bluntie

domesticated us, and not the other way around. seb says it is so.
Dr Karen McComb, a specialist in mammal vocal communication at the University of Sussex, said that by employing an embedded cry, cats appear to be exploiting innate tendencies that humans have for nurturing offspring.

also, in a wonderful book called Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, the new breed of humans have been engineered to easily cure each other’s scrapes and wounds by purring, after it was discovered that cats purred at the same frequency as ultrasounds used on bone fractures and skin lesions. there are many things i want from this book.

catalan cats are less concerned about their appearance. one-eye is not young, and her skin is leathery and folded and thick around the belly. but you don’t see her hiding shyly in kaftans or tankinis when she leaves her grape-draped courtyard. it is bikini weather.
it is the heat that erodes the shame of bodies ageing. or it is age itself.  this village is full of older cats.
there is a steady parade of unstyled looks in the village and on the beach. chain-store does late 90s vintage, sportswear, unacceptable midriffs, ratstails. wondering why they do not care. where their self-consciousness is.

fatty bodies and little thought given to colourway

sentry cat in espadrilles.
no respect for the gravitas of a roman wall.

nasty caps and scrunchies for pizza-kitten

inconceivably for a tanned population, full pink outfit

bad curtains

the same disregard is evident in the built-up coastline extending all the way south to gibraltar. cheap tilt-up apartment slabs, many left naked by a burst bubble, built too close together and dividing the villages and towns from their beaches.

but i love this place, it is warm and the tomatoes are deep red and there are little fishing boats on the soft sand for the teenagers to hide behind at night.