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29 Sep, 9 tweets, 2 min read
"Don't make a big thing of it. I'm only still here because it turns out you have a sunbeam." Kitty photographed from the top of the stairs, sitting on th
I do suspect last night was a bit of a turning point. By chance, she happened to be in having dinner when the skies absolutely OPENED and we had about 2hrs of torrential rain.

And for the first time she looked... went "nope", and sat warily on various chairs for a while.
You could see her looking at the rain, then at us, and going:

"okay, huh. So it stays TOTALLY dry and warm in here when it rains. And the foolish or devious meat puppets who deliver food on demand may well just be foolish, not devious. As they aren't trying to murder me. Huh."
What I'm interested to see is if she starts coming upstairs and discovers duvets.

Because that shit is going to blow. Her. Mind.
We've still got precisely zero chance of touching her btw. That is an absolute dealbreaker on her part.

Which is totally understandable, but I feel a bit sad for her.

It's why I strongly suspect she was the kitten of a stray and grew up in the wild.
That would go a long way to explaining why there's a touch of the domestic kitty behaviour about her, but why she's SO wary. And why every positive aspect of maybe sharing a human house has been like a mini, mindblowing revelation to her.

Regular food!

Comfy Chairs!

Dreamies!
It's been heartbreaking seeing her put a paw into the cardboard box with a comfy hoody in it, sit there tense for a little while and kneed it, maybe breadloaf for a bit while her eyes drift shut...

...then wake, her instincts kicking in and run out in a I'VE STAYED TOO LONG way.
Last night she had a proper sparko snooze in the box for an hour. First time she's done that since about week two of her turning up in the garden.

Then it was a pure, starving, exhaustion. Bolted the moment she woke.

Last night: lazily stretched, looked at me, then walked out.
Gonna move the oil radiator over next to it today and turn it on. We'd set up another little box the same way further in the room but that's too much for her.

Hopefully that reinforces the warm safe place thing. Because I can't leave the back door open forever.

Winter is coming

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30 Sep
This is another solid reminder. If you've never seen Rod Hull and Emu on the Tonight Show with Richard Pryor and Johnny Carson you're missing out.

You need the FULL INTERVIEW though. Not just the Pryor moment. It's here:

Did an awful lot of research onto the background of this appearance for the article i never wrote on Rod Hull/Emu and the fridge-throw

Something to note: this was Pryor's first TV interview since his near-death accident. Everyone around him was walking on metaphorical eggshells.
Pryor insisted he was fine (although he was heavily scared under the layers of makeup), but was still struggling to get himself back into a normal place (or as normal as it ever got for him).

Enter Emu, stage right.
Read 7 tweets
29 Sep
ELIZABETH: Big Liz calling Admiral. Big Liz to Admiral. Squawk.
ANNE: Admiral Squawking.
ELIZABETH: Pigs on the 25 and a bear in the air. No knowledge.
ANNE: Roger Roger. Going high.
ELIZABETH: Stick Mimms rondey.
ANNE: Rog. Two bars out.
ELIZABETH: Clear roads
ANNE: Clear roads
<Elsewhere on the M25>

HAMMOND: I can't fucking believe you talked me into this.
GRAYLING: It's fun! And I needed a driver's mate
HAMMOND: It's not fun Chris. I'm only doing this because it's the only way I'm getting to a Calais beermart
GRAYLING: Want to try the CB?
HAMMOND: No
GRAYLING: You meet all sorts on the road you know.
HAMMOND: Oh I'm sure.
GRAYLING: All sorts.
HAMMOND:
GRAYLING:
HAMMOND:
GRAYLING: I one saw Matt Hancock in a layby. He was-
HAMMOND <interrupting>: DO NOT fucking finish that sentence Chris, I swear to god.
Read 15 tweets
28 Sep
One of the interesting parts of doing primary source research is always finding That One Document (TM) that every book on a subject has used as a source for a thing.

And seeing the different ways they've all tried to pretend there was more detailed info in it than there is. 😆
It's always like:

"Of course [Interesting Thing happened] which I would TOTALLY know more about and could go into more detail about if I had time. Anyhoo moving on."

Then you actually read the source and it's all... nah. That's all you were able to find out to. You big tease 😆
FULL DISCLOSURE: I'm totally guilty of doing this in stuff I write too on occasion.
Read 4 tweets
28 Sep
I'd kinda forgotten that everyone else wasn't aware SouthEastern was going OLR. It's not actually as big a surprise as it seems (or as the renationalistas will claim).

DfT incompetence combining with bad franchise management

We'll pull together a quick LR piece on the situation
Short version is that the franchisee fucked up a LOT early on (Which I'm sure everyone remembers) and then never really managed to dig themselves out of the various management and structural problems they created in that period.
This was made worse by the DfT sticking their heads in the sand about the whole thing while also fucking up a lot of the calculations on potential profitability that they were telling franchisees were the best way to work out Benefit/Cost (BCR) on proposals.
Read 30 tweets
22 Sep
Shit's getting complex. Not my cat looking at also ...
Well that was going alright. He had a bit of a snooze. She had a bit of a snooze.

But then she tried to move a bit closer to snuggle and got a paw (but no claws) to the head as a reminder about consent.
On a serious note I think this is the first time she's not looked utterly panicked at the fact she'd accidentally placed me between herself and the open door.

Granted that was probably because she was just happy to be so close to her crush, but still. #pawsonsCreek
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