Author Archive: billygean
Benny for your thoughts: flowers
I don’t know why I am persisting with the lead walking, when all it does it annoy both of us, but I am. We still haven’t let Benny out properly, mostly because it’s not light for long enough and if he did come back late we wouldn’t be able to see him to let him …
And I know nothing sweeter than / Champagne from last new year’s
I step out of the super-modern car park and make my way down the hill. “Just off to see my psychiatrist,” I had joked on the phone to MindReader. And now I’m back here, at the sleep clinic. I was last here on June 23rd 2011. There is no significance in me remembering the date; …
Benny for your thoughts: what we learnt this weekend
We optimistically bought Benny a scratching post when we first got him, which of course he never used, preferring instead to rip our sofa to bits. He finally figured it out this weekend, with the help of catnip, a purple snake and watching me use the scratching post myself.
Benny for your thoughts: unbelievable mess
Benny is not very good at getting his food from his bowl to his mouth.
Benny for your thoughts: ambush
Benny has been angry this week. I’m not entirely sure why. Something to do with an upset stomach (ONCE MORE I found myself wiping my cat’s bottom lest it drip onto the floor post-poo… grim) and me trying at least once a day to trim his claws as I cannot listen to “struggle struggle struggle… …
Valentine’s day
It is MindReader’s turn to cook. As a nod to the strange dichotomy presented by Valentine’s day, that is, “I hate being told when to celebrate love” and “we will feel like losers if we play Zuma Blitz and talk about the cat”, MindReader and I take it in turns to stay in and cook …
Happy Place
“So I think we will look into prices for a new boiler,” MindReader’s sister says as we sip tea in our cold living room. “God, it’s stressful,” I say, sitting down in the beanbag in the corner of the room. My phone rings. My ringtone is The Mr Men Theme Tune which plays cheerily from …
Ginger timing
It was a little bit of a battle to be allowed Benny. We rent our house from MindReader’s sister and her husband and there were a few negotiations via text to be allowed a cat. Mostly because cats can smell, and make houses smell. And also sometimes piss in places, though, for all Benny’s eccentricities, …
Benny for your thoughts: angry Benny
Sometimes, Benny experiences acute anger at the injustices of the world. Famine… And combat… Benny has experienced in spades. Not to mention RAGE:
I went out in the rain suddenly everything changed
“Train cancelled,” MindReader says to me. “And the next one.” “Aahh,” is all I can manage. I am FREEZING. The UK is cold at the moment. In the minuses, which it almost never is. And, as ever, I am wearing an inappropriate winter outfit. “Let’s go for dinner,” I say, as we walk back across …
