11 Jul 2021

cimorene: closeup of Jeremy Brett as Holmes raising his eyebrows from behind a cup of steaming tea (eyebrows)
Last night I had a dream that finally the BBC were making a new complete Sherlock Holmes adaptation set in the Victorian era and attempting to be loyal to the text - the first such since Granada! - and with modern budget and filming techniques...

...and I was SO EXCITED, and then I started watching them and the one change they had made was that they inexplicably added an extra sidekick character in some of the episodes (like a quarter) named Jimmy Carr and played by British comedian Jimmy Carr and essentially doing his normal comedian stuff but just... as if he'd been there in the Victorian era.

I was sort of like "Huh. Weird, but... okay. It's kind of fun." Except then it got to one episode which in my dream was a canon Holmes story I remembered (it wasn't really one though) and in that one they had taken out Watson, who was usually there, and replaced him with Jimmy Carr, and I was just thinking, "I have to look this up after I watch this, because something must have happened, like maybe the Watson actor was suddenly unavailable," only then my alarm went off to give the cat his insulin and I woke up.

*Because it makes canon more like itself to have it be more gay really, let's be honest, so you barely notice
cimorene: A very small cat peeking wide-eyed from behind the edge of a blanket (cat)
I've had to make a number of cat diet adjustments since Snookums was diagnosed with diabetes. I had a struggle getting Snookums and the BB onto a wet food diet at all, but it's essential for diabetic cats and, as it later turned out that the BB died of kidney disease (which is epidemic in domestic cats since the rise of dry petfood diets, as is diabetes), she was essentially killed by this cat-inappropriate diet and our prior ignorance about it. I tried a few years ago to get them to eat a raw diet simply because it would have been the easiest diabetic-friendly diet we could get; it didn't work because Snookums was always ambivalent about the raw food and the BB could never be convinced to eat it at all.

But! Tristana arrived this April, and she and her littermates had all been regularly fed both raw and commercial wet catfood. We bought the breeders' recommended raw food, which is store brand Maukas from Musti ja Mirri, a major Finnish petstore chain, and Snookums and Tristana both love it! We added it to their diet gradually at first, but I can now say confidently that Snookums's stomach is fine with it. I don't think it is upsetting his blood sugar much either, although I'd need a longer period of him eating just it to know for sure.

So for the first time now we have the option to potentially actually feed only or primarily raw food. Obviously we couldn't mail order it like we have been forced to do with the canned food, since it's frozen, but I suppose driving from Kaarina is a fair trade for the shipping costs and weights.

Anyway, we currently pay about 5.60€ per kilo of catfood (but this is dependent on the rate of 12 kg per month. If we bought six months at a time, for instance, like a friend does, it would end up around 4-5€/kg) and Maukas is 7€/kg. So the raw diet would cost about 1.40€/kg more, or an additional 17€ per month.
cimorene: The words "I've never seen anything like that before" hand lettered in medieval-reminiscent style (wow)



Two of these are in my most-used ink, Diamine Marine, and the other two are in two of my newest inks, Herbin Bouquet d'Antan and Sailor Ink Studio #280.

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