fostered by Auntie and Uncle for the duration . Fortunately Uncle is GoldDust and Auntie introduced her to music and her parents survive the war . Stephanie is of course not unscathed by any means, suffering depression throughout her life until she is suddently freed from this burden in her sixties. Despite having an autistic son to care for she is so successful in business that she is able to give away fifty million pounds.
I meet my sister in Hexham and we drive on to The Lakes , stopping at Melmerby for lattes and scones en route.
By lunchtime we are in Ambleside, the sun is shining , and by six pm we are walking at the waterfall at Kirkstone , looking at the obelisks .
We try for minutes at a time to take a photographic record of the two of us .
It is not a success.
My sister has the results and on her return to her neck of the woods ( she is currently staying with me) she will forward on .
The teens ask by phone where we are but don't pay attention to our replies and do not find out the details of our running away to Kirren Island until Saturday afternoon .
A lovely escape. We should do this more often . Everyone deserves to escape sometimes.
Friday, 21 May 2010
New Location
Well here we are at our new location and hopefully you have all been able to find us somehow or other.
Many thanks for the new suggestions for names. I was really tempted by those with Feline in the title , and almost went with Feline Minder Finder which was one of Silliyak's suggestions, mainly as I had been so keen on the Feline word.
Earlier we had gone so far as to buy the host domain for the name CopyCatCare as I loved that .
This one was D's idea.
I've been suffering insomnia, partly just the time of year , change in the weather , but also partly the shock of being accused of stealing someone else's business idea and name and the upset of having to change everything when I've been using the name cat calls for years albeit in a very small way in this area. Coupled with wondering how it could possibly hurt someone who has a much bigger ( and probably far more professional ) business in London .
So when I woke at four am and saw D's list of new names including CopyCatCare-replicating the care you provide your cats at home whilst you are away- it made me laugh and think , well , a certain irony there!
However in the end my sister suggested CatMinders and I kept being drawn to that by its simplicity and by the fact that I could hear myself saying it on the phone whereas the other two were a little more cumbersome .
So CatMinders we are and I shall spend the weekend re designing business cards and trying to get the website up and running though I am not sure whether anyone ever really used it. I think I operate mainly by word of mouth and have about three or four customers all told ! Suits me very well .
Many thanks for the new suggestions for names. I was really tempted by those with Feline in the title , and almost went with Feline Minder Finder which was one of Silliyak's suggestions, mainly as I had been so keen on the Feline word.
Earlier we had gone so far as to buy the host domain for the name CopyCatCare as I loved that .
This one was D's idea.
I've been suffering insomnia, partly just the time of year , change in the weather , but also partly the shock of being accused of stealing someone else's business idea and name and the upset of having to change everything when I've been using the name cat calls for years albeit in a very small way in this area. Coupled with wondering how it could possibly hurt someone who has a much bigger ( and probably far more professional ) business in London .
So when I woke at four am and saw D's list of new names including CopyCatCare-replicating the care you provide your cats at home whilst you are away- it made me laugh and think , well , a certain irony there!
However in the end my sister suggested CatMinders and I kept being drawn to that by its simplicity and by the fact that I could hear myself saying it on the phone whereas the other two were a little more cumbersome .
So CatMinders we are and I shall spend the weekend re designing business cards and trying to get the website up and running though I am not sure whether anyone ever really used it. I think I operate mainly by word of mouth and have about three or four customers all told ! Suits me very well .
Thursday, 20 May 2010
New Blog Name
After much deliberation and suggestions from friends and cat lovers from far and wide , many of which had to be turned down because they are already in use , we will probably use CatMinders as our new name or some version of this .
I will explain the reasons for this on the new blog once we get set up and many thanks to all for your very helpful suggestions.
So , when you can no longer find us at http://www.catcalls13.blogspot.com/ you need to be looking at http://www.catminders.blogspot.com/ though we havent yet registered this new name yet . If in the meantime someone else registers this name we will simply chose another version of catminders with a number. As we did with catcalls adding the 13. I trust though that you will find us!
If you can't locate us, don't give up , we will be there, use my email address SMScott13@aol.com and contact me that way !
We should be moving by the weekend .
Just giving people who read at the weekends a chance to catch up.
I will explain the reasons for this on the new blog once we get set up and many thanks to all for your very helpful suggestions.
So , when you can no longer find us at http://www.catcalls13.blogspot.com/ you need to be looking at http://www.catminders.blogspot.com/ though we havent yet registered this new name yet . If in the meantime someone else registers this name we will simply chose another version of catminders with a number. As we did with catcalls adding the 13. I trust though that you will find us!
If you can't locate us, don't give up , we will be there, use my email address SMScott13@aol.com and contact me that way !
We should be moving by the weekend .
Just giving people who read at the weekends a chance to catch up.
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
CatCalls-The Blog
CatCalls-The Blog
It is with regret that I have to inform you that the CatCalls blog as it stands will have to change.
This has come about as a result of contact from a Ms Jane Matthews (aka Lucinda Lace) who unknown to me has also been running a cat minding service by the name of Cat Calls ( same name though a gap between the two names) in London.
Ms Matthews sadly does not feel that our two services can co exist and as she bought the trademark Cat Calls in 2009 I am in the position of having to rename my services. Ms Matthews operates at www.catcalls.com : readers of the blog in the London area requiring a cat sitting service may wish to avail themselves of her services.
As yet I am undecided as to the name of the new local service here in the North East : Any ideas gratefully received!!
As regular readers know , I operate a very small scale cat sitting service , providing cat sitting for a very small number of regular customers, and the whole operation is more of a hobby than a business enterprise.
The blog which started when I was ill with pneumonia and unable to do anything very much apart from write and read other blogs and the daily newspaper( where I first discovered blogs and the art of blogging) will continue therefore with a different name and once that is decided I will explain how to navigate to the new blog!
I know that the blog now attracts a very small number of regular followers ,some as far afield as San Jose and Chicago, most of whom probably have very little connection to my cat minding activities and hope that you will find the new blog interesting and that a new lease of life will prove a bonus for all.
It is with regret that I have to inform you that the CatCalls blog as it stands will have to change.
This has come about as a result of contact from a Ms Jane Matthews (aka Lucinda Lace) who unknown to me has also been running a cat minding service by the name of Cat Calls ( same name though a gap between the two names) in London.
Ms Matthews sadly does not feel that our two services can co exist and as she bought the trademark Cat Calls in 2009 I am in the position of having to rename my services. Ms Matthews operates at www.catcalls.com : readers of the blog in the London area requiring a cat sitting service may wish to avail themselves of her services.
As yet I am undecided as to the name of the new local service here in the North East : Any ideas gratefully received!!
As regular readers know , I operate a very small scale cat sitting service , providing cat sitting for a very small number of regular customers, and the whole operation is more of a hobby than a business enterprise.
The blog which started when I was ill with pneumonia and unable to do anything very much apart from write and read other blogs and the daily newspaper( where I first discovered blogs and the art of blogging) will continue therefore with a different name and once that is decided I will explain how to navigate to the new blog!
I know that the blog now attracts a very small number of regular followers ,some as far afield as San Jose and Chicago, most of whom probably have very little connection to my cat minding activities and hope that you will find the new blog interesting and that a new lease of life will prove a bonus for all.
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