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Post #62 Thursday 23 November 2017 – bodega cats

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  Letters from America
These letters are my glamorous aunt’s posts on her adventures and her life and times as a
♦ mature Sydney escort ♦

Thursday 23 November 2017

Social media can teach you things.  For instance I have learned from a Twitter account called @bodegacats that there are such things as bodega cats. For the uninitiated, in parts of the US the corner store is known as a bodega.  These corner stores frequently have resident cats.   Hence bodega cats.

These cats seem to be a pretty common feature, a bit like cellar dogs in Australia.  Some might remember a nice little book published a few years back recording a vineyard tour by each dog resident at the vineyard visited, with suitable portraits of the hounds in their domains.  I checked just now and the book was called Wine Dogs and they even have their own website winedogs.com

So the Twitter account posts only pictures of cats in corner stores, doing cat style things lying around in among the shelves, on the register and so on.  It’s quite endearing.  And now I have my own offering from a little corner store at the Paddington end of Darlinghurst.

Here is the corner store, somewhat run down:

When I crossed the road coming up to the store I glanced up and thought hmmm someone’s dropped their jumper on the steps.

But it wasn’t a jumper at all 🙂

from your glamorous aunt  MG
xx
noticing the small things

Post #60 Monday 6 November 2017 – upate on the black and white cat

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♦ mature Sydney escort ♦

Monday 6 November 2017

Way back in May this year I did a post on the black and white cat of the McElhone stairs, who had been a much beloved local institution.  She was a well looked after street cat and spent most of her days sunning herself on the sandstone outcrop next to the historic Potts Point stairs.  Always up for friendly interactions with passers by over the years, many people became very fond of her.  In May I came to know that she had died, after 17 years living on the McElhone stairs.

There was a subscription held for a memorial and this update is to record the little plaque that was created and put on the sandstone ledge she frequented.  It’s a modest little thing.  Here it is:

Opposite the official memorial, beyond the railing to the stairs, an unofficial sketch of the black and white cat has been painted by who knows whom, and it has a charm all of its own.  It is painted onto the base of the very large ventilation pipe next to the stairs.  Here is a photo through the railing I took at night, so there are a few shadows in the picture which are cast by the support structure around the ventilation pipe:

With fondest memories of spirit animals in the urban world,

your glamorous aunt, MG xx

Post #45 Monday 17 July 2017 – Quiet times

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  Letters from America
These letters are my glamorous aunt’s posts on her adventures and her life and times as a
♦ mature Sydney escort ♦

Monday 17 July 2017

Late in the afternoon I decided it was time to do a kitty pedicure for Mollie Mouse, who has been visiting.

Here is a record of the event, with Mollie held baby style, she stayed quite still, and seemed quite trusting while I performed the operation.

Later on I just spent some time quietly resting on the lounge myself.  And here is a record of that event too 🙂

Reclining, in honour of the feline…

I had actually been a bit sad over the weekend because I had to cancel an important first meeting as a result of circumstances completely beyond my control.  If life was as straightforward as work….

Your glamorous aunt

MG xx
and her loving lilac Burmese friend

Post #34 Monday 29 May 2017 – I have joint custody and Fexo

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♦ mature Sydney escort ♦

Monday 29 May 2017

I have joint custody of a very pretty cat with the softest fur – a lilac Burmese called Mollie Mouse, The Mouse.  I am currently babysitting her while my ex is overseas for a month with his new partner.

I also have Fexo – because it seems to be the best antihistamine for managing visitors’ potential allergy issues.

I also now have vet bills!

When Mollie arrived I found what looked to be an enormous tick on her neck in the ruff, just where she wouldn’t be able to reach it to pull it out.  But she didn’t show any dramatic signs that would mean it was a paralysis tick. So off we went to the vet  who thought it was a tick yes but not a bad tick.  And so she removed it and kept looking for the tick’s head and legs, which you are supposed to get out if you can, and could not find them and announced that she didn’t think it was a tick at all, but some skin tag. She expressed remorse about putting The Mouse through this surgery which may have been unnecessary.  Right.

After further overall examination she showed me one of The Mouse’s molars which was total black and blue and looking very rotten.  So we are booked in for tooth removal under anaesthetic with two vets.

The fact that Mollie is so very round, and it is not just fur, was the subject of lots more comment too, so now I have Mollie on a special low fat diet (which includes prawns).

So I have the custody and care of dear little Mollie for one month out of the whole of the last year and I now have a vet bill of more than $2,000 and the privilege of being The Mouse’s diet dominatrix.  LOL !

Here she is throwing me some shade from her reclining position on the carpet this morning where she was lolling around under my chair.

Another snap to show her roundness.

 

 

 

 

 

And today is the 6th anniversary of Mollie’s great friend Suukyi leaving for cat heaven.  They were such great friends.

Your glamorous aunt  – subdued a little today,
as I must deal with the Tax Office (sigh) and writing this post could well be a way of avoiding that.

xx MG