cat missing kittens and other pics

Okay, so this post isn't anything particularly exciting, just a bunch of little bits and bobs that we've done / have happened in the day to day meandering of our lives. They're the type of thing that are really arb, but also that'll really impress me if you were to write / say to me "Bummer about your shower door there Al" - (A) - I'd know you were actually interested in what's going on in our lives (chances) or (B) - I'd know you were actually reading the blog.


Ceili Mor

So this is a ceili - a moerse big dance which is kinda like a barn dance without the barn. Really good fun and they tend to organise them for the public whenever there's a festival of some sort on. Cath and I went along and took a couple of movies and a few pics but as movies don't upload so well to blogger, I've decided to just put up the pics - as crap as they are.

Linda pays Cath another visit and brings lil Loughlin along. Cath's getting broody...

And then, as mentioned above, our shower door spontaniously combusted the other day, out of the blue, with neither of us in the house at the time. Now I know combusted is not the right expression, as it didn't actually burst into flames, but I needed to get across the extent of the damage. We have one of those glass swivel doors on our bath which has a shower at one end and it was this door that we found in millions of small pieces when we got home.

It really looked like an act of vandalism as the whole hinge thing looked like it had been pushed closed. But as our laptop and digi camera was sitting in the next room, it was unlikely that someone broke in just to break our shower door and then leave. Oh well. I had lil pieces of glass in my fingertips for about a week after but all good now.

The next thing that went wrong was that our storage heating system died soon after the shower door. At just about the time that it started getting really cold. We were without heat in our lounge for about 2 months. We had four visits from electricians and finally, it was fixed just before Christmas.

Last picture is of one of the stray cats that lives in our complex. Recently, white and black cat here, which one of the residents has named Xerox, well his partner had kittens, which were slowly but surely taken away from her by residents until eventually they had just one kitten left.

Then, the owners of this ground floor flat took the last one, clearly breaking mom and dad's hearts. They walked around looking for their kittens for ages, miaowing left, right and centre.
So if you click on this photo you can see that there's actually a kitten inside the glass here, and 'dad' is looking in longingly. He does this pretty much every morning, normally while lying on the bonnets of the newly parked cars (probably to get the heat from the engine). Ah bless.