Wallpapering

I don't understand the problem with wallpapering. It's easy. Just follow these few simple steps:
1. Cut enough lengths of paper to complete the first wall, allowing 100mm for trimming. Push a roll of paper against the corner of the wall and mark about 25mm in from the end. Hold the plumb line at ceiling height so that it passes through the pencil mark and make several more marks along the line, joining them up with the batten.
2. Phone a decorator

Decorating

We are exhausted.
We have had to boss around plumbers, decorators, gardeners, cleaners, wallpaperers and lots of other -ors and -ers.
So we are having a collective catnap but can't find Treacle.
We will have a look later because he is probably stuck behind the wallpaper.
The plumber is coming again tomorrow. Can't wait - all they want is tea and biscuits and our paws are not meant for carrying trays.
Such is the life of a feline when you have humans to deal with.

Grania

This is TaTa's friend Grania (fair of hair) with her hairdresser Roberta. Grania is a Gaelic name meaning Love or Grace. The name has inspired books (Grania;She-King of the Irish Seas by Morgan Llywelwyn) and Diarmuid and Grania by William Butler Yeats (TaTa's favorite poet) and George Moore with music by Elgar. There is an historical figure named Grania Uaile which is worth googling.

Friends

Stacy cutting her mum's hair on modelling day at SuperCuts
Suzie and TaTa on the Hathor Wherry at Barton Turf
Suzie being a grunt on the Hathor Wherry
Mike, Maxine and Treacle

We resign...sort of

First of all we decided that it only fair we form a coalition bloggership as the BTU (Blogger Trade Union) said it was discriminatory and we used an unfair voting system.
Then after experiencing the ravages of blogging we also decided that it is not for us.
Collectively we do not have Tizit's imagination, creativity, vocabulary, intelligence and breeding to write a blog.
So instead we have decided that Muddle would be our photographer and we will sometimes make comments but nothing as clever or philosophical as Tizit.
Siamese are the wisest of cats and we miss her charm, her grace and her enthusiasm.
We are moggies not moguls.
As you can see technology and letter opening are not our greatest skills.

Messing about on the river

Well actually it is the Norfolk Broads.
Here is TaTa with Susi who helps crew the wherry Hathor. There are only eight wherries remaining and they are remarkable and intriguin vessels.

A wherry is type of boat traditionally used for carrying cargo or passengers on rivers and canals in England, and is particularly associated with the River Thames. Passenger wherries evovled into the Thames skiff. Wherries were clinker built with long overhanging bows so patrons could step ashore dryshod before landing stages were built along the river. It is the long angled bow that distinguishes the wherry and skiff from the gig and the cutter which have steeper bows following the rise of the Royal Navy and the building of landing stages. In the late 18th century the name was given to the Norfolk Wherry with large sails which was developed to replace an earlier cargo boat the Norfolk Keel.

As wherries are completely wind and sail dependent moving a wherry from its mooring is labour-intensive and involves long punts to push the boat into a wind.

The wherry was full at time of sailing so instead TaTa and KeKe went on a solar powered boat developed in Germany and the only one of its kind in the UK. It has 14 solar panels which charge the batteries so the ride is smooth and quiet.

The new bloggers

The vote was 40% Muddle 20% Floozie and 40% Chevvie. So Muddle and Chevvie are the new blog writers. They will start writing in June.