{"id":16399,"date":"2022-10-12T01:19:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T01:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=16399"},"modified":"2024-03-29T18:09:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T18:09:24","slug":"tuesday-11th-october-2022-the-cat-sat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=16399","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 11th October 2022 &#8211; THE CAT SAT &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; on the mat, as the old saying goes.<\/p>\n<p>But this morning, she didn&#8217;t. As I found out when I went to sit on the chair to take part in my Welsh lesson.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, at 05:55 it&#8217;s quite dark and you can&#8217;t see all that much. And as I&#8217;m half asleep anyway and my eyes aren&#8217;t focusing properly after another miserable night, seeing a black cat on a dark blue chair is not easy.<\/p>\n<p>However, she soon let me know that she was there. Poor Cujo, the Killer Cat.<\/p>\n<p>The Welsh lesson itself was quite awful. I wasn&#8217;t in the mood, I was tired, I was having to juggle computer screens around and at one point my microphone stopped working. I was really glad when the lesson ground to a halt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2210\/22100047.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2210\/22100047.jpg\" alt=\"cujo the killer cat centreville new brunswick Canada Eric Hall photo 11th October 2022\"  class=\"alignleft\" width=\"220\" height=\"150\"\/><\/a>Cujo the Killer Cat had forgiven me for my <em>faux pas<\/em> earlier because during the first part of the lesson she was on my knee. <\/p>\n<p>She cleared off at some point but as soon as the lesson ended she came back again. For an hour or so while I was dozing after the lesson I didn&#8217;t mind but when I wanted to work she just sat on the laptop on my knees and that was that.<\/p>\n<p>No chance whatever of actually doing any work this morning so I relaxed instead.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>Later on, I went for a shower and a clothes-washing session, and having rounded up all of the felines, I hung up my clothes in the wind. Then Strider, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/The-one-and-only-Strawberry-Moose\/146696445365437?ref=ts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">STRAWBERRY MOOSE<\/a> and I headed for Woodstock.<\/p>\n<p>And by the time we got &#8230; errr &#8230; etc. etc.<\/p>\n<p>This sunroof is enormous. It only just fits into the back of Strider. It&#8217;s heavy too and sending it back to Europe is going to be astronomical. Buying it hit the limit on my bank card so that&#8217;s grounded out right now and I had to use my European card for the balance.<\/p>\n<p>It was a good job that I had some cash on me for my purchases at Sobey&#8217;s afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>From there I drove to Florenceville to go to the bank to sort out my card, but I wonder is any of the regular readers of this rubbish would recall which day of the week is the one when the Scotia Bank closes early?<\/p>\n<p>Round to the mill in Centreville to see what was happening there but, falling asleep, I ended up going back home for a coffee and a doze.<\/p>\n<p>There was time before tea to transcribe the dictaphone notes from last night. I had joined some kind of internet chat room but the nickname that I had chosen, I didn&#8217;t really want to advertise so I only published it as a form of coded URL so that only a certain few people would be able to know the URL and know that it was me but that&#8217;s really all that I remember of this at the moment<\/p>\n<p>I should mention somewhere that Hannah and Jake were involved in this but I can&#8217;t remember how or why.<\/p>\n<p>But I remember a bit more about that dream now. We were having a party somewhere in North America. I&#8217;d had a friend on the internet, a girl whom I knew. They wee talking about travelling so I said that if ever they were to find themselves in the UK they can come to Crewe and I&#8217;d be quite happy to put them up, cook a meal, that sort of thing. She said that that wouldn&#8217;t be possible because she and her partner were lesbians. The authorities would look very dimly on the idea of a pair of lesbians travelling with a very young girl and sharing accommodation with her, that kind of thing. They needed to be very careful about it which I thought was ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>Tea was a burger with baked potatoes and the left-over beans from yesterday&#8217;s brunch. I had a long chat with Darren and when Rachel came home we had a good chat too.<\/p>\n<p>But right now I&#8217;m off to bed. It&#8217;s early but I&#8217;m exhausted and I have a long day tomorrow. I need to be on form, and I also need to avoid sitting on any cats. If they want to sit on me, that&#8217;s fine. But not the other way round.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-16399 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='16399' data-nonce='4f76f79927' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-16399 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-16399 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='16399' data-nonce='4f76f79927' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-16399 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-16399 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; on the mat, as the old saying goes. But this morning, she didn&#8217;t. As I found out when I went to sit on the chair to take part in my Welsh lesson. Of course, at 05:55 it&#8217;s quite dark and you can&#8217;t see all that much. And as I&#8217;m half asleep anyway and my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,1404,15552,1535,44,4507,1521,311,4714,1411],"tags":[3260,1235,1624,5507,15553,1302,10622,5543,212,2560,1523,5511,9742,5380,312,2812,462,6140,5274,3569,15554,6834,502,8309,1414],"class_list":["post-16399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-centreville","category-corey-ford","category-darren","category-dream","category-eric-hall-2","category-florenceville","category-rachel","category-sobeys","category-woodstock","tag-baked-beans","tag-baked-potatoes","tag-canada-2","tag-centreville","tag-corey-ford","tag-crash-out","tag-cujo","tag-darren","tag-dream","tag-eric-hall","tag-florenceville-2","tag-hannah","tag-marion","tag-nina-wilson","tag-rachel-2","tag-bank-of-nova-scotia","tag-shower","tag-sobeys","tag-strawberry-moose","tag-strider","tag-sunroof","tag-vegan-burger","tag-washing","tag-welsh","tag-woodstock-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16399"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18156,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399\/revisions\/18156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}