elingregory | Celebration

Happy 4th of July to those of you who celebrate it. I'll be just over here drinking my deteftable tea.

The rest of the post is also a celebration and is going behind a cut because it's going to be picture heavy and not everyone's browser can cope with that - I know mine can't. Two weeks ago today I lost one of my very best friends. I've whined to a few people about it but today I've decided it would be cool to think about his fabulousness instead of being so miserable.

8 weeks old and utterly bemused at Hay Literary Festival

Being very good!

Favourite sleeping position

Second favourite sleeping position on pile of clean warm washing.

Mmm snowball.

God-Emperor and devoted worshipper on beach. I can't remember which got wetter.

Funny how a 4 pound cat can utterly crush a 60 pound dog.

Sizz watching HIS cat eat his dinner. They adored each other and used to take it in turns to chase.

Biiiig smile.

Dawn, New Years Day on top of Pen Y Fal, aka Sugarloaf. Looking a bit grey round the muzzle but still good to go.

Unfortunately we're not a family that takes much in the way of photos so we have no record of Sizz's complete devotion to his stuffed toy duck, or his fascinated horror of the squeaky toy pig we bought him at Christmas [he wouldn't pick it up in his mouth but poked it with his paws instead] or the disdain with which he greeted any suggestion that it might be cool if he could, like actually give something back once he'd retrieved it. Nor do we have any video of his ecstatic jumpings when a visitor arrived or the lazy little tail wag he gave when pleased to see but just too busy sleeping to be demonstrative. But we've got lots of fantastic memories.