May 27th 2008
Written by Geoff Forster
Tuesday May 27th 2008
We're up early.
Jane's off to work in Gibraltar after a long weekend off. I continue with the websites and catch up on the weekend's blog. Lots of photographs to process. I'm losing count now that we have two cameras on the go, but we've taken around 50,000 photographs in four years. Only a small percentage 10-15% make it onto the blog or our other pages.
We haven't mentioned the kittens for a while. Tash has lost two more from natural causes. The two smallest were found dead on consecutive days. She gave birth to six and now has two plus one found in the street, too young to survive, which she's adopted. All the kittens have eye infections which were trying to treat. It's highly infectious and difficult to stop spreading. We're giving their faces salt water washes and cleaning the bedding at regular intervals.
This is the 'adopted' kitten that mysteriously turned up outside our house one day. It was too young to walk far, we'll probably never know where it originally came from. It's really beautifully marked. 
This is Tash's black/grey kitten, they're a couple of weeks behind the adopted one. It doesn't usually look this sad, it's just been washed and cleaned up.
Jane gets home and she's full of cold. She's off tomorrow as she's working Saturday. Hopefully she'll feel better very soon.
We've lived isolated in a small village and we've only had a few colds in four years. Working with the public from all over the world means she's going to pick up more bugs ...
I cooked mince, onions and mash in thick gravy. Then I squeezed some fresh oranges and added honey for my 'infectious' little wifey.
We watched 'The Oxford Murders'. Directed by Álex de la Iglesia. With Elijah Wood, John Hurt and Leonor Watling. Adapted from an award-winning novel of the same name by the Argentine mathematician and writer Guillermo Martínez.
After ten minutes I thought it was going to be brilliant. It was good but turned out to be a 'Da Vinci Code' like chase solving mathematical puzzles.
Photographs of Tash's other kitten tommorrow - The 'Bat Cat'