Kittens are “one”

Well, more or less. The vet estimated they were born in September, so we’ve decided to celebrate their birthday each year on some random, convenient September day. Like today.

So we sang “Happy Birthday” to them (which they hated). Then we gave them a new scratching board, then we played “monkey in the middle” with four new jingly balls. Then, the laser pointer!!! They’d never before seen such a marvel! We wore them out. Now Ajani is relaxing with our DVR recording of last February’s Kitten Bowl.

The mysterious “Caribbean”

This afternoon, I watched the Miss Marple episode called, “A Caribbean Mystery.” I would have watched it sooner if I’d realized that Charity Wakefield had a main role – she’s the actress who played my favorite Marianne Dashwood, and I hadn’t seen her in any of her other many roles.

Anyway. The really interesting role, I thought, was that of South Africa, portraying the Caribbean island of “St. Honoré.” I mean, it should have been easy enough to fly the actors to the Caribbean, had they wanted, but instead they went to South Africa. Perhaps that’s because South Africa is at least as beautiful and an easier place for reserving a filming location? It was altogether lovely.