Tag: Henry

In Mew of Cats

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That’s Fritz. I was warned to stay well away from him. He is a mean, old farmyard tomcat. But I still think he’s beautiful.

That’s Louis and Charlie, both are natives of Saudi Arabia who have settled in Northwestern England.

I don’t know this kittie’s name, it was a chance encounter while I was out and about.

She’s just called Klara although I think she should be named something like Lady Klarabelle Chasseuse de Souris von Maushofen.

And the best comes at the end, of course. Henry – his mind and his eyes fixed on a singular purpose.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Animals – Farm or Wild

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Black Cat

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Jude picked black as the November colour for her Life in Colour Challenge.

What better way to start black November than with Henry, the black cat in our life (who incidentally has draped himself over my arms while I am typing this, slowly numbing them)?

Here are some of the photos I took of Henry over time. He turned three in August. He wasn’t really planned for but he needed a home and he moved in.

Henry for Live in Colour in November

I’m Tired of This

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When I saw the prompt encephalopathy I started to look for brains in my archive hoping for a mushroom that looked like one or maybe a poster or mural. Then I read the rest of the description and saw the added myalgic.

Myalgic encephalopathy – aka: chronic fatigue. I don’t know anyone with that affliction, I thought — and then: Stop! Of course, I do know somebody who suffers from that. I actually live with somebody who sleeps most of the day, anytime, anywhere. Meet Henry – who is lucky enough that for him it is considered normal what in others is considered an illness.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Encephalopathy

Break up

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Luckily this break up did not lead to the break up of Henry’s relationship with me. I bought a new teapot. And placed it further back on the shelf. I should also add that Henry hasn’t been on the shelf since then. At least not when I am around.

UP Square #23.

The successor of Kater Murr

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The writer in the family, Henry, prefers writing by paw although he can also use the keyboard of the computer.

Sometimes finding the right words is agony.

But once the work is done he can sleep the sleep of the just.

Kater Murr is the feline fictional writer of the autobiography The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr. Murr, who is a proper fuddy-duddy of his time (early 19th century), writes his thoughts about his life and life in general on scrap paper he finds. On the flipsides of the papers are the fragments of a biography of the musician Kreisler, where ETA Hoffmann, the German Romantic-era author, set down his thoughts on art. The whole novel contrasts these two lives on opposite sides of the scale, it offers deep intellectual insights on Hoffmann’s ideas about art and aesthetics on the one hand, and humourous and wild anecdotes of the life of a tomcat.

Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Write.