A byootaful Life

You know you’re tired when you spend literally half an hour looking for the remote control – under cushions, behind the cofa, upstairs, downstairs, in the kitchen … and you eventually find it in the wheelie bin outside. Which begs the question – what the heck was it doing in the wheelie bin?! It seems [...]

Daisy the Curly Cat recently spoke about her favourite scratching post, called the Purrfect Post and she showed us how she’s had it for three years, uses it every day and it still looks good as new! Then our bengal friend Vladimir told us all about his scratching post – which is a real fence [...]

If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you’ll probably know that I was a chronic nail biter. Ever since I’ve had teeth, I’ve been biting my fingernails until they bled. They were so disgustingly short that I would hide my fingers from view, ashamed. After many years of biting, I picked up a [...]

This morning I turned the television on to see a segment on Better Homes and Gardens in which Dr Harry, an Australian vet, was doing a house-call to a woman with an overweight dog. The dog, a labrador, had severe arthritis and was in a lot of pain. Dr Harry worked out that the dog [...]

Blue Lotus has been writing about hanami (cherry blossom viewing) and it reminded me of something special and completely unexpected that had happened during our holiday to Japan. You see, cherry blossom trees are really beautiful and delicate, and while I really wanted to see some, I didn’t hold out much hope since we weren’t [...]