I like being able to put sentences like that into a cartoon strip about cats. It makes me strangely content.
Tag / banishment
Infinite spaghetti loop
Feathers!
Bella has a thing about feathers. I think it’s instinctual, whenever she has a toy with feathers she is compelled to pluck all of the feathers out of it. A feather duster toy will last about two days at the most if it’s left with her, and first thing in the morning, we frequently find the front room looking like a hen run after a fox has got into it.
However, we’ve worked out how to deal with this, by collecting the feathers and making her a new toy out of them, using that self adhesive hospital velcro tape. We can now reassemble the toy after a hard nights plucking, and we’re both happy.
Just following instructions
If you don’t want your journal wrecked, don’t call it ‘Wreck This Journal’. Obviously.
Teabagging
I always enjoy drawing a Jones’ banishment strip. They always follows the same pattern: Jones finds something interesting and plays with it like any normal cat would, and then in the last frame we find her banished from the house, sitting on the front step of the house, giving a perfectly reasonable explanation of why she behaved like she did. I’m on her side, as I am with any annoying five year old kid who, when he asks why he should change his behaviour, gets told ‘because I say so’. (You can tell I don’t have any children, can’t you.)
I drink a lot of tea at work. It’s normally PG Tips, the brand that comes in pyramidal teabags, recommended on the telly by knitted chimps. But every now and then I go through a herbal infusion phase. When I wrote this I was heavily into Pukka Herbs’ Three Mint Tea, a delicious infusion of peppermint, spearmint and fieldmint. And these are the kind of teabags that come with a tab and a string, so you can remove the teabag from your mug of hot water without having to use a spoon. They’re very dangly, and they smell rather like cat mint. How could Jones resist?