Ella won’t take the cat back. /Andy

We’d bought a house together. We had a son together. We’d been married 6 weeks. It was all insanely great. 1 thing was missing: we needed a pet. I really loved the grey one Whiskas were running in their adverts at the time. My ex called me and told me of a friend who’s cat had a new litter of kittens she needed to re-home, one of them ...

I changed jobs 2 months ago. For 5 years I worked for a family run company. Nice place. Good people. Family companies offer some benefits more corporate companies don't. They tend to prioritise work/life balance. They tend to not be too formal or admin heavy. Communication is quite straightforward. Leadership is accessible. I liked wor...

It's been a week. This time 7 days ago, we were taking Socks to the vet. Deep down, we knew it was probably the last time but there's always hope. Sadly, it was not to be. Since then we've been reflecting. Mostly sharing stories. Trying to understand the confusion of her loss. Trying to overcome any personal sense of guilt and digging ...

I've become somewhat used to not seeing her anymore. I still look over to her favourite spot on the sofa and say "Hey Socksy". I still hear her little chirpy response and I go and touch her fur thats still on the sofa. And at night "night night Socks", and I stroke the bridge of her nose on the little memorial Emily made. She's with me...

Grief is a completely new thing for me. I've been sad before, but to have lost something so meaningful is virgin territory for me. Today is the first day since Socks passed, that I've felt a little bit kinda-normal. Don't get me wrong, I miss her like crazy but I can look at her photo and feel warmth. I can hear her purr and smile. The...

I still see her when I wake up. And I still look down to see if she's lying on my lap. That habit. That ritual, developed over 16 years, is going to take some time to leave me. Truthfully, I hope it never does. Although her absence hurts like hell, it makes me feel close to her still. But there's a slight change. The tears are now mixe...

In the moments before I'm fully awake, I see her little face and hear her calming purr. For most of her life, Socks would sleep on me. Frequently for entire nights. What a gift. To wake up and your little pal is using you as her cushion. To have her there, as my first interaction of the day. Man this sucks. Today my brain kept replayin...

It's 2 days since Socks passed. Our gorgeous little cat, died at 14:13pm on 26th July. She was old and her little heart just couldn't pump enough anymore. She went peacefully. And was surrounded by the 4 people that knew and loved her the most. Her family. From the moment we got her, as an under-nourished 6 week old kitten, she just fi...

We had to say goodbye to our cat today. She was 16. We've had her since she was 6 weeks old. We called her Socks because when she was a kitten, she was predominantly grey but with 2 Guinness Creamy front paws. It looked like she was wearing Socks and her ears perked up whenever we said that word (socks). So Socks it was. We rescued her...

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Around the year 2001, I lived in a little village in rural England. A friend of mine, George (RIP), lived in the neighbouring village. We both worked in tech and for complementary companies. George and I wanted to get a partnership going and have my company licence his technology. Conversations like this take a lot of time to negotiate...

For around a year now, my 2018 MBP has been running like a dog. The fan spins constantly, the laptop is too hot to touch, opening more than 6 tabs in Safari would grind the machine to a halt and I'd only get around 2 hours of battery life. Somewhat convinced there's a hardware fault, I took it to my local Genius bar, they checked it an...

The closest I ever came to having a blog, was running a Posterous account. I miss Posterous. It was a tool too useful to exist, so, as is customary for these times, Twitter bought it and promptly killed it. Perhaps Hey World will full the void that Posterous created. We'll see. For the time being though, Hello World. I'm excited to mee...