Thoughts on ephemera: music, photography, tea & everything else
Posted in Blog on May 10th, 2008
It’s a fact that no matter how small the boxes are which arrive in the post for me, both of our cats will attempt to park themselves inside them when they’re empty (and often as they’re being emptied). Here’s Hamish happily ensconced inside the box in which I received an order from Puerhshop yesterday. [...]
Posted in Blog on May 1st, 2008
Well, I’m not, as a matter of fact, a cat but I have recently been reading a book with that title by the Japanese author, Natsume Sōseki, written at the turn of the Twentieth Century.
Originally published in ten instalments in the literary magazine Hototogisu between 1905 and 1906, I Am a Cat is a [...]
Posted in Blog on Feb 22nd, 2008
The text in the subject of this post is by Italo Calvino, one of my favourite writers.
Why that as the subject? Well, as some of you will know, we have two cats, Bob & Hamish, who’ve lived here since last Summer. These two brothers are by turns acrobatic, majestic, proud, frustrating, adorable, confusing, [...]
