Photos of our pets

[Whistle_Pig]

[whswhs]

He’s almost a twin of our third cat, Taiki, except that he doesn’t seem to have white spots:

[yashima]

Looks like s/he just won a game of Oath and is ready to exile everyone…

[Brattyjedi]

Gwen likes the spring flowers. Or I do and she’s willing to indulge me by sitting in front of them briefly for photos on walks.

[KIR2]

Percy’s favourite game is being a shark

[BigJackBrass]

That’s a spectacular tongue on show there.

[InkyBloc]

Pomegranate demonstrates a mood I think we can all relate to sometimes.

[Whistle_Pig]

We don’t need no stinkin’ rules:

[RogerBW]

The rules are cat. Cat shall be the whole of the rules.

[Whistle_Pig]

[pillbox]

Don’t be alarmed. It’s normal for cats to be drawn to 1862; it’s a game that embodies the “do it my way or I’ll ruin you” attitude that drove the railway mania in 17th century East Anglia. It’s very much aligned with cat-like mentalities.

[yashima]

Or maybe the hex fields looked too much like Calico tiles…

[Chewy77]

@pillbox

it’s a game that embodies the “do it my way or I’ll ruin you” attitude that drove the railway mania in 17th century East Anglia.

For what I have seen of East Anglia, flat as a pan, shouldn’t surprise me… The lack of challenges drives to the darkest passions…

[Agemegos]

There once was a girl from East Anglia
Whose loins were a tangle of ganglia.
Her mind was a webbing
Of Freud and Kraft-Ebbing
And all sorts of other new-fanglia.

[RogerBW]

Good news: no hills. Bad news: swamp is non-load-bearing. Also malaria (“fen ague”).

[Agemegos]

I once drove a young lady from the East End of London around the sights of the lower Macleay (the Macleay being the area where I live) only for her to describe it as “like a big subtropical Norfolk”, which I don’t think she meant to be flattering.

I tried to urge the issue of non-load-bearing swamp on the engineers who routed the new Pacific Motorway to the east of here, but my words fell on deaf ears.

[Chewy77]

In the words of emperor Claudius “Britannia has lots of potential, once drained”

[Agemegos]

@pillbox

the railway mania in 17th century East Anglia

Now hang on a moment! Railway mania in the seventeenth century!?

[Phil]

I now have visions of an alarmed engineer shouting “What are you doing?! You can’t drain that – that’s a load-bearing swamp!”

[Agemegos]

Heh! You ought to look into why Bangkok is sinking, and why the Indonesians are building a new capital city to replace Jakata.