National Tea Day

 21 April is National Tea Day UK!

I love tea, almost as much as I love cats and books.

Lift a hot cup of your favorite brew to toast this wonderful beverage today.

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Larry the Cat at 10 Downing Street

Larry, a rescue cat, is the Chief Mouser at The Prime Minister's Residence, London!

Read more about Larry here: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157507569/larry-cat-no-10-downing-street-british

Larry takes no guff from anyone.

The Prime Ministers who've served while Larry has been in office:

David Cameron: 11 May 2010 – 13 July 2016

Theresa May: 13 July 2016 – 24 July 2019

Boris Johnson: 24 July 2019 – 6 September 2022

Liz Truss: 6 September 2022 – 25 October 2022

Rishi Sunak: since 25 October 2022

(Lots of turnover!)

Larry began his employment on 15 February 2011, as companion animal to Mr. Cameron's children, but his talents in rodent control have kept him employed, and housed, at the residence.

You go, Larry!

Hope your invitation to the King's Coronation is in the post!

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Dr. Ruth Galloway, cat lover

The Ruth Galloway Mystery Series, written by Elly Griffiths

Image from the interwebs

The Crossing Places, 2009
The Janus Stone, 2010
The House at Sea’s End, 2010
A Room Full of Bones, 2011
A Dying Fall, 2012
The Outcast Dead, 2014
The Ghost Fields, 2015
The Woman In Blue, 2016
The Chalk Pit, 2017
The Dark Angel, 2018
The Stone Circle, 2019
The Lantern Men, 2020
The Night Hawks, February 2021
The Locked Room, October 2022

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I recently discovered the Ruth Galloway series, written by Elly Griffiths, on a Facebook group.

This series, to me, is like eating potato chips; you can't have just one!

Or more like the saying, "Cats are like potato chips; you can't have just one"?

Anyhow, one aspect of this series is that Ruth loves her cats!

Ruth is an archaeologist, living in North Norfolk, U.K.

She teaches at the nearby university, and finds herself involved with the local police when a skeleton is discovered and they call upon her unique skills at identifying buried bones.

There are other fun things, like druids, saltmarshes, spectral hounds and boogey men, and some good old romps in the sack!

She pines for her cat, Flint, whenever she's away from home for more than a few days.

*Warning*

Cats are harmed in the first two books, and that in itself would put me off a series (and a writer) in a heartbeat!

However, the author has made it very clear that she deeply regrets writing about such cruel things, and I've encountered no more of this type of nastiness in any of the other books.

The author is a true cat-lover.

I've halfway through book #13!

I'm told there is a TV series based on these books, but I haven't seen it...yet.