Happy New Year!
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bunnI keep thinking of things to post here and then not actually getting around to making the post when I'm sitting at a computer.
Never mind. Happy New Year to you all.
A cheerful apologetic wave to those people who optimistically sent Christmas cards despite my dismal record on that front.
I shall now attempt some bullet points about things I considered posting about in December 2025 but failed to.
- Foster-kitties Tabby and Rosa went back to the rescue having put on a fair bit of weight. They had a potential home offer, but I'm not sure if that fell through, since we haven't heard any more about them.
- Instead we were asked to take in Binx, a black cat with a white tuft, and her two-week-old kittens, Gus-gus and Dumpling. They are now coming up to seven weeks old, have sprouted ridiculous long legs, and learned to climb and prance hilariously.
- The idea that Binx would teach the kittens about the litter tray did not appear to work. However, after a few random wees, putting two very shallow litter trays in locations that the kittens had previously chosen, and plonking them in the litter trays every time we went into the room did.
- I decided that the random shoes that arrived through the post over a year ago with no name on them, which nobody in the village admitted to having ordered, had aged sufficiently that I could sell them on ebay, so I did. (I suppose I could have donated them, but the local charity shops seem very unenthusiastic about donations, and I find I need to be feeling quite strong before I can march in and hand things to a sighing volunteer. )
- since the cold cleared and we have had quite a lot of calm, clear weather, I've been sea swimming a few times with the Hazelbeach group. I went today, in fact, and it was the coldest swim yet: it definitely helps if you've been exercising enough to get warm before you get into the sea, even in boots, gloves and my shortie wetsuit.
- Theo completed his scentwork course, which was fun, but he clearly thought it rather easy. There is an exam, but I'm not sure we shall bother with that.
- Went to visit my Mum; came back over the old Severn Bridge. My family lived in Swansea till I was 12, so every holiday involved that bridge: stopping there for the first time in about 40 years was a strange, nostalgic moment.
- Mum, Theo and I went to the Christmas Tree festival at St Eustachius's. It was a very good one. I think I voted for the tree celebrating the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site, which had a really good mining chimney. For a Christmas tree, anyway.
- Pp has hurt a finger, bending it backwards in a manner that seems likely to require minor surgery to fix. In the mean time it is strapped up in a brace, which is annoying rather than painful.
- We bought Nordmann firs (one for upstairs, one for downstairs) from Pen Parc Festive Trees this year, which meant we got to trek through a chilly field and pick out the trees. They certainly seem to be holding their needles a lot better than in previous years. Nordmann is a fine wood to carve, too, though I didn't take a chunk off to carve over the festive season. I'll have to wait till 12th night to take my carving wood for this year's decoration.
- there are flowers on the rosemary bushes, and today I found some primroses despite the frosted ground.
Never mind. Happy New Year to you all.
A cheerful apologetic wave to those people who optimistically sent Christmas cards despite my dismal record on that front.
I shall now attempt some bullet points about things I considered posting about in December 2025 but failed to.
- Foster-kitties Tabby and Rosa went back to the rescue having put on a fair bit of weight. They had a potential home offer, but I'm not sure if that fell through, since we haven't heard any more about them.
- Instead we were asked to take in Binx, a black cat with a white tuft, and her two-week-old kittens, Gus-gus and Dumpling. They are now coming up to seven weeks old, have sprouted ridiculous long legs, and learned to climb and prance hilariously.
- The idea that Binx would teach the kittens about the litter tray did not appear to work. However, after a few random wees, putting two very shallow litter trays in locations that the kittens had previously chosen, and plonking them in the litter trays every time we went into the room did.
- I decided that the random shoes that arrived through the post over a year ago with no name on them, which nobody in the village admitted to having ordered, had aged sufficiently that I could sell them on ebay, so I did. (I suppose I could have donated them, but the local charity shops seem very unenthusiastic about donations, and I find I need to be feeling quite strong before I can march in and hand things to a sighing volunteer. )
- since the cold cleared and we have had quite a lot of calm, clear weather, I've been sea swimming a few times with the Hazelbeach group. I went today, in fact, and it was the coldest swim yet: it definitely helps if you've been exercising enough to get warm before you get into the sea, even in boots, gloves and my shortie wetsuit.
- Theo completed his scentwork course, which was fun, but he clearly thought it rather easy. There is an exam, but I'm not sure we shall bother with that.
- Went to visit my Mum; came back over the old Severn Bridge. My family lived in Swansea till I was 12, so every holiday involved that bridge: stopping there for the first time in about 40 years was a strange, nostalgic moment.
- Mum, Theo and I went to the Christmas Tree festival at St Eustachius's. It was a very good one. I think I voted for the tree celebrating the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site, which had a really good mining chimney. For a Christmas tree, anyway.
- Pp has hurt a finger, bending it backwards in a manner that seems likely to require minor surgery to fix. In the mean time it is strapped up in a brace, which is annoying rather than painful.
- We bought Nordmann firs (one for upstairs, one for downstairs) from Pen Parc Festive Trees this year, which meant we got to trek through a chilly field and pick out the trees. They certainly seem to be holding their needles a lot better than in previous years. Nordmann is a fine wood to carve, too, though I didn't take a chunk off to carve over the festive season. I'll have to wait till 12th night to take my carving wood for this year's decoration.
- there are flowers on the rosemary bushes, and today I found some primroses despite the frosted ground.
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Date: 2026-01-01 11:41 am (UTC)I'm not sure how cold the sea was yesterday, but my car was reporting it was 4 degrees C yesterday, so pretty nippy! I think the water was actually warmer than the air.