Gratuitous cat picture
Doesn’t need comment, does it? Picture is worth n words.
Posted: 25-Aug-2010 | /life_and_art/wonderful_world | link | 0 comments
This is a picture of Lionel, my Useless Blob.
He's really here, jumping up and down. To adopt your own Useless Blob, click on him.

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25-Aug-2010
Doesn’t need comment, does it? Picture is worth n words.
Posted: 25-Aug-2010 | /life_and_art/wonderful_world | link | 0 comments
14-Apr-2010
On one of the last days that the swimming pool was still open before they closed it for maintenance, I saw two unfamiliar birds in the road that was already closed for maintenance. Black and white, the size of a gull but slimmer, long red beak, aggressive movements, and when they saw me coming with the camera they flew away shouting “Peep! Ta-PEEP!”
We don’t seem to have a bird guide, and online taxonomy sites didn’t help much, but I think they were oystercatchers. There aren’t many oysters to be caught in our town (those at the restaurant across the road from our house have already been caught by someone else) but Wikipedia says “they breed far inland”. The map on that page shows them not quite so far to the east in the Netherlands, but the picture looks exactly like the birds I saw.
Posted: 14-Apr-2010 | /life_and_art/wonderful_world | link | 0 comments
25-Mar-2010
Outside the supermarket, a few meters to the side of the entrance, there was this puddle of red ink-like liquid. Surely it can’t all have come from the little container lying in it?

Nobody was paying any attention to it, and when I took four pictures from different sides nobody paid attention to me, as if the whole thing was invisible.

It was still flowing: in the first photo there isn’t any liquid in the crack between the tiles, and in the second there is.
My best guess is theatrical blood, but I’m open to suggestions.
Posted: 25-Mar-2010 | /life_and_art/wonderful_world | link | 0 comments
02-Nov-2009
This one was sitting on our next door neighbours’ [1] window sill and wanted scritches. Later, she sat on the window sill of the shop across the road and wanted more scritches.
[1] who are dog people, definitely not cat people.
Posted: 02-Nov-2009 | /life_and_art/wonderful_world | link | 0 comments
(late October)
Across the road from where the other lot was, popping up almost a month later and in much greater number.
There were even some on the bike path.
Posted: 02-Nov-2009 | /life_and_art/wonderful_world | link | 0 comments
08-Oct-2009
(last week of September)
They were gone in a few days, though. Probably because of the warm weather.
Posted: 08-Oct-2009 | /life_and_art/wonderful_world | link | 0 comments
… but how do I get in?
Here’s the cat that tried to sample our roast beef. We used to call him and his sister “the Cats of Little Brain” because last summer, whenever they saw us on the roof terrace, they looked up longingly, mewing, without seeing the obvious way up; but this one seems to have figured it out.
Posted: 08-Oct-2009 | /life_and_art/wonderful_world | link | 0 comments
At last I’ve cleared my folder of cat pictures! I’ve given up trying to bake cupcakes for humans belonging to any cats appearing here.
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The scruffy-looking stray kitten only didn’t run away as it saw me because it really wanted to lick the last drops of chocolate milk from the tin. The haughty one next to it is called Keesje and lives in the same house as the black tomcat one shouldn’t ring the bell for, who turns out to be called Beau. There’s also a Kareltje, but I haven’t seen him yet.
Posted: 08-Oct-2009 | /life_and_art/wonderful_world | link | 0 comments
25-Feb-2009
Only the pictures of the black kitten are really recent (one of his humans allowed me in on a Tuesday night after early music and let me pet him). The rest are from my serendipity generator: screensaver that shows all my pictures as a slideshow. The calico sleeping with the orange curtain as backdrop was the one that prompted the gratuitous-cat-pictures series, but I thought I’d overwritten it with another of the same filename.
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If you recognise your cat, please claim your cupcakes by giving me your street address! Nobody ever has: all my readers live on the other side of the world and/or don’t have cats (well, except one, you know who you are, and I’ll catch your cats on camera yet and bake something savoury for you instead).
Posted: 25-Feb-2009 | /life_and_art/wonderful_world | link | 0 comments
05-Jan-2009
Not Frozen Bubble (or play it here; works with Firefox, doesn’t work with Konqueror, haven’t tried anything else. Update: it’s a frames site <grr>, you have to find it from the menu), but real frozen bubbles. Next time it’s so cold that spit goes “clink” I want to try this too.
Posted: 05-Jan-2009 | /life_and_art/wonderful_world | link | 0 comments
Orthodox Christians should write and paint and sing and dance. We should make movies and television shows. We should make clothes and produce textiles as art as well (the fullness of culture is itself too large to describe in a sentence, a paragraph or even a book). And in all these activities, they will be expressive of the fullness of our humanity without having to stick an icon on everything to prove its Orthodoxy.
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