Apparently I went for a lot of canal walks this month. This was partly because both children were off school for multiple days with a high fever, and I worked from home far more than I’d planned. There are even more cats than usual, too, because I made a lot of new, temporary moggie friends in Cyprus.


I took some liberties with the dates in this 1SE video so I could put in more footage from Maui. There are also a lot of cats. Not all of them are our cats. No one tell Astro and Comet.
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( Sep. 2nd, 2025 02:42 pm)


Despite all the Welsh holiday footage, Astro managed to sneak in here quite a lot. Meeting the talkative long-eared owl was one of the highlights. She had many and varied opinions.
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( Aug. 1st, 2025 08:54 pm)


There is a lot of wildlife in here, and for some reason both Keiki and my voice feature quite often.
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( Jun. 30th, 2025 10:04 pm)


I can't quite believe how much has happened this month. At least 60 days of stuff were packed into June's 30. And now we're halfway through the year. Dear Time, Please slow down, Love, Me.
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( May. 31st, 2025 02:18 pm)


Vienna => home => Cambridge => home => Hamburg => home => Norfolk => home

Not a lot of Humuhumu as she's been away for substantial portions of this month. We'd all like a little rest from travel, I think, but it's not happening until mid-June.
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( May. 4th, 2025 01:34 pm)


I rather missed the boat on this one, apologies for its lateness. In my defence, we've mostly not been in the UK for the past two weeks.

April starts off quite domestic with lots of cat clips, and finishes in central Europe with lots of adventure clips. We travelled from [home] to Vienna, Austria via nine different trains, one of which morphed into a German rail replacement bus services which turned out to be terribly civilised.
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( Mar. 2nd, 2025 07:38 pm)


A short but busy month, with trips to Wales and the USA. My face makes an appearance in there.
  1. Do you like your birth-name? Why?

    Yes. It is reflective of my birthplace and my parents. It's unnecessarily long. It is unique.

  2. If you could change your name to anything else, what would it be?

    When I was younger I sometimes wished I had a more Anglo name. I always liked Selene and Natasha. But I have no interest in renaming myself now.

  3. What names would you consider giving your children?

    Been there, done that! I think Keiki and Humuhumu's actual names suit them well. Sometimes I wish we'd given Keiki an additional Hawai'ian middle name, Keikani, but overall I think we got it right. Who knows what they'll think themselves when they're adults!

  4. If you had a band, what would you name it, and why?

    Sliced Bread (as in, best thing since).

  5. Is there a name that you completely hate? Why?

    I'm not very fond of Chad. It's a name I associate with bone headed twerps from my teenage years. Sorry to all the nice Chads out there.
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( Jan. 1st, 2025 09:21 pm)


Bookended by new whiskies. Plenty of cats, food, and family in between.

Happy New Year!
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