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Always look on the cat side of life…

Published by The Dreamstress

My computer’s hard drive failed at the beginning of the weekend, and I’m grumpy. I’m grumpy that all computer problems seem to happen just after the repair shops shut for the weekend. And I’m grumpy with myself for being a total idiot*, and not doing a backup as soon as I got back from the US, so I may have lost my trip photos (sniff).  And I’m grumpy that I’m having to use my old laptop, and it’s slow, and won’t run half my programmes, and a lot of pages on the internet.  There has been a lot of me shouting ‘GAH!’ at the computer and stomping off to clean something while it loads over the weekend. On the bright side**, I’ve re-discovered all of the old photos of Felicity that are on my old computer (yes, I have them on multiple backup sources, safeguarded against the inevitable moment when this computer dies, but I don’t dig in the backups that often). And Felicity is adorable.  She is eminently un-grump inducing. So here is a …

Felicity lends a paw

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All last week I was frantically sewing in order to finish two new dresses and four new hats for the Katherine Mansfield Garden Party (because sometimes  I’m just no good at all at being sensible and restrained!). Felicity, lovely helpful sewing cat that she is, seemed to sense the haste, and did her best to lend a paw.  She generally likes to hang out with me while I sew, but I’ve never seen her put such a concerted effort into being there for the entire process. Her main concern seemed to be that the fabric would run away and hide if she didn’t sit on at all times, so she spent most of the week curled up on whatever I was working on, firmly holding it in place.  Very helpful that! First she sat on the linen: Then she sat on the lace: Then on the  rayon slip fabric: And then on the other linen: Before returning to the partly sewn white linen, to make sure it didn’t attempt a mid-construction escape. Even with the …