Fenouille

@fenouille

You can take the Brit out of the UK but not the tea out of the Brit 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 speaker living in SW France Interested in 🚲 and active transport, politics, podcasts, 🐈🐈‍⬛ and fibre arts

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Fenouille@fenouille· 11d

This old man is feeling hot on #caturday and International cat day.

Wellington, a twenty year old tabby, stretched out on his side asleep on a blue towel draped over a sofa.

Fenouille@fenouille· 25d

What, and I say this advisedly, the fuck was she thinking???

Text from a BBC report on the French wildfires about a Franco-American woman with children, who saw the wildfires from her house, thought, "oh, they look out of control," and nonetheless went to bed with earplugs in and missed the evacuation order. So now they are stuck in a completely evacuated zone and can no longer leave.

Fenouille@fenouille· Jun 27

Still too hot for Welly but the canicule is over tomorrow #caturday #catsofbluesky #chaturday

Old man Welly, a tabby cat, lying in our shower trying to find a cool spot in the heatwave.

Fenouille@fenouille· Jun 14

I PROMISED myself I would NOT go down the crisp aisle when I popped into Carrefour this morning and then they go and pop this just behind the fruit and veg 😭😭😭

A tempting display of a huge number of Brets crisps bags, placed next to the fruit and veg thus nullifying my resolve to avoid the crisp aisle. It includes my favourites Yakitori and Bleu d'Auvergne.

Fenouille@fenouille· Jun 8

This reprobate went for a midnight wander and when I tried to tempt him in with snacks I attracted several other neighbourhood cats, but not this one. Who wandered in 10 minutes later demanding to know where 3rd dinner is.

Wellington, a 20 year old tabby cat who really should know better, eating his 3rd dinner aka midnight snack, before 1st breakfast around 3am.

Fenouille@fenouille· Jun 2

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone #ProofOfCat

Old man Wellington, a tabby cat, fast asleep in his non-furry brother's bed. All curled up and with his tail towards the camera.

Fenouille@fenouille· Jun 1

Good for Daphne. Old man Wellington had to chase out an intruder at 4am the other night. He was also not amused. Boo for Bad Cats.

Tabby cat, old man Wellington, giving significant side eye

Fenouille@fenouille· May 21

This old man is 20 today! Happy Birthday Wellington 🥳 #catsofbluesky

Dignified tabby cat who is 20 years old today is being kissed by me, and he is thinking that he's rather not have a birthday kiss if it's quite alright with me.

Sorry Welly, I didn't get your enthusiastic consent, it will not happen again.

Fenouille@fenouille· May 20

"Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety/phobias started?" The perils of sleepovers at houses with older siblings

Film Poster for "The Towering Inferno" showing a tower block on fire, although seeing this now decades later I am rather more distracted by the face of Steve Mcqueen on it, that I had not noticed while peering through a cracked door at the TV with my friend when we were supposed to be in bed.

Film Poster of "The Swarm" a film that I also saw only a snippet of through a cracked lounge door, with the same friend as the previous film "The Towering Inferno", although on different occasions, which makes me realise Amanda Forster is directly responsible for my two main phobias. And after all the effort my parents went to not letting me watch ITV or Grange Hill.

Fenouille@fenouille· May 9

Help! We have created a monster. Old man Wellington needs hydra care (cat soup) for his renal issues. He had his first dose and we all discovered he LOVES cat soup. Now we have an old man who stands in the kitchen and yowls all day, not just 5am #caturday #catsky #catsofbluesky

Very distinguished tabby cat called Wellington, sitting on my lap looking disgruntled because we have turned off cat crack ie hydra care

Fenouille@fenouille· Mar 19

Oh dear. Welly sends some solidarity, he's being kept in for a couple of days and would like to speak to the manager.

A very handsome tabby cat wearing a plastic cone due to being in animal hospital due to unstable renal values. He would very much like to speak to the manager about this indignity.

Fenouille@fenouille· Mar 15

Bit off topic but I'm in remembrance mode these days on these kinds of days. My Aunt always used to send me Christmas Birthday cards - hasn't found one in years so I get a Xmas card with HB written inside. It's fine but hope always springs eternal when I see it. Look what my son made me this year🥰

Homemade card with "HAPPY CHRISTMAS BIRTHDAY MUMMY!!!" written in rainbow colours with a heart drawn around the Y of Mummy. Made by my favourite youngest son (favourite oldest son follows the "send a heart emoji and we're good" approach as mentioned by Jane)

Fenouille@fenouille· Feb 28

Welly says it's getting late, time for bed

Tabby cat called Welly, short for Wellington so named to annoy his French godfather, looking a bit grumpy, which you would be too quite frankly if you were 19 3/4 and your humans insisted on sleeping at night rather than staying up and feeding you at 2 hourly intervals.

Fenouille@fenouille· Feb 24

Glorious sunset. Ocean was a bit chilly but the sun was hot so soon warmed up again

View from the top of some sand dunes over the Atlantic ocean. The sun is setting, the sky is orange and blue with some high clouds, ocean has some rollers and the beach has some wet patches on it.

Fenouille@fenouille· Feb 22

Old man Welly

Very handsome tabby cat half asleep on someone wearing an olive green jumper. Welly is 19 3/4 and likes starting up all night so it's no wonder he's half asleep, that's tiring business.

Fenouille@fenouille· May 20

This old man is 19 today 🥳 Happy birthday Welly

Tabby cat curled up as tight as can be in a blue duvet

Fenouille@fenouille· Mar 11

Turned a couple of cross stitches into cushions tonight. One for my first cousin once removed and one for me as we both have been recently bereaved. Forget-me-nots from www.etsy.com/shop/OwlAndT..., robin pattern from a cross stitch magazine #crossstitch

Little crossstitch cushion with a wreath of forget-me-nots and a little ladybird in memory of my second cousin

Little crossstitch cushion of a Robin on a green background with the words "Robins appear when loved ones are near"

Fenouille@fenouille· Mar 6

Backstitching is magic 🪡🧵#crossstitch

Cross stitch in a hoop showing some vaguely defined blue flowers and what might be a ladybird.

Same cross stitch in a hoop with back stitch, now you can see that are a wreath of forget-me-not with a little ladybird sitting on a leaf. The difference the backstitching makes to the understandability of the cross stitch is enormous, one could almost liken it to like having alt text on pictures!

Fenouille@fenouille· Jan 1

Oh dear, doesn't bode well for my resolutions BUT I'll take it if it means this year will be sweeter than 2024, which was a big pile of 💩

Screenshot of Merriam-Webster's new year gif, showing the words "SWEET TOOTH" ch, according to MW, is my word of the year

Fenouille@fenouille· Dec 24

Oh no I've iced the cake after 2 glasses of prosecco and the royal icing is too runny and is slowly flowing off the cake 😭

Sad looking Christmas cake with too runny royal icing and coloured hundreds and thousands for decoration

Fenouille@fenouille· Nov 29

Mum's funeral today. It was nice. So many friends. Mum had a coffin painted with daisies. Live life to the full and the love will endure 🌼

Bouquet of flowers. Daisies, roses, and chrysanthemums in mostly white and pinks with some yellow.

Fenouille@fenouille· Nov 25

Toulouse, Place de Capitole. It now has a market several days a week, although there is a car park underneath they have generally restricted car access to the whole area.

Photo of the Place de Capitole in Toulouse showing it full of parked cars.

Photo of Place de Capitole, Toulouse, showing it full of people walking across it as a pedestrian area, with an underground car park entrance on the right.

Fenouille@fenouille· Nov 24

French Brets brand have a bunch of weird flavours, this is by far their best

Fenouille@fenouille· Nov 19

This morning in the garden at Mum's in Rugby. Took a break to catch snowflakes in-between at the admin

A slow mo video of snowflakes falling in a typically English terraced house's back garden. Some of the plants are still green, but there is a light layer of snow on everything.

Fenouille@fenouille· Nov 10

I've been here a little while now but not yet posted my cat so here you go