Foster kittens

We brought two three week old kittens home from the Humane Society yesterday. They are part of a litter of six that came in from God-knows-where a couple of days ago. We are going to look after them until they are big enough to go for adoption in maybe five weeks time.

I just finished giving them their noon feed. I got about 10ml of KMR into each of them which isn't too bad. They are both boys. One seems perfectly healthy, the other a little bedraggled and undernourished but we are managing to get him to eat more now and with a bit of luck he will be fine.

We are keeping the Bengals out of the room where the kittens are caged but they are very curious and spend a lot of time sniffing at the door. We hope to be able to let them play together in another couple of weeks or so.

Book stuff

Shamelessly stolen from bopeepsheep

"Is all fiction. Fiction, fiction, fiction. There will be no ever-existing people or places allowed. OK?"

Who, from a book, would you most like to meet?
Brother William from The Name of the Rose

Why do you want to meet them?
I have a strong empathy with fish out of (intellectual) water. Especially if they are ahead of their time.
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Would you like to meet them in their bookverse or in your world?
Mine. I think it would fascinate him.

What would you talk to them about?
Philosophy.

Would you do anything? Feed them food? Visit a fairground? Go shopping for fish? What would you do?
Wander the city, soak up its sights, eat in restaurants, drink in pubs.

Who, from a book, would you *least* like to meet?
Mrs. Bennett from Pride and Prejudice.

Why do you not want to meet them?
She would drive me up the wall, across the ceiling and down the other side!

Would you run away and hide, or kick them in the shins, or do something else entirely?
There's the rub. A difficult character to escape from without being intolerably rude.

What book universe would you most like to visit for a day?
Beowulf
For a week?
The Iliad
A year?
Persuasion

Is there a book-universe you would trade for here forever?
Persuason, if I could be Captain Wentworth.

Why would you like to visit these book-universes?
Unanswered questions. And to have fun.

Where do you most want to *not* be? And why?
In Nick Jenkins' shoes as assistant to Widmerpool in The Soldiers Art. I make a crap dogsbody, especially to a shit.

If you could be a person from a book for a day, a week, a year, forever, who would you want to be for each?
A day: Beowulf
A week: George Sherston in Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
A year: Brother William from The Name of the Rose
Forever: Wentworth in Persuasion.

Would you like to be in your world or bookworld?
Bookworld. No point being a fish out of water.

Why do you want to be these book-people?
Experiences I would like to have.