Kate Burton

Bright bedroom with grey carpet and white walls, featuring a large window with a view of neighbouring houses with red-tiled roofs. A calico cat rests on top of a tall white chest of drawers beside an open wardrobe. In the foreground, part of a wooden bed frame and bedding is visible. Plastic storage boxes with clothes are stacked in the lower-left corner.

Dimly lit room with a disassembled wooden bed frame and a light blue mattress propped upright against the wall beneath a small window showing a dark evening sky. A cat is curled up and sleeping on top of the mattress, partially blending in with the subdued lighting and wooden bed slats. A cardboard storage box sits in the lower right corner, and folded bedding or clothing is on the floor in the lower left. A bare lightbulb hangs from the ceiling above.

We’ve unpacked the essentials (mostly), and Ophelia has gotten braver each day. The perches her humans have left her help of course.

It was devastating to find the cattery was booked up too far in advance. It would have been so much less stress for her. 🙁

It’s like some weird version of meeting the pet at a party, except I’m drinking cold coffee from a carton

Almost identical scenes here 😹

We’ve termed anything the blankets covers as the Thunderdome, as she thinks the blanket protects her from thunder. I’m not about to convince her otherwise.

A cat with white and tabby fur peeks out from inside a soft-sided black carrier, partially covered by a chunky mustard-yellow knitted blanket. The cat, wearing a collar with a green tag, gazes intently to the right.

It’s moving day today, and I’m currently keeping a cat from having a nervous breakdown by sitting with her in the bathroom as Dr B and the movers empty the house.

An unimpressed calico cat with a white chest and paws sits on a green plastic container next to a cardboard box, positioned behind a beige woven cat tree with sisal-wrapped posts. The scene is indoors, with a light grey textured sofa in the foreground and brown curtains hanging behind the cat tree. A white door stands open in the background, revealing a hallway lit with warm light.

We’re all fed up with packing at this point.

Hopefully the public outrage will give him pause.

Glad to see that we all agree that Nazis can get fucked.

A news summary graphic from the “Daily Gazette Standard” titled “Daily Catch-up” features two headlines about a former Colchester mayor. Both stories are accompanied by the same image of an elderly man in ceremonial robes and a chain of office, raising a black and yellow flag in a town square with historic buildings in the background. The first headline reads, “Ex-Colchester Mayor says we need an ‘Auschwitz camp minus the ovens’ for migrants.” The second headline states, “Ex-mayor resigns as honorary alderman after ‘Auschwitz camp’ comments.”

A story in two acts.

I was thinking about that! Are they a pain to move/assemble?

We would’ve gone for the cattery, but they laughed when I asked if they had any openings.

Cat people - how did you move with your kitties? With the chance of having to potentially wait hours, just popping her in her travel box seems harsh.

Those are the ones we’re supposed to see around aren’t they?

The cuteness aggression is real!

How it started (first day home from the shelter)

How it’s going (wrapped around her little paw)

Pet Edition

A better swarm on the town than some other weekends tbf

I wonder if the canals have an uptick

Maybe it’s a southern thing?

Definitely notable amounts of some this year!

Something about the weather pattern supposedly. Though if they want to destroy the aphid population in my garden they’re welcome any time.

Poor things. They’re bullying the ants here, to my delight.

Wonder why they prefer the coast!

Are you nearish the coast?

In pictures: 'Crazy' ladybird infestation in coastal Essex has residents worried Dozens of coastal towns and villages across Essex and Suffolk have been swarmed by millions of ladybirds

To Clacton apparently www.clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk/news/2530342...

So, how’s the ladybird plague in other parts of the country? We aren’t at biblical levels like the seaside, but there are certainly way more than usual.

Colchester 😎

No, I’m deeply unimpressed. And they were recommended by the builders!

It really is. I see it a lot working in museums, and it’s surprisingly difficult sometimes to do it.