Someone wrote in a comment last week that she’d always harbored romantic visions of Cornwall, and I wrote back (somewhere in this sprawling mess I call a blog) that it’s an easy place to romanticize, even though I’m something of an anti-romantic.
And then on Sunday morning I woke to the sound of a cat upchucking on the floor and thought, What could be more romantic than my life?
Whoever it was who wrote that comment, I apologize for not remembering and so not being able to find it and link to your blog. It never crossed my mind to post anything about it until the cat threw up this morning, and the comments, much as I love them, are threatening to overwhelm me, so going back and checking them all? Ack. Not possible.
In the meantime, think of romantic Cornwall and the perfect life Wild Thing and I live here.
P.S.: It’s raining.
Seriously. That’s hilarious. Who invented that phrase, upchucking?
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I’m not sure. It’s American–that’s all I know about it.
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I realized, after I posted this, that in American slang (it may be regional–I’m not sure) “chuck” can mean “throw”–as in “chuck it over the fence.” So upchuck? Literally, throw up. But probably because the sound is so right, backwards.
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I’ve always thought of Cornwall, and pretty much the entire of the UK, as rainy and dreary. People sitting indoors all rugged up. Romantic? I’m not much of a romantic person but I suppose that would equate to a lot of comfort in a sense. Very cheery flowers there.
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The flowers are beautiful, and the price we pay for them is all that rain. Really, it is a rainy climate. But the sun comes out sometimes and it’s startlingly beautiful when it does.
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Rainy – yes, but dreary – no. We don’t get a huge amount of rain compared to many parts of the world (such as the Amazon basin), but it can rain pretty much at any time – I think the word “random” describes it well. But the wonderfully varied British landscape can be beautiful even when it does rain. And when we get showery weather (shortish bursts of rain, interspersed with clear periods), the combination of blue sky, clouds and rain-washed green fields immediately after a shower can be breathtaking.
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Some of my most memorable walks have been in fog. It’s beautiful.
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Sounds like a beautiful scene once showery weather has come and gone. I’m sure sometimes there are stunning rainbows too.
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There can be. The first autumn we lived here we saw rainbow after rainbow and thought it was always like that. It’s not, but I’ve seen more here than I ever did back in the U.S.
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Mabel, we certainly do have our fair share of rain but interspersed with crisp, clear days when we trudge through leaves and kick them up in the air before jumping in puddles and remembering our ages. In Suffolk, when it is nice, it is incredibly nice and we’ve had plenty of good days this year. As Ellen said in her reply, it’s the price we pay and that’s spot on. We can’t have it all ways.
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There is nothing quite like that sound in the dark :)
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Not a thing.
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…and you just know they’re doing on your favourite sheepskin rug, not the kitchen lino!
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Sheepskin’s washable. In our house, they’ll try for something more difficult. Back in Minneapolis, we had a jute rug. It was rough textured and impossible to clean and the animals (I have to include the dogs here) would come from the farthest part of the house to puke on it. We finally gave up and got rid of it.
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Yup, that sounds all too familiar…
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We’ve learned to think ahead since then.
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…and I bet it goes something like this: Do not buy soft furnishings that aren’t machine washable. Do not leave empty plastic bags out between the hours of 2-7am. Do not waste your money on “cat furniture”. Just get the empty boxes instead.
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And whenever possible, get brown paper bags. (They’re hard to find here but I just lucked into three. The kitten’s ecstatic.)
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P.S. You are brilliantly funny this morning. (It’s morning here, anyway.)
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Thanks. It’s afternoon here, but that’s a great comment to launch myself into the afternoon on.
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I’ve only spent one week in Cornwall yet, back in the 80, but that was in perfect sunshine! :) Luck? Or climate change?
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A bit of each, I suspect. Summers, they tell me, have gotten rainier. But a whole week? That’s luck. It’s beautiful, isn’t it?
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Well, since my husband and I visited Cornwall with our 4 kids, I wasn’t really feeling the “romantic vibe” but we all loved it! We did a two week UK trip in June- stayed 3 nights in Marazion with a day trip out to Scilly and had absolutely beautiful weather. I would love to go back and explore more of Cornwall.
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All romance and sick cats aside, it really is beautiful.
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the romanticism seems to have got to you: you actually posted a …..”semi” relevant photo :)
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I’m in trouble, aren’t I? Next thing you know, I’ll be dressing in lacy whatevers and wafting around the cliffs thinking I’m very–um, something.
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that’ll be interesting :)
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Especially with winter coming on.
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I’m just trying to imagine that sound.
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You’ve never lived with a cat, then.
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Hope kitty is ok. One of mine pooed in my bed on Tuesday morning while I was still in it and then peed in said bed last night and soaked through five layers. I slept on the couch last night, with an apologetic (I think) cat snuggling on top of me.
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Our older cat throws up regularly–she always has–but actually, she’s not well. Her appetite’s diminishing and it looks like we’re coming to the end here. All we can do is tempt her to eat and hang in there with her. But the vomiting? Probably not a symptom. So thanks for asking. What about yours? Peeing in the bed would worry me. In my experience, at least, it’s very uncatlike behavior unless something’s wrong.
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Oh, I’m sorry. I don’t like hearing about the end of an animal’s life. Please keep me posted on her health. (You have my email). As for mine, it’s because I didn’t clean the litter box for a few days. It happens when I get lazy, and I have no one to blame but myself. Ironically, I was cleaning the box last night when he peed on my bed.
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I’m glad that it’s nothing worse than that. They do have their ways of letting us know what they want, don’t they? If I don’t clean out the litter box often enough, the dog does (bleah), so that has a way of keeping me focused.
Thanks for the sympathy. I feel an odd mix of sadness and acceptance. She’s 19 or 20, so it’s not unexpected. But still.
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Hugs in advance <3
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Thanks. Really–many thanks. She’s doing well just now–for a cat who isn’t doing well, that is.
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The cat did not throw up on the sofa or spread. He probably thought he was doing the polite thing.
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I’m sure you’re right and I’m sure I’ll have plenty of occasions to remind myself of your wisdom.
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