Don’t adjust your set: I’ve changed my profile pic. It was making me too warm seeing a photo of me wearing a woolly jumper 🥵

Finally a nice big storm overnight. I’ve flung every downstairs door and window open now I’m up and about, hopefully will banish some of the heat from yesterday. Bailey cat is still alive and accepting scritches.

Just heard some yowling in my garden, followed by a scuffle and the sound of a bin falling over. Heat must be getting to the cats too 🙃

Here is Bailey cat receiving chin scritches. He really leans into them. Sharing this in defiance of my Magical Thinking post from earlier, with my brain saying that if I share a photo of him something awful will happen to him.

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Risked a coffee this morning. Horribly painful stomach this afternoon. Yay! I'm stupid!

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Ah, that's nice :)

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Art Nouveau is when stuff looks like it was made by Elves. Art Deco is when stuff looks like it was made by Dwarves.

I just read this: it me. #GAD

Today's date (as I type it on filenames) is 20260626 which, although not palindromic, is quite pleasing.

Please enjoy this photo that my bro took of a coot, and its absolutely GIANT feet.

This will make my tummy hurt but it will be so yummy.

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Me listening to R4 just now: “I’m sorry, legalise *haggis*?”

Today’s mild OCD worry after feeding the cat is that a pigeon has got into (and is trashing) the house. I was watering the garden and Bailey started meowing loudly, so I went in and he was looking at the open window. Some birds flapped off outside, and I closed the window.

Lovely boss says that Purf has immediately jumped to the top of her favourites list. I think I agree; he’s a little darling.

Another member of the Little Guys Swimming Club

I have just learnt several things from this post 🤩

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Bailey was downstairs and waiting for his breakfast this morn, so that’s good. I’m not sure how much he’s drinking, but he has wet food, and plenty of water available, so hopefully he’s having some when he wants. Maybe he’s drinking out of the watering can outside 🙄🫠

If you guys have parents who visit your place, do you do the customary lap around the garden with them shortly after they arrive, so they get an update on what’s growing? My mum always did it with Grandma when I was little, and now I do it with Mum 🥰 Cute.

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I mean, I'm no meteorologist, but I believe the sun to currently be about seven miles away.

It is hooooooot now, but did anyone else get the lovely gentle rain that we did last night? Ahhhh, it was good. More of that please.

Went round this morning to give Bailey cat his breakkie, and he ate some of it straight away, which was encouraging. I guess, much like me, he didn't like the thought of eating food that had come out of the can 12 hours ago, in weather like this. Anyhoo, hopefully he'll eat all of it this morn :)

Did the thing where I ordered a product via an Insta ad, and it's coming from the USA, and now I have Fountains Of Wayne in my head cos it's coming from Hackensack, NJ 🥰 🎵"And I will wait for youuuu, as long as I need tooooo..."🎶

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Stress stress stress stress* *It's hot and I'm worried the cat isn't getting his meds if he's not eating his food

Bluuurrrghhh #TheNews

Here is a screen shot of the check list I completed on today’s cat feeding, and I need to put it somewhere so you can all remind me I DID close the window before I left today.

A jumbo jet just flew right through these clouds and I bet it looked majestic as fuck from up there.

Mum got a really nice dress from Sea Salt for the family wedding later this year. She also got a matching necklace on a return trip to the shop, whereupon we realised I had a reward account there with £6 something in points. So I gave Mum the points because she’d been making noises about giving me

I did the first day of cat feeding and plant watering and gave the cat lots of chin scritches and everything is okay 🤩

The garden is looking lovely. Flung the back doors open to let the night heat out before the day heat begins 😅 Also I’ve just learnt that when bumblebees buzz about inside large poppies, they’re using the vibrations to loosen the pollen so they can collect it more easily - whaaaaaa that’s awesome.

I have found, read, and saved the instructions for the 5-bowl pet feeder that I'll have to use in a week's time, so hopefully I can stop worrying and just enjoy seeing a cat and feeding it and watering its humans' plants.

Oh look at that, so it does.

Gosh I love Wotsits.

Getting ready for work and I need my lunch out of the fridge. Just found myself whispering “Gotta get the yoghurt” in the style of Tame Impala’s ‘Be Above It’.

Anyway, in other news, I’ve just taken the back inner tube off my old bike to look for the puncture but despite dunking it in a bowl of water there didn’t appear to be one. And now it’s pumping up okay and staying inflated? Cool, cool. I’m going to try cycling it to work tomorrow as a test.

Just saw my neighbour who hasn’t spoken to me since the roofing debacle, outside struggling with her car bonnet so I asked if she was ok - she was fairly polite and chatted briefly about what was going on, but then ended with quite a pointed “see you later”, which I took as my queue to get lost 😅

The Laura Geller foundation I ordered earlier is ready to ship. Friends, with this makeup, I am embracing having the skin of a person in her mid 40s who still would like to cover her dark circles please. Fingers crossed for this stuff. 🤞

Today my lovely boss and I couldn’t find many bothereds again. She wanted to go home and do her garden, and I wanted to go and play out on my bike. We got ice creams later tho, so that was okay.

From Saturday, I’m feeding my friend’s cat and watering their plants. I’m fine with the plants, but the feeding involves timed food bowls, and halfway through the holiday I’m gonna need to set the 5-bowl timer and obviously I’m terrified. Peaceful prayers/thoughts/vibes very much welcomed pls 😱🙏😌

Good morning from my happy bumbles 🥰🌸🐝

Will I sleep tonight? Who knows - will the pub patrons go home or stand about being footbally? Again, who knows.

Just been informed the football is on ITV - (thanks @bradstamper.bsky.social !) but the game looks as boring at this point as every other England men’s game 😅

I don’t have Sky, so I assume something good just happened judging by the noise that just came from the pub.

New Emma Bridgwater with Nana’s Royal Albert.