frou-frou » Cats

That darn cat!

frou-frou — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:53:33 +0000

Source: ICHC

I know I post a lot of these cat and yarn pictures, but they give me such a lot of amusement! I hope they make you smile too

Yarn Temptation

frou-frou — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:17:39 +0000

Source: ICHC

Think what you could make with all that yarn, if the cat doesn’t get to it first!!!

Fa la la la la

frou-frou — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:28:48 +0000

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I would like to wish you a very merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Wishing you and yours a healthy, happy and safe time. Stay warm!

And if you must dress the cat up, make sure the cat’s happy about it!!

Fiona xx

Knittin’ Kitten

frou-frou — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:17:42 +0000

I never cease to be amazed at how much love there is for cats in the craft community! But here’s a lesson for us all:

Source: ICHC

The Owl and the Pussycat

frou-frou — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 20:55:05 +0000

Picture from: The Telegraph 11 November 2010

I love owls! I love pussycats! I can really understand why an owl and a pussycat would get married. But more of that in a minute!

The above owl and kitten have become best friends after a litter of abandoned kittens was taken to a bird sanctuary in Hampshire, UK. This kitten has become inseparable from Nigel, a white faced scop owl.

I’ve always loved cats. I grew up with them. However, I didn’t discover owls until around 10 years ago when I was in Cornwall and visited an owl sanctuary. While there I saw some little baby owls (owlets?) which were sitting on a bar right next to the walls of the cage, where I was able to touch them. Now it may not have seemed like the most sensible thing to do, to stick my fingers through the gaps in a cage so that a wild bird could get them, but it was a wonderful experience. You know the way when you rub a cat on its chin and under its ears it rubs against you? Well that’s exactly what these little owls did! And their eyes were so like cat’s eyes. I was enthralled and in love from that moment.

So since that time the idea of an owl and a cat getting married, as they do in the poem ‘The Owl and the Pussycat, seemed completely logical. They are so alike.

And to make this poem even more special, I read it at the wedding of very good friends a couple of years ago. It did raise a few giggles as I said ‘ Oh lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love, What a beautiful Pussy you are… What a beautiful Pussy you are’! But I didn’t care. Sometimes I just have no shame.

Here for your enjoyment, or a a reminder of its loveliness, is the whole poem:

The Owl and the Pussy-cat By Edward Lear

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
‘O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!’

Pussy said to the Owl, ‘You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?’
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-tree grows
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.

‘Dear pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?’ Said the Piggy, ‘I will.’
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.

From Wikisource

Badges and stickers and tea! Oh my!

frou-frou — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:02:00 +0000

Oh my! Oh Comely! I’ve mentioned my new favourite magazine before and be warned, it’s liable to come up many times in the future too. Actually I didn’t have an ‘old’ favourite magazine, I’m not a big magazine buyer or reader but this one really taps into the right places in my head.

Anyway, on their website recently Oh Comely were offering a freebie of some uber-cute (did I really just say uber!) badges by Kayleigh O’Mara in exchange for telling them our favourite cat story.

They must have liked my story because I received these goodies in the post today. Here’s my cat story:

‘A few years ago I was at my boyfriends Mums house in Edinburgh, which was a tenement flat, on the second floor! The cats came and went of their own accord when people came in and out the front door. However, on one occasion one cat decided to take the short route – right out the second floor window. Boyfriends mum squealed in horror and made for the front door. As she was half way down the stairs in a panic, the cat was sauntering up past her with its nose in the air and a look of ‘what’s all the fuss about.

That’s why I love cats!’

Oh how I love Oh Comely! I think their stickers show just one of the reasons why…

Tea cups and tea pots!!!

And can you read the text at the top (sorry couldnt get very clear pics)?

‘Keep your curiosity sacred’

Genius!