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The Black Cat monthly round-up: January 2025

Last year, my New Year’s resolution was to read at least one chapter of a novel…
The Black Cat monthly round-up: November & December 2024

The December blog post is traditionally my stats report, so here we go. This is the…
The Black Cat monthly round-up: October 2024

October wasn’t the most exciting of months. I took Oscar for his dental check (he doesn’t…
The Black Cat round-up: July–September 2024

Okay, so, this is a round-up for the last three months – the blog had to…
The Black Cat monthly round-up: June 2024

June was a difficult month – some pretty unfortunate family news consumed a lot of my…
The Black Cat monthly round-up: May 2024

There’s not a lot of work to report for May. I had a fairly light schedule…
The Black Cat monthly round-up: October 2023

This might be the last time I mention the unfortunate broken rib incident: I have returned…
The Black Cat monthly round-up: September 2023

September is the month of my birth, so I had a few birthday outings – most…
The Black Cat monthly round-up: August 2023

As predicted, August was not an exciting month – turns out that having a broken rib…
The Black Cat monthly round-up: July 2023

Well, this is a bit embarrassing to admit, but I fell off a horse and broke…