Not too bad a day.
Lovely weather. Nice walk with Helen. Very weak.
I finished my “Crown”
binge. It’s good to be rid of it. Some of it I found rather tedious. The one
character I couldn’t “buy” was Camilla. Everybody else looked a bit wrong, or
else very, but was acceptable. But Camilla – I’m something of a fan of the
real-life one – didn’t seem right at all. The unknown actress who’s doing the
Princess of Wales is brilliant. I got a bit more knitting done, of the final
stripe of the Evandoon body.
And here’s one for
you: Rachel’s husband Ed is the family expert on identifying actors when one is
assailed by that where-have-I-seen-him-before feeling. Well, today I got one,
and pursued it through from Don’t-I-know-you? To Could-it-be? To Google
confirmation. Cameron Strike himself has a part. I won’t spoil it by telling
you where.
And another
vaccine! We had the husband from the Turkish husband-and-wife team who produced
the first one, on the Andrew Marr show yesterday. He said that his vaccine
produces a sore arm for a few days, and a fever. I didn’t entirely like the
sound of that. Maybe I’ll wait for the Oxford one.
Life
Harry Dunn’s
parents don’t give up easily. The High Court heard a case last week in which it
was asserted that Mrs Sakoolas – she killed Harry by driving on the wrong side
of the road – didn’t have diplomatic immunity and shouldn’t have been allowed
to go back to the United States. We haven’t had the court’s decision yet.
I told you the
other day about how, when I am in the downstairs lavatory, Perdita comes in,
and I turn on the cold tap to a trickle, and she jumps up on the basin and
drinks. This happens daily. First she drinks from the water swirling around the
plug hole; later, directly from the flow. And I have been remembering cats I
knew in my childhood who would sit next to a farmer milking a cow, and every so
often the farmer would direct the flow of milk straight at the cat, who would
catch it neatly. I can only speak for the cats of northern Ohio, where I spent
two summers in the ‘40’s. But I suspect this skill was shared by cats
world-wide and if milking machines ever go out of fashion, I suspect they could
pick it up again.
Yes that cat-skill in the milking parlour was well known in this country - I think you are right in saying it will have been worldwide. After all they are the farmers' friends in their rodent work.
ReplyDeleteI am addicted to using IMDB.com for finding out who "that guy" is and where I have seen him. I haven't watched Cameron Strike, as I don't think it available in the US easily. Or I haven't noticed.
ReplyDeleteOur cats here in Canada could catch the milk as well. When I was a wee one we still had a few cows my father milked by hand. He would squirt the milk across the barn and the cats would get the milk. I was no wheres near as skilled as the cats and regularly got a milk face wash.
ReplyDeleteOne of my cats insists on drinking from the bathroom tap when I get up in the morning. Two of the others want to drink out of a mug. The other one doesn't care about bathroom water. He will get in the dry bathtub and clean/play with his tail.
ReplyDeleteDoes Perdita make horrible faces while drinking from the tap? I live in hope of catching our cat at the tap on camera, to catch that face!
ReplyDeleteLove the cat stories! Yes, you can walk a dog. But you can merely watch a cat and be endlessly entertained. To have both would be a perfect world. Unfortunately, due to traveling, we have neither. Chloe
ReplyDeleteProfessor Van Tam, who has my vote as a flu specialist and a brilliant coiner of persuasive images, has put his Mum on notice for the first vaccine that offers. After all, the flu vaccine gives you a sore arm for a day or two.
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