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Apr. 3rd, 2014 01:08 amI am an abject failure at getting to bed early.
Some of this is Rusketus's fault: he is a dear little thing but full of boundless kitten energy, which means someone has to chase him and wave string toys and throw balls up and down the hallway, and it's certainly not Cookie or Monster. I have no idea how parents do it.
Tonight I was finishing a piece of embroidery I am doing for a friend when he decided to savage some of the goldwork. Happily, it was fixable.
Earlier I found him perched on top of the 3m+ fence that sections off the cat run: he had clearly jumped onto the frame from the top of the hammock steps that lead down from the house window and shimmied the one-metre-plus section of narrow framing timber to the top. From here, he could plummet to his doom on the pavers below, jump fairly easily onto the neighbours' roof, or leap into a mature camellia bush and make a bid for freedom.
I helped to raise one of my nephews. A few days after he learned to walk, I found him nearly 10 feet up a cyclone wire fence in my maternal grandfather's garden. I had to whip up after him and pass him down to my grandfather (that nephew is still referred to as monkeylad). I had hoped never to have that feeling of EEEEEK! again. I suppose kittens are at least better than falling …
When not causing trouble, he is a gentle delight and the girls have decided he's all right. Mostly. Here is a photo of him looking innocent: Sorry, nope, you can't, because LJ have made their photo editor completely unusable. Well done. I'll try again later once it goes back to being remotely functional. Sigh. Hey! Quicker than expected! Apparently I may edit words, or images, but not both in the same edit. Oh well, I can cope!
There is, of course, work. Let us not speak of it.
The rest of my late nightness has been caused by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
icmezzo's voice meme: I have been listening to so many people! So many more to go! It's just marvellous, before this I had not realised that for most people I don't hear a 'voice': now, I do! And so many interesting things those voices are saying! Hie ye hence! Speak up!
Some of this is Rusketus's fault: he is a dear little thing but full of boundless kitten energy, which means someone has to chase him and wave string toys and throw balls up and down the hallway, and it's certainly not Cookie or Monster. I have no idea how parents do it.
Tonight I was finishing a piece of embroidery I am doing for a friend when he decided to savage some of the goldwork. Happily, it was fixable.
Earlier I found him perched on top of the 3m+ fence that sections off the cat run: he had clearly jumped onto the frame from the top of the hammock steps that lead down from the house window and shimmied the one-metre-plus section of narrow framing timber to the top. From here, he could plummet to his doom on the pavers below, jump fairly easily onto the neighbours' roof, or leap into a mature camellia bush and make a bid for freedom.
I helped to raise one of my nephews. A few days after he learned to walk, I found him nearly 10 feet up a cyclone wire fence in my maternal grandfather's garden. I had to whip up after him and pass him down to my grandfather (that nephew is still referred to as monkeylad). I had hoped never to have that feeling of EEEEEK! again. I suppose kittens are at least better than falling …
When not causing trouble, he is a gentle delight and the girls have decided he's all right. Mostly. Here is a photo of him looking innocent: Sorry, nope, you can't, because LJ have made their photo editor completely unusable. Well done. I'll try again later once it goes back to being remotely functional. Sigh. Hey! Quicker than expected! Apparently I may edit words, or images, but not both in the same edit. Oh well, I can cope!
There is, of course, work. Let us not speak of it.
The rest of my late nightness has been caused by
icmezzo's voice meme: I have been listening to so many people! So many more to go! It's just marvellous, before this I had not realised that for most people I don't hear a 'voice': now, I do! And so many interesting things those voices are saying! Hie ye hence! Speak up!
