A present! For ME? Why thanks.

Oh joy, the bigger of the cats just brought in a live mouse into my office and released it under my desk. This resulted in my bolting, but then seeing the poor stupid thing standing up on it's hind legs trying to fend the cat off. Poor creature. So I locked the BOTC in the living room-yowling his head off- and caught said mouse in a pint glass, he had huge eyes and very long back legs. I dropped him out onto the lawn a few moments ago and he just sat there panting, he looked wet but unharmed so I toed him with my slipper and he took off bouncing through the grass and into the hedges, just as the Marklar came up from the bottom of the garden. Now both of them are out there hunting around after it. The bigger of the cats is disgusted with me.
Stupid nature.

A Friday murder.

Remember how I said the bigger of the cats was being tormented by birds when we moved here, specifically by a large fat woodpigeon. Well I reckon mr wood pigeon was clever enough to get the hell out of dodge.
However, it would appear some other birdies were not so smart. And this is what greeted me in the hall a while ago.
(It's not mister and missus blackbird though, they were out in force yesterday teaching the babies how to extract snails form shells, most amusing to watch)