Most readers of this blog will have met Boris (the ginger one) and Arwen. Possibly even in person at Lawn Road or during one of our summer concerts here in the garden in Highgate. Despite the fact that all of their lives had been spent at Lawn Road, they were both very tolerant of the …
Cats
Autumn in Highgate Lane
I hadn’t actually appreciated, when pulling metres of clinging tendrils out with the over grown ivy earlier in the year, that what I was pulling out was Virginia creeper – which would burst into a brief blaze of crimson glory come the dark days of October – as indeed it has. Fortunately, it is incredibly …
Fox play…..
Pretty, aren’t they? Even prettier when they were all out in the garden. Not their best year as they rushed out too early in our February heat wave and then got rather confused as to what they were doing. But none the less pretty. All dead now – but….all militarily upright so, I thought, would …
Good friends
As I was taking pictures of the garden for the garden page this afternoon, I found Tawny Pipit and Arwen together under the weeping pear tree…. Arwen, however, was obviously intent on having more fun than just hanging out… Now was this just an affectionate lick or was Arwen whispering something in Tawny Pipit’s ear? …
Arwen the gender bender….
Cat lovers will have already logged the arrival of Arwen a few weeks ago – so this is for them. Cat haters – turn away now…. Arwen has come to replace the late lamented Frodo and, although currently only a small fraction of Frodo’s size, is not doing a bad job! For those who know …
The passing of Frodo…….
Very sadly, I am afraid that Frodo did not make it……. For those of you who have been following his fortunes, he went back the to the Veterinary College on Monday to have his mouth cage removed and was doing well. They kept him for 48 hours to monitor his jaw and make sure that …