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Helen Clayton

So while I was out gathering the Christmas dinner, my husband messed around with some leftover gingerbread dough.

Photo of various cat shaped gingerbread cookies on a piece of baking parchment. They have been decorated with white icing in random patterns. Three with the initials of our past cats. One has been decorated to look like a cat x-Ray, the cat having eaten a fish…of course it has.
23 December at 18:22 | Open on mas.to
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Ian K Tindale

@helenclayton just gathering then, presumably not a lot of hunting

23 December at 20:38 | Open on toot.pikopublish.ing
Sara
Trinsec

@helenclayton@mas.to Heh cute, that skeleton one is nice! Including the one in its stomach! Very creative! :D

23 December at 20:50 | Open on trinsec.org
Helen Clayton
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Helen Clayton

Photo from a drizzly Monday walk for #FootpathFriday.

A photo of a ‘view’ back along a coastal footpath. In the foreground a narrow muddy path descends towards a deep valley. The bottom of the valley is out of view behind a thick hedge of scrub adjacent to the path, gorse sprinkled with tiny yellow blossoms. The path reappears on the far side of the valley, a narrow green line that climbs steeply up through brown bracken. You can just make out steps in the path. It ascends into low grey cloud, the sea a bluer shade of grey below.
1 November at 17:24 | Open on mas.to
Helen Clayton

This is Gatsby who lives down the road. Always runs to say hello (except when there’s some pigeon-watching to be done) and gives the biggest bunts (my jeans are now covered in cat hair). He was also very talkative today.

A solid 12/10.

#CatReview #Cats

Photo of I think a cream colour point British shorthair cat trotting along a pavement to say hello, his grey striped tail sticking straight up in the air. Fading lavender flowers overhang the pavement and there are a couple of parked cars in the background.
Photo of same cat rubbing his smooshed cream and grey face against my be-jeaned knee (as I crouch on the pavement).
5 August at 13:03 | Open on mas.to
Helen Clayton

I have just found a treasure trove of old family photos. I haven’t got time to sort through them all but…

My maternal grandfather as a boy with his cat! (I presume it’s his rather than a stage prop. I remember him being a cat lover.)

#cats #CatsOfMastodon

Old black and white photo (slightly sepia) of a boy in a sailor suit standing next to a cloth-covered table on which sits a floofy tabby cat. Both are looking at the camera. It looks like the photo may have been taken in a studio.
19 July at 13:22 | Open on mas.to
Helen Clayton

We turn around and there are more kittens!

#CatsOfMastodon #kittens

A photo of a procession of three kittens - tabby and white, tabby, and black - leading down a couple of terracotta garden steps to their mum, a grey tabby sitting in loaf fashion eyeing the camera warily.
17 May at 20:57 | Open on mas.to
Helen Clayton

Back at the gîte some smol voidlets are becoming a bit more mobile. Very wobbly on their feets and not at all sure about people (quite rightly).

#Cats #kittens

A photo of two tiny black kittens exploring a gravelled corner of garden. Some planks of wood that initially been a barrier are now a playground. One kitten is practising a loaf at the top of a plank ramp, partially hidden by foliage on the right. The other is stalking the ramp in the centre. The scene is framed by red roses and foliage. The base of a garden umbrella is visible, part of their makeshift den.
16 May at 20:31 | Open on mas.to
Helen Clayton

A #Caturday themed photo memory from 10 years ago…a cake topper I made for a friend’s little girl Olive’s first birthday, based on her favourite story books ‘The Church Mice’ by Graham Oakley. The cake was the top tier from my friend’s wedding cake which I only had to decorate.

#Food

Photo of a cake topped with fondant figures of a marmalade tabby cat (Sampson), with a white bib, sitting surrounded by little brown mice in a circle of supposed garden (a green disc of icing edged with blades of icing grass and sprinkled with pastel coloured icing blossoms). The square cake is covered in white fondant icing and sprinkled with more blossoms and the name ‘Olive’ piped in green icing.
9 March at 19:59 | Open on mas.to
Helen Clayton

For a late #caturday…this photo of my little Billy Bobster just popped up in my ‘on this day’ 11 years ago. A special cat who wasn’t with us for long but left a lasting impression.

Photo of a small grey and white tabby cat curled up asleep on a grey fleece blanket on a cat tower / ‘activity centre’ positioned in front of a white radiator. He famously fell off the top tier while fast asleep, bless his little white floofy socks. We had guests at the time who remember Billy as the cat who ‘fell asleep’.
2 March at 21:27 | Open on mas.to
Helen Clayton

Hard to believe that this skinny little stray turned out to be the chonkiest of cats. The very much missed Alfie (best cat ever) on his ‘gotcha day’ for #ThrowbackThursday.

#CatsOfMastodon

Photo of a slim-looking brown tabby cat standing on a cream fleece blanket spread on a bed (a human bed). He is looking straight at the camera, looking defiant. He is standing over a plushie green cactus toy (character from the game Katamari Damacy) that he has been tussling with. A sign of chaos to come.
22 February at 21:25 | Open on mas.to
Helen Clayton
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