And this is why I don’t do work conferences from home.
Here was I thinking that Britain went down the toilet thanks to downstream consequences of the culling of its best genetic stock in 1915/16. How wrong one was; Toxoplasmosis strikes again!
According to some post headlines, the cat’s tail is just about the least embarrassing “extra” to make it into a video conference.
As for the Brits, cats have served the upper echelons of government since Cardinal Wolsey’s time, thus long before WWI. A short and amusing history of the UK’s Chief Mousers is here, on Mark Felton’s channel. Felton is a historian who specializes in WWII, but he decided to give his subscribers a non-military video for New Year’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXkY8rBiPPo&ab_channel=MarkFeltonProductions
The political cat fight between Larry (the PM’s resident cat) and Palmerston (Chief Mouser of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office) [around 9:50 in the video] shows that even bureau-cats will fight over turf.
PACat – what a delightful news report. Thanks for lightening the gloom and doom season.
“We shall catch mice in the attic, we shall catch mice in the basement and catch mice in the kitchen, and we shall never, never surrender.” (commenter)
Felton noted that the first modern day mouser was fed so much by the staff that he ceased to do his job, and had to be put on an official “salary” (a penny a day) and removed from the welfare rolls before he would go back to hunting the mice.
We had a cat once who looked very like your avatar.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aENX1Sf3fgQ
And this is why I don’t do work conferences from home.
Here was I thinking that Britain went down the toilet thanks to downstream consequences of the culling of its best genetic stock in 1915/16. How wrong one was; Toxoplasmosis strikes again!
According to some post headlines, the cat’s tail is just about the least embarrassing “extra” to make it into a video conference.
The COVID-19 lockdown has led to cats becoming the stars of virtual weather forecasts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB00rXhHnlM&ab_channel=Info-Videos
As for the Brits, cats have served the upper echelons of government since Cardinal Wolsey’s time, thus long before WWI. A short and amusing history of the UK’s Chief Mousers is here, on Mark Felton’s channel. Felton is a historian who specializes in WWII, but he decided to give his subscribers a non-military video for New Year’s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXkY8rBiPPo&ab_channel=MarkFeltonProductions
The political cat fight between Larry (the PM’s resident cat) and Palmerston (Chief Mouser of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office) [around 9:50 in the video] shows that even bureau-cats will fight over turf.
PACat – what a delightful news report. Thanks for lightening the gloom and doom season.
“We shall catch mice in the attic, we shall catch mice in the basement and catch mice in the kitchen, and we shall never, never surrender.” (commenter)
Felton noted that the first modern day mouser was fed so much by the staff that he ceased to do his job, and had to be put on an official “salary” (a penny a day) and removed from the welfare rolls before he would go back to hunting the mice.
We had a cat once who looked very like your avatar.