A Half Faced Whiskery Selfie

Hello, and welcome to our latest Sunday selfie! 

This week's selfie is, maybe unsurprisingly, another bed shot. 

As Mrs H is very busy looking at some editing, (I hasten to add she is doing more looking than doing!) I had wandered into Ol' Ned's room and pestered him to take a Selfie.

After half an hour of getting comfortable (Ned, not me), the pose is supposed to be one of, well, I'll let you decide and comment below. One thing for certain, it seem as though I have lost most of my whiskers on one side. Though the other side looks quite full and majestic. I assure you no whiskers, save Ned's, were hurt in the taking of this selfie!

In other news, the wars around the world seem to be escalating, and the weather and mood here in Upper Much-Mousing is an unhappy reflection of the bad, and stupidity of leaders that there is elsewhere. Thankfully, we know there is a lot of good out there. As Buddhists we dedicate prayers to guide us to help stop this dangerous folly and cycle of destruction and death. 

May your own weeks be filled with happiness and the causes of happiness and be free from the upset and the causes thereof.

For now, I am heading off to see if I can get Mrs H to add some whiskery highlights to restore my inner and outer balance. 

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Till Laters!

ERin & Mrs H.

The Upside and Downside of Life

Hello, and welcome to our latest selfie Sunday selfie! 

This week's selfie is brought to you courtesy of Ol' Ned, who awoke from one of his impromptu naps to see me checking him from above for signs of life.

His short naps are famous in these parts, mainly due to their length which often exceeds his working hours. Mrs H thinks that he mistook our advert for a sleep-in handy-person to mean quite literally he had to sleep whenever and in whatever was to hand. 

Thankfully all was well, and Ol' Ned was just dozing on his sofa under the window. Having got up to make Mrs H a cup of tea he set off on foot to fetch the morning papers from Mrs Singh's World Food Emporium, aka Upper Much-Mousing's corner shop.

After that we are hoping to make the best of the last of this week's sunshine, before more gloom and cloud and rain head in this afternoon. 

Spring is most definitely with us, and the early blooms are doing their best to fight off all the bad news in the world.

May your week bring you health and happiness, and may peace reign supreme in your world as well as ours.


We are joining the Sunday Selfies, hosted by the wonderful Kitties Blue and their mum, Janet Blue, from the Cat on My Head blog in America. Click this sentence to visit Janet Blue's site.

 

Till Laters!

ERin & Mrs H.

Sunday Selfie and a new fun gift....

Hello, and welcome to our latest selfie Sunday! 

I really wish I could report that the weather held less of the wet stuff, but sadly it has remained windy, wet, and decidedly boring.

No new physical books read, but we have been steaming through MC Beaton's Agatha Raisin series. If you are not familiar with the series, MC Beaton, who is sadly no longer with us, was a prolific writer of murder mysteries, and has been dubbed the queen of the village murder mystery series and genre. She was prolific, and had a style that pleased across all her separate character lead series, which included Hamish Macbeth.

Easy going at times, the audio books have a beautifully narrated flow, and nice twisty turny plots that never fail to please, despite their being familiar long running themes and backdrops throughout the 30 plus books in each series.

One surprise this week, was the arrival of a gift from ol' Ned, the gardener. "Something that would raise a smile on any guests that visit the manor house", he said.

Mrs H and I couldn't help but laugh, her more than I to be honest, but I did see the bright side and think this is a lovely gift for cat lovers who will undoubtedly have experienced the situation too.

 

There are quite a few on Amazon, if you do a search for cat bathroom signs, so if it takes your fancy there are plenty of shapes and images to choose from. 

And now a picture selfie of me. I may or may not be upside down, but I definitely am not in the bathroom or loo!

Whatever rooms today finds you in, we wish you all a happy and hopefully dry and warm week.


We are joining the Sunday Selfies, hosted by the wonderful Kitties Blue and their mum, Janet Blue, from the Cat on My Head blog in America. Click this sentence to visit Janet Blue's site.

 

Till Laters!

ERin & Mrs H.

Wet and windy, NOT how I like my cream!

Hello, and welcome to our selfie sunday! 

With mainly wet, wet, wet (not the boy band) performing this week with wind as the backing band, I have been spending my time, you guessed it, examining the weave of this cotton bed spread. 

Not much else to do these days of mid winter, so likely you'll get to see more of such similarly posed shots in the coming weeks.

Hopefully you all will be faring better weather wise, and activity wise?

Let us know what weather is like where you are, and if sunny and warm/hot, where the nearest airport is, MOL

Have a lovely week!

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We are joining the Sunday Selfies, hosted by the wonderful Kitties Blue and their mum, Janet Blue, from the Cat on My Head blog in America. Click this sentence to visit Janet Blue's site.

 

Till Laters!

ERin & Mrs H.

First Sunday Selfie of 2026

Hello, and welcome to our selfie. 

First off we wish you all a very happy and prosperous and good karma filled new year. 

With the festive season now thankfully behind us, and the husks of other peoples spent firework rockets all but gathered up from the Manor House gardens — save one lodged on the roof — Mrs H can rest up for a while. 

I say rest up, only between meal services and raking up the last vestiges of autumn leaves that appear from nowhere and stain the lawns with patches of limp, yucky brown. 

Whilst she does that, I have been making the most of some down time. No book reviews for a while as we are busy elsewhere, hoping that our book artiste comes through sooner rather than later with some new art for book 2 and book 3. More on that as and when.

Anyways, here is me on one of the day beds, soaking up yesterday afternoons (3pm) sunshine. There was a welcome blast of bright, clear but low light from across the fields. That's why I am squinting. In a week that has seen freezing temperatures here of -7c, with snow and heavy frosts, and continues to threaten so into next week, this and other beds and sofas is where you will find me. Mrs H has the kettle on now, in readiness for an audio book listen before breakfast, so I shall leave you hopefully with thoughts of warm weather and happier days.

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We are joining the Sunday Selfies, hosted by the wonderful Kitties Blue and their mum, Janet Blue, from the Cat on My Head blog in America. Click this sentence to visit Janet Blue's site.

 

Till Laters!

ERin & Mrs H.

ERin's Sunday Selfie, and Message from Valentine.

Hello, and welcome to our Sunday selfie post. 

We are joining the Sunday Selfies, hosted by the wonderful Kittes Blue and their mum, Janet Blue.

 

Before we show off a rare selfie of us dreaming of far away shores, I have been asked by my betrothed, Valentine, to share some rather sad news. 

Dearest Myrna Pearl Sterling, Valentine's much loved new pal who recently moved from being a street cat to having a warm and loving home and many square meals and treats a day, has very sadly crossed the Rainbow Bridge. 

Myrna, found much happiness in her twilight years living with Valentine, Esmerelda, Bessie the Bassett, and her new adopted humans, Kerry and David. She settled into Valentines blogging life ever so easily, like she was an old hand, and never seemed phased by Val's antics.

Kerry hopes to be able to do a full tribute and celebration to Myrna's life and times in due course. Till then, please do leave comments on the post linked below.  

https://noirkittymews.com/wishes-for-myrnie/#more-23524

Ann Adamus has very kindly created wonderful downloadable badges in two sizes to celebrate Myrna's life. Please do download a copy and use.

Large image of Myrna

Small image of Myrna

 

 

Which leads me to a post Val has asked me to introduce. Many thanks again to Ann Adamus of Zoolatry for generously creating the graphics. Over to you, Valentine. . . .

Dear Friends ~ I just wanted to send you all a short letter, full of paws of love, to let you know we at Noir Kitty Mews won't be blogging for awhile, and I hope my above note tells you why. We will be very grateful for as many paws together** as you can spare, specially as Mommy can really use those right now.

I am also meowing a special favor to each of you ~ that you please do not post or otherwise share this, our personal family information on Facebook or other social media. It's just something we're not comfortable with right now.

** if perhaps you want to send a personal message, please can you email us at valentine@noirkittymews.com. I know they WILL all be very much appreciated.

Thank you and purrs,  Valentine

Thank you Valentine. I am sure all of us want to wish Kerry, David, you and the rest of your family well during this very stressful time.

Hopefully, with all our thoughts and prayers from across the world and Blogosphere over the coming days and weeks, we can get Kerry back home and on the mend. 

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And now, I offer you my Sunday Selfie!

 

OK, OK, so maybe paws dont really count as an actual selfie, but they are MY paws. See how clean they are too! Mrs H do take note. It was NOT me who walked through the flour on the kitchen table and traipsed it into the lounge and across the sofa, sideboard, your new Persian rug and up the curtains. Clearly, we have ghosts afoot! 😉

Anyways, enough of my Footsie, to see what all the other fine Sunday Selfie Bloggers are up to this week, please follow the links below, mindful of any patches of self raising flour!

Till laters, and my next book review, have an awesome week.

 

ERin & Mrs H