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		<title>Humphrey update</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time yesterday I missed my Humphrey update. I gave myself the day off since it was Easter Sunday.
We&#8217;ve been talking about Humphrey&#8217;s behaviour since Portia died and wondering if he&#8217;s older than we think him. Because of him being a stray, we&#8217;ve never been sure of his exact age. But in recent [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For the first time yesterday I missed my Humphrey update. I gave myself the day off since it was Easter Sunday.
We&#8217;ve been talking about Humphrey&#8217;s behaviour since Portia died and wondering if he&#8217;s older than we think him. Because of him being a stray, we&#8217;ve never been sure of his exact age. But in recent weeks we&#8217;ve watched him almost age in some respects.
Maybe he now can spend more time in the house because Portia is dead and that&#8217;s more comfortable for him. Maybe he&#8217;s feeling threatened by the younger cats. We don&#8217;t know.
What we do know is that Toby cat from next door is making efforts to come in &#8211; it&#8217;s apain not being able to leave the back door open. Several days last week he hung around. James who lives next door works till about 5pm and Toby is out for the day.
Having made several attempts one afternoon, Toby then made the mistake of coming when Humphrey had decided to sit on the doormat.
Fur flying all over the place! No signs of ageing then.
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		<title>Humphrey update</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eileen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fidgety cats fidgety cats
Racing round in the garden, nipping legs, rolling over in the sunshine.
It&#8217;s been a glorious week and Humphrey has finally responded to Spring days by leaping around the place.
My sister has been pruning and planting this week and Humphrey&#8217;s had a lovely time again. Usually helping most by sitting on the new [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Fidgety cats fidgety cats
Racing round in the garden, nipping legs, rolling over in the sunshine.
It&#8217;s been a glorious week and Humphrey has finally responded to Spring days by leaping around the place.
My sister has been pruning and planting this week and Humphrey&#8217;s had a lovely time again. Usually helping most by sitting on the new tender shoots she&#8217;s planted.
It&#8217;s a long standing argument about cats in gardens. We have a lovely herb bed outside the kitchen door. Makes a perfect place for Humphrey to settle down in the summer. Once the herbs have grown up, especially the lavender and sage bushes, it&#8217;s almost impossible to see him.
The only evidence is after he&#8217;s left when you see the flattened section!
Still he looks decorative on photos.
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		<title>Humphrey update</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eileen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the best thing about having a cat?
I think it&#8217;s the unpredictability and independence of cats. Often I think I know how Humphrey will behave based on previous actions. And then he does something so unexpected that it makes me laugh out loud.
We were watching a nature programme the other day. Now especially with something [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the best thing about having a cat?
I think it&#8217;s the unpredictability and independence of cats. Often I think I know how Humphrey will behave based on previous actions. And then he does something so unexpected that it makes me laugh out loud.
We were watching a nature programme the other day. Now especially with something like Springwatch, he reacts to the birdsong &#8211; in particular he likes the small birds like blue tits &#8211; possibly because he hears them in the garden.
But for fun I was watching the children&#8217;s programme In the Night Garden last week while I was doing my ironing. Well I&#8217;m a Derek Jacobi groupie. And I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve seen the birds that that they have on the programme, blue and purple and green. Well they don&#8217;t exactly make a proper bird noise but Humphrey walked in and straight to the television and sat in front of it and watched it.
Not distressed like he is with real birds, but quite intent like he wanted to know what was happening &#8211; a couple of times he turned back to me as if to say &#8211; look at that.
Mad I know but it made me laugh and I can accept the illusion that he sees what I do and understands!
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		<title>Humphrey update</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eileen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a glorious morning &#8211; sun shining, birds singing and Humphrey at last out in the garden.
The warmer weather seems to have restored his faith that he&#8217;s an outside cat and this week he&#8217;s been dashing about as usual checking on the progress of little birds and their possible whereabouts.
It&#8217;s still a bit early but [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[What a glorious morning &#8211; sun shining, birds singing and Humphrey at last out in the garden.
The warmer weather seems to have restored his faith that he&#8217;s an outside cat and this week he&#8217;s been dashing about as usual checking on the progress of little birds and their possible whereabouts.
It&#8217;s still a bit early but he&#8217;s showing all the signs of wanting to play &#8211; nicely of course with any small and not so small in the case of pigeons, wildlife that comes his way.
In the Guardian magazine yesterday there was a wonderful photo of a cat intent on staring a small mouse into submission. Not sure if the photo was staged but it certainly made a striking image.
Now we&#8217;re waiting for our garden to turn into a killing field. Usually with feathers all around the place. Difficult to get rid of when they stick to the plants and leaving a worrying question mark as to where the rest of the bird ended up.
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		<title>Humphrey update</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eileen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humphrey&#8217;s crisis
I was having my lunch in the dining room on Wednesday and Humphrey was curled up in his favourite easy chair. Then like he&#8217;d been shot he dashed past me and out of the back door.
For two seconds then he was back in and racing for the living room again.
Then back again into the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Humphrey&#8217;s crisis
I was having my lunch in the dining room on Wednesday and Humphrey was curled up in his favourite easy chair. Then like he&#8217;d been shot he dashed past me and out of the back door.
For two seconds then he was back in and racing for the living room again.
Then back again into the kitchen&#8230; at which point he ended up squeezing down the back of the fridge.
It took me several crunchy biscuits and a lot of coaxing to prise him out of the tiny space and a little longer to work out what had spooked him.
Now you know that cats generally don&#8217;t care for the noise of machines and Humphrey always high tails it when we switch on the vacuum cleaner. So his first dash for freedom was because he thought I&#8217;d started the cleaner up.
His dash back in the house was because he discovered that the noise was worse outside than inside.
It turned out that one of the street/gutter cleaners was working its way down the street and for poor Humphrey there was no escape.
The rest of his afternoon was spent curled equidistant from the back door and the living room, sitting under the dining table.
Poor Humphrey.
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		<title>Humphrey update</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eileen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well this should be called Portia update. Our little black cat disappeared on Wednesday.
Out and about as normal in the morning, she didn&#8217;t come back for lunch. Then not in the evening. Of course we worried and went to look in all her favourite spots in the garden.
Come Thursday morning we went out and searched [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Well this should be called Portia update. Our little black cat disappeared on Wednesday.
Out and about as normal in the morning, she didn&#8217;t come back for lunch. Then not in the evening. Of course we worried and went to look in all her favourite spots in the garden.
Come Thursday morning we went out and searched all round about but no sign of her. We called her but since she was deaf that didn&#8217;t help her.
So it&#8217;s now been 4 days and we have to accept that&#8217;s it. She was elderly, eating but still thin, and not good on her pins. All winter we&#8217;ve wondered how long she had left. We want to think that in the wise ways of cats, she went and found the perfect place to die. Of course we still have that nagging doubt &#8211; what if she got hurt.
Either way we can&#8217;t do any more for her, just be grateful for her company for the last 15 years and the pleasure she gave us.
Feisty, loved men, and beautiful. Oh that we were all like that!
And Humphrey &#8211; well other than not being very keen on outside this week he&#8217;s fine. Does he know she&#8217;s gone? I&#8217;ve no idea. They didn&#8217;t spend too much time together.
Now there&#8217;s nothing to stop him being top cat.
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		<title>Humphrey update &#8211; 100 maddening things about cats</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eileen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a very quiet week on the cat front. Humphrey&#8217;s kept himself out of trouble mostly by staying home. He had a bit of a cold, being kind enough to sneeze at me.
So I thought I&#8217;d quote a couple of things from a book one of my friends bought me for Christmas.
The book is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a very quiet week on the cat front. Humphrey&#8217;s kept himself out of trouble mostly by staying home. He had a bit of a cold, being kind enough to sneeze at me.
So I thought I&#8217;d quote a couple of things from a book one of my friends bought me for Christmas.
The book is called 100 marvelously maddening things about cats
&#8220;If cats are suppoed to retain the instincts of the wild, when did you last see a pride of lions hanging round the kitchen while their owner struggled to open a can of gazelle chunks in gravy?&#8221;
&#8220;Anti-social human behavior invariably has a feline origin; cattiness, sourpuss, etc&#8230;&#8221;
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		<title>Snoring cats</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eileen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I write this Humphrey is curled up under a chair in the living room. Sparked out after a night on the tiles.
We always use that expression don&#8217;t we. I know I&#8217;ve never actually spent any time on roof tiles on my nights out, but I guess for cats we can take it literally. Well [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As I write this Humphrey is curled up under a chair in the living room. Sparked out after a night on the tiles.
We always use that expression don&#8217;t we. I know I&#8217;ve never actually spent any time on roof tiles on my nights out, but I guess for cats we can take it literally. Well for Humphrey definitely.
That&#8217;s because in our garden we have an outbuilding, sadly now detiriorating but once it was a Victorian washhouse. With it&#8217;s own range and sink where apparently the people lived in the house had to take in washing from the big house that&#8217;s still at the back of our garden.
Anyway it&#8217;s a favourite place of Humphrey&#8217;s to go and sleep in the roof space. So even if it&#8217;s a cold night he at least has somewhere to go that&#8217;s out of the wind and weather.
It was so much warmer last night compared to all the nights during the week, when he showed no inclination to stay out at all.
Now he&#8217;s resting from whatevery he got up to&#8230; and snoring. I&#8217;ve neve had a cat which snored as much as him. Amazing.
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		<title>Humphrey update</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 10:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eileen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before my book launch this week I had one of my rare poor sleeping nights. Well you can understand it can&#8217;t you since I was undergoing
a mixture of terror and excitement. But it ended up with me making tea at 4.30 in the am. Not a time I usually know about.
Of course Humphrey loved it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Before my book launch this week I had one of my rare poor sleeping nights. Well you can understand it can&#8217;t you since I was undergoing
a mixture of terror and excitement. But it ended up with me making tea at 4.30 in the am. Not a time I usually know about.
Of course Humphrey loved it because he blagged an extra feed. Then he demanded to go out. Perhaps he thought it was a safe time to be out. Without the intruder in the garden.
What amazed me was that the birds were already alert. Major bird song time. I was so surprised I stood at the back door for a few minutes listening. Wonderful. The peace and quiet, apart from Humphrey&#8217;s miaows, and then the bird song.
He&#8217;s been more active this week, despite the cold so spring must be coming. More evidence with all the shoots in the garden. Maybe not in the economy but let&#8217;s stay positive. I always feel that if it&#8217;s daylight things are easier to deal with than in those dead long dark days of winter.
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The saga of the other black and white cat has continued all week.
Humphrey&#8217;s torn between defending territory and keeping warm. I don&#8217;t think he cares much about protecting Portia to be honest.
It just amazes me that cats don&#8217;t get the message about her. Poor old thing. She sits under a planter and glares at the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The saga of the other black and white cat has continued all week.
Humphrey&#8217;s torn between defending territory and keeping warm. I don&#8217;t think he cares much about protecting Portia to be honest.
It just amazes me that cats don&#8217;t get the message about her. Poor old thing. She sits under a planter and glares at the intruder but being deaf she has to read the body language, not hear what he&#8217;s saying.
It was so cold last week that Humphrey spent a lot of time in the house. One of his favourite places is by the radiator near the door to the hall. But he lies with his bottom stuck out into the room and it&#8217;s a great place to trip people up as they try to open the door.
Then we&#8217;re glared at as we nudge him with our feet when we&#8217;re stepping over him.
He&#8217;d be warmer on the chair especially during the day when the heating is off.
I think he caught a bit of cold because he would be out on the wettest night this last weekand then came in and slept all day. It&#8217;s difficult when he does that because then he wants to be out later in the evening. I know he has places in the garden to shelter but still I don&#8217;t like him out when it&#8217;s below zero.
Hope the weather will improve this week &#8211; at least the days are lengthening now &#8211; and he&#8217;ll go back to his normal routine.
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