Mia

Almost ready to sketch Mia's portrait.

Fell out with her earlier. She went outside and disappeared for an hour and a half, then came in, so I picked her up, saying "Where the heck have you been all this time?", then, feeling cold and wet, I realised that her feet and back of her back legs were covered in black mud, which on a white cat looked even blacker! After going upstairs to change my tee-shirt, I decided to wash her feet off, to which she had extremely strong objections. After going back upstairs to change yet ANOTHER tee-shirt, I left her to it. She`s now lovely and clean, and asking to go out again, but she aint going!!

Signing off now. Arty farty hat ready and waiting.

I took on a cat that had been living with an old lady, and was becoming a bit of a danger, twining herself round the woman's legs and so on. The cat had never been outside, and was now five years old... the sky terrified her!

Slowly, slowly she accustomed herself to the great outside, (and my scratches healed) but she was only ever happy there on a running lead -- on the odd occasions when she slipped away she would be found in a nearby garden, terrified and hiding under things!

But my agorophobic Siamese queen did learn that my lap was her natural place to be... and she was a companion for another fifteen years.

feetlebaum

Oh dear, number...I've made a right pig's ear of Mia's portrait. I'm smothered in paint and the portrait is sitting in the bath...I've given it a shower. Seriously! I have to admit that I'm not good enough to paint a white cat. And now I feel awful because I made a promise that I cannot keep. I wonder whether you would be happier with a sketch of Mia...the pose being the one on her back? Please let me know.

Don`t fret over it Soop, and I`ll be happy with whatever you decide to do. The last thing I want is for you to get upset over it, I`m sure that Mia will survive without gazing in her supercilious manner, at her portrait as she passes it! xx

Mr soop has suggested that I use a different medium. This will be a first. As usual, eager to get started.

Do you mean instead of water colours?

number Mr soop and I are to have a partners' meeting re the Mia portrait. Goodness only knows what we'll decide. I'll try anything to keep my promise.

number Have discarded attempt number two. Am about to sketch number three. I won't be beat! I shall succeed!

Soop, you`re an absolute gem!xxx Need a hug emoticon!

I`m beginning to doubt the wisdom of taking on a white cat! I know she`ll wash herself, but nearly every time she goes out for a play, she comes in looking a right little scruff, I don`t know WHAT she gets up to out there!

feetlebaum; we used to have Burmese cats, but I always wanted a Siamese. Not like other cats are they? My whippet is a cross between a cat and a dog [behaviour wise] and a good substitute. I found the people who bred them just bred Siamese and Burmese thinner and thinner, though, and not to my taste.

number sweetie pie, if I'd had a photo of a messy Mia, I would have finished by now. Hate to say, but I'm sketching number four. I cannot fail...I must succeed...woop woop!

number; I had a silver tabby so know what you mean....

number, my Daisy is a white long-hair......slugs, sticky-willies, bits of twig......all have ended up on our bed! And without fail, if it's raining during the night, she will jump up on the bed and stand with dripping fur, on the pillow next to a sleeping DH - never does it to me though !

Marelli we had a white dog who would jump in muddy puddles and always had a tide mark half way up her body!

Glad I`m not the only one with a mucky pet then! At least she can`t do that in the night Marelli, we don`t have a cat flap, and so far, she`s not been out overnight.

Soop, more and xxx

number Have done shopping. Drinking coffee. Gazing at Mia sketch. All fluttery [with excitement] inside. Have high hopes of a magical outcome.

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