The Missing Jam
My jam and marmalade goes missing most Mondays.
The cleaners always put it in the fridge.
Does anybody else keep their jam and marmalade there?
Putting The Grim Into Grimaldi
That is part of the comment in The Times about the new biopic about Grace Kelly.
With a plot that is risible and a dialogue lost in translation, poor Nicole Kidman puts the grim into Grimaldi
That is one film, I’ll be missing.
Cats For Protection
The BBC is showing a video of a cat saving a young boy from a dog. It’s here on the Daily Mail.
But cats are strange animals and often behave in ways to get what they want.
Years ago, I often used to walk round the stables by the house to check the horses. One night, I shone a torch into the stable and saw that the horse was sitting curled up by the back wall. But the torch picked out two eyes just under his shoulder and I could see one of our ginger cats snuggled in the warmth. It wasn’t the only time I saw this and one day mentioned it to an old horse-coper, who explained it like this.
Horses don’t like mice and rats scrambling through the straw, as being flight animals small noises may make them want to flee and of course they can’t. So the horse had encouraged the cat in, to protect him from the savage rodents. He said that over the years, he’d seen several strong friendships between horses or ponies and cats.
The Anonymous Widower 