Happily Ever After
Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running
Earlier posts can be found on Adventures of a Lone Bass Player, where this blog began life. Recent entries can be found here.
Hard At Work (Mostly)
by Russell Turner - 20:45 on 15 November 2016
Cats, we’re told, are self-sufficient and independent, but when Matchgirl’s away and I’m busy in the office/spare room, hard at work on the next edition of Chatterbox, it’s not long before one, two or even all three feline visitors join me to lounge on the couch, attempt to snooze on my lap or lumber across the Mac’s keyboard on the way to the window where they’ll lurk behind the monitor and keep an eye on the garden before growing bored and rampaging across the desk again. Willow is usually the main culprit.
Sometimes I’ll be lucky and after an hour or two’s uninterrupted work I’ll turn around and find The Pride in jumbled harmony on the couch, food temporarily forgotten. Sometimes I’ll be pushing cats off the desk every five minutes. Predictable they’re not.
Fortunately, work on the next award-winning edition is well advanced and brief fears that there wouldn’t be enough content to fill another forty-eight pages have been replaced by concern about finding enough space to get everything in. As usual, half the contributions have arrived two weeks after the deadline.
Despite that, there’s been leisure time too so I’ve taken advantage of the generous recent reader offer made by Radio Times of a free one-month subscription to the wonderful world of Netflix. I’ve lived happily without it up to now, and will do so again when the month ends, but I was keen to see the much-lauded US version of House of Cards.
Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart – a proper villain.
My verdict? Good, but Ian Richardson and the original is much better. I just hope I’ve not used all our broadband allowance finding out.
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