08 Thursday Aug 2024
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It’s International Cat Day! 😻 My Spanish cats over the years, from 1992 to present day… Luna, Morcilla and Loki as kittens on top, below are the beautiful Lua, Azar and Sunny. Now l just have Morcilla (who owns my heart) and Luna (total weirdo but l love her anyhow). But each of them were – and are – such lovely blessings and I can’t imagine these past 32 years without them. All totally different personalities who added so much to my life, and who helped me learn about myself too.
22 Monday Jul 2024
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So twice in one week my darling Morcilla horked up massive hairballs (and their accompanying ick) all over the bed while I was out requiring emergency sheet washing. This has led to two new practices at Casa Azahar: daily malt & wet combing and closing my bedroom door when I’m not at home. AND WELL. The hardship, the indignity… you can literally see the sulk here. Her back to me (but not ears) and clearly punishing me by choosing to lie on cold hard paper (not the various soft options all around the living room). That’ll show me. Malt session below…
17 Wednesday Jul 2024
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I’m on a roll here. After checking how often I should replace pillows (FYI turned out to be every 1-2 years and I was way behind) I decided to check towels and – eep. Same. Well okay, not as bad as the pillow situation as it turns out I last bought new towels in 2021 and google says it should be between 2-5 years so I’m still in the running. You see, there is a reason I keep this fascinating blog going! How else could I check back on this stuff?
Anyhow, found these lovely towels at 50% off at El Corte Inglés and they are now freshly washed, sun dried, plump and soft and hanging in my bathroom as we speak. Goodbye old loofah towels! How’s your summer going, but the way?
11 Thursday Jul 2024
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The other day I looked up how often pillows should be replaced and the answer was EVERY 1-2 YEARS. Oops. So off I went to El Corte Inglés and found these on sale. Seems to be getting harder to find washable pillows and I really don’t like those squishy memory foam ones. Anyhow, how often do you replace your pillows? I remember mentioning washing mine on Twitter once (because I’m interesting that way 😉) and omg I couldn’t believe the number of people who never wash their pillows. Looking forward to enjoying these guys on Sunday (aka clean sun-dried sheet day).
07 Friday Jun 2024
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Well, thirteenish. When I first took her in (Sept 2011) I thought she was only about 6 weeks old because she was so tiny, but the vet said she was more like 3-4 months, just small from being malnourished and living in the streets. So I decided on June 7th (7 is my go-to cat birthday date) and here is a little Luna retrospective to celebrate her.
Happy Birthday lovely Luna 
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