Test Pattern

UPDATE

Blech.

“Reality,’ sa molesworth 2, ‘is so unspeakably sordid it make me shudder.'”

Sorry, but other than this update I’m taking the day off today too. The thing about this weather is things that can only be done iin good weather build up and then have to be done all at once while it’s dry, though not necessarily while I’m well enough to do them. By unfortunate circumstance these days because of the kidney/malabsorption thing I can’t do physical effort without a horrible backlash.

Bah.

At least it’s sunny again, fingers crossed, so I can for once sit in the garden with cats and cushions and tea and medication and read. I can only read in the graden atm because I need very bright light to read by.

I shall be mostly reading Eric Schlosser’s Reefer Madness, finally, and a thriller by Paul Mcauley (no, me either) called Mind’s Eye which has already in the first two chapters declared the author’s deep debt to Le Carre and to China Mieville. Still, it rattles along, unlike me, which is why I need to go and sit quietly for a while..

Why not do the same? Go on, let the internet go hang for once, go out and look at the sky and the trees, be a fotherington-thomas, get a little perspective. It does us all good now and then.

“Hello clouds, hello sky, hello trees!”
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I. have some stuff to do, so here’s Sophie for quick cuteness hit.

Little madam.

Because Cats Are Stoners Too

Not satisfied with just leaving cats to their own narcotic devices with garden catnip, US manufacturers have refined catnip into skunk-like potency, It’s called Cosmic Catnip and you can buy it by the bucket. This is the effect it has:

Which leads us to the inevitable effect of super-strength kittieweed:

I was gonna lick my balls, but then I got high…

A Feeble Excuse

I need to be away from the pc today because I hurt ( wasn’t feeling well, fell asleep on the sofa, woke up at 4.30am and can hardly move my neck now) so instead of a test pattern, here are some pictures of our cats.

Hector poised for Teletubby time:

Mine, all mine, mwahaha.

Dinner. Now. I said now, puny human!

And just as a teaser, one very ugly cat from the pictures folder, which is stuffed with them. . I’ll post lots more tomorow.

On the political front, US politics and blogs are in danger of disappearing up their own arses in a flurry of domestic wrongdoing and accusations; the rest of the world has ceased to exist for them, and the UK media too, who are falling all over themselves to suck up to Brown and his coterie.

Expect a Brown cabinet by the end of the day: I see Pitt The Very Very Younger David Milliband has already got Foreign Secretary. Yay, foreign policy by MySpace. What larks.

Peter Hain has got DWP, so expect fake tan to be allowed as a disregarded expense for benefits, and Alan Johnston, who left school with no qualifications, has got Health. The doctors’ll love that. All the Blair babes have upped sticks and left, leaving Brown with a bunch of blokes.

Plus ca change.