So, yesterday's idyllic wait for the verdict on our car air con was dire 🤯😱Then, on the way home, she started to shudder 😭 May have to accept that my 22 year old Beastie is on her last legs - but where we'll find the money for a new car, I have no idea! 🤔🥴😭

We're facing our third major heatwave since late May and the EU is considering weakening climate regulations so we can help data centers add to the climate disaster. Fuck this bullshit, just so a handful of TechBros can get rich. www.ft.com/content/2135...

This is definitely Aldo! The merest scrape of a spoon on china, or rustle of anything and he's at your side in an instant!

Nice view while we wait for air con in the car to be sorted

Aldo busy aldoing

Hurrah for rain! Even went outside for a bit to enjoy it once the storm moved off and wasn't directly overhead. The difference in how fresh the air feels was heavenly. Fingers crossed we'll get some of it in the house now 🤣🥵

Warning text saying hail stones likely and to get cars under cover where possible meant a brief and extremely sweaty panic to clear bits in the barn to get the car back in. Her nose just pokes out a bit, so we've taped card over the windscreen, bonnet and lights - doubt it'll hold up but we tried!

Happy #Caturday (and 🤞 last day of #canicule #panicule)

Hot weather tea of champions!

Should be editing. Am actually sneezing (and too hot to think) But there are bills to pay...

it’s time for a sale! for one day only (25th June) you’ll be able to get Awakened on kindle for less than… well, basically anything else you need to buy these days, so go go go summer horror fans! @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social UK: amzn.eu/d/0bvnPgb3 US: a.co/d/0dngAfYo

Why don't we all just assume that donald j tantrum will post something offensive every couple of hours & just ignore the details, don't repost & otherwise ignore him, till 'merica grows a pair & removes him from the white house?

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Rare (these days) Teddy lap visit ❤️

Count Alducula

Got to leave the house... need to go shopping and drop hubby at osteo this morning. Do not want to go 🥵 (especially with no ac in the car 😱)

Cats are weird (and very cute)

Early morning drug (lincolnshire sausages) deal in car park undertaken; sandwich bags, washing/dishwasher pods and a wok purchased (Action); mars and twix ice creams, wine, beer and handbag bought (Noz), and plants brought home to kill in heat (Jardiland). Now to collapse in front of fan!

And we're home, after a hideously early start!! Bebbies seem very pleased to see us and Aldo is even more of a chonk than usual 🤣

Cabaret was fabulous. Brilliant cast. Superbly staged, and accessibility support chap looked after us from the moment we arrived. Been really imoressed with both venues' access teams and approach. A wonderful, but exhausting day out!

Just been to see the Bowie thing at the Lighthouse. Ruddy marvelous! And also excellent accessibility care. Really impressed all round. Now off for something to eat before Cabaret tonight. Am going to be completely broken tomorrow but will all be worth it!

Bebbies having fun this morning

Slightly different view this morning. Brief trip to sort some stuff out and a dear friend's 60th tonight. Missing the bebbies, but needs must!

Immigrants & asylum seekers are not our enemies. They are not responsible for the austerity, privatisation, erosion of civic life, thinning of democracy and concentration of power we suffer. But they're being punished for these things. Punished at the behest of the very people who *are* responsible.

Caught!

Finally seen doc, grabbed some mango and other fruit from Grand Frais and now on way home... at last!

1 (diluted) bottle down. Tastes like floor cleaner smells. 1 bottle to go in an hour or so's time...

Oh god! The prep stuff is even worse than I remembered! And looking at the instructions I'm supposed to take the 2nd bottle of it tomorrow morning... which means I'll want to 💩 all the way to the hospital! May have to adapt as not prepared to deal with that as well as everything else!

Did you know that thousands of energy-hungry AI data centres are coming to Europe? Our electricity bills could go up fast unless Big Tech is forced to run them on 100% new, renewable energy. Join me in signing👇 action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-05...

Sleepy #Chaturday boys

Queen Cleo says #Caturday is for nippin' 🤣

Start of 48 hours of low residue diet. Seems really odd to be following a medically prescribed diet that insists on no fibre and doesn't seem to care how much sugar you consume! Am already missing fruit... 🥝🍏🍉🍎🍇

Just been for a little adventure to get this beauty (following traditional lbc extended text negotions, of course - but no car park collection thankfully) We have fun plans ahead for it.

Odd to go outside and feel fresh cool air, then come inside and feel that it's just too warm! Has been so nice coming inside after watering the garden to a cool sanctuary - to have it switched seems quite unfair when grass and tree pollens outside are still too high to sit out there

Back at hospital for actual anaesthetics rdv. Remembered to say hello to all in salle d'attente. Too hot though for this nonsense!

The boys enjoying the view from their new moustiquaired window!

Any suggestions for French seaside options that don't get too touristy?

Is fascinating watching kittens grow up. Coco and Teddy are perfectly cat proportioned, long legs and quite slender. But Aldo still has a big old belly and tiny legs!!

Teddy checking out the new mossie screen... looking for gaps he can escape through!!

You wanna build a data center? Fine Power it with your own solar/wind Cool it with seawater filtered through your own desalination plant You will be required to fund and build the complete infrastructure needed for the product that makes you billions of dollars and fucks the surrounding communities🖕

Happy #Caturday from the gang. We aren't sure what we'll be doing today, whether to collapse on sofa and do bugger all, or to find a home in the garden for plants bought last week, or put up mossie screen on window, or put up shelves in office...

Someone is missing her dad, as I got full on purry cuddles this morning! (She usually only graces him with snuggles in the morning)

Hubby on way to UK for a catchup with friends, horrible early start to the day! Have been to Grand Frais and am now in hospital waiting room to see anaesthetist prior to my colonoscopy next month. I really do know how to make the most of his absence!!

Anyone need some kittens in a hammock to cheer them up?

Nice morning getting emergency cat food at one of the bigger villages nearby. Also mooched around the plant fair there and got some nice plants. Didn't take pics of either, so will pay cat tax instead!

Happy #caturday from our Queen

Snuggle time (Coco is further up my lap, also asleep!)

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I found this and it may bring a smile!🙂 This is called the "feather-drying dance of the Great blue Heron"

Anyone for half a cow?!