Ming the Merciless - February 2005

Thank you ‘Mike from Glasgow’ for asking about my state of scaredness (see comments my last blog). I don’t quite know where this land of Glasgow is Mike and whether or not you get things like big, mammal eating flying machines there but when my matie collbirdyman told me of a snowy owl on the prowl I went straight under the bed.

There are things in life one just does not tackle, especially as my tackle has been removed and the urge to fight diminished.

These evil things fly quite silently and have a wingspan of up to 5 feet. I just don’t do ‘being eaten’ thank you even though my human’s tell me lemmings are their staple diet. With there been a shortage of lemmings on Coll, I’ll stay under the bed.

But the human’s got all excited and collbirdyman has some pics of the actual Coll snowy owl. Hopefully he will post them on the blog site soon as there are a necessary record for all blog reading cats to heed.

Fortunately, the underbed area is very comfortable as one of my human’s has snapped snowy owls before in the far north, places that are forbidden to mention in the bar as every one instantly falls to sleep. When he heard a snowy owl on Coll he too went into overdrive.. I just rolled my eyes and went to sleep too.

So, whilst he and several others ventured out to try and see another (and failed measurably) I dragged his photo out of the archive and below is what all cats of the Hebrides should be looking out for. Do not approach as they can be very dangerous. Just photograph and send to the blog hotline.



Ming from under the bed

I don't like village life. It's just too busy. But something's afoot, our human's are packing again. Looks like we may be on the move. It's complete kitty-litter breaking up one's home, I just hope it's to somewhere quiet. Didn't come to Coll to live in a noisy village anyway, if that was my fetish I could have gone to Blaenau Ffestiniog!
Which reminds me, it's nearly Dydd Dewi Sant and we have daffs out in our garden. Do I feel home sick.. good grief no. Nah, Coll is my home now and I don't want to leave just cos we are soon to be homeless.

Since I can't venture into the wilderness from here I though I'd take cat-cam around our beautiful (even if only loaned) garden.
And here's one of those white/purple things. My great uncle Rhodrei reckons they are better than cat-nip ! But then something probably got lost in translation.

And there are still a few snowdrops around, although most have gone over by now

All in all I'm just enjoying the sun and annoying my humans with the "I wana go out - I wana come in - I wana go out..." game.