Claire Bate
@clairebate.bsky.social
Cat servant, multiple Fiat owner, music listener and player, excessive baker and cooker, paid to be an engineer. Wife to very understanding husband.
One of our cats has a similar response to:
Picking up bread
Picking up a bread knife to slice bread
Picking up a butter knife
Using the toaster
Taking the lid off the butter dish.
If I need to find her, any of these things works and results in her shouting until she has been given butter.
Picking up bread
Picking up a bread knife to slice bread
Picking up a butter knife
Using the toaster
Taking the lid off the butter dish.
If I need to find her, any of these things works and results in her shouting until she has been given butter.
November 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
One of our cats has a similar response to:
Picking up bread
Picking up a bread knife to slice bread
Picking up a butter knife
Using the toaster
Taking the lid off the butter dish.
If I need to find her, any of these things works and results in her shouting until she has been given butter.
Picking up bread
Picking up a bread knife to slice bread
Picking up a butter knife
Using the toaster
Taking the lid off the butter dish.
If I need to find her, any of these things works and results in her shouting until she has been given butter.
In this cold weather, I'm a bit jealous of all that flood!
November 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
In this cold weather, I'm a bit jealous of all that flood!
Just to balance things out a bit. They do stuff other than sleep, but cats will cat!
November 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Just to balance things out a bit. They do stuff other than sleep, but cats will cat!
Phew - Easy by the Commodores. Acceptable earworm.
November 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Phew - Easy by the Commodores. Acceptable earworm.
Correction: Christmas songs Interspersed with the Bee Gees with Barbara Streisand and some current pop. Hoping that the Bee Gees don't become earworm of the day.
November 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Correction: Christmas songs Interspersed with the Bee Gees with Barbara Streisand and some current pop. Hoping that the Bee Gees don't become earworm of the day.
Exactly! And it's the sort of thing you only find out when you want a cup of tea!
November 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Exactly! And it's the sort of thing you only find out when you want a cup of tea!
Not a band, an instrument, just in case anyone was confused by that. Quite a backing for Florence and the Machine.
November 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Not a band, an instrument, just in case anyone was confused by that. Quite a backing for Florence and the Machine.
I feel I need a badge with that written on it as a preemptive warning to anyone I meet...
October 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I feel I need a badge with that written on it as a preemptive warning to anyone I meet...
There's probably an AI prompt for generating a picture of some celebrities taking part in a show like this on TV, and I'm not sure I'd be able to tell if it was these days. I recognise 2 of them, and a couple more names.
October 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
There's probably an AI prompt for generating a picture of some celebrities taking part in a show like this on TV, and I'm not sure I'd be able to tell if it was these days. I recognise 2 of them, and a couple more names.
Not sure if I was snoring or not though. Sorry about that anyone on the train this morning.
October 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Not sure if I was snoring or not though. Sorry about that anyone on the train this morning.
I ended up having to go to the docs as I'd had a headache that got steadily worse for 4 weeks and then a bad stomach - turned out to be the ibuprofen I'd been taking for the initial headache had then been causing both.
October 14, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I ended up having to go to the docs as I'd had a headache that got steadily worse for 4 weeks and then a bad stomach - turned out to be the ibuprofen I'd been taking for the initial headache had then been causing both.
Having read some of the side effects, some of them seem like a normal day too - muscle pain, tiredness, irritability and sleepiness. The last two are marked to 6 months to 6 year olds, but they I'm sure they apply to me too. 😠 😩 😴
October 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Having read some of the side effects, some of them seem like a normal day too - muscle pain, tiredness, irritability and sleepiness. The last two are marked to 6 months to 6 year olds, but they I'm sure they apply to me too. 😠 😩 😴