Memento Mori

Not-so-cute cats (mostly). Do not fear, there are no dead cats in this post, but perhaps rat-owners might be advised to look away and to skip this one. Continuing with my little series of cat mezzotint prints, I felt it was important that I didn’t end up with a series entirely comprising nice cute cat pictures. Cats are lovely, but lets have the Compleat Cat. Therefore, I thought at the very least there should be the classic cat-washing-bum pose, and at lease one dead rat. We have chickens and where they live has become so badly undermined with rats we…

Max’s Rats

…being the rats belonging to Max of course, not a statement that Max is Rats 😉 Another birthday, in Spelling Animals…

Spelling Animals: Introducing the performing rodents

Another year of nieces’ and nephews’ birthdays begins! We have had lizards, cats and snakes (with ladders), so I have been hard at work breeding and training up a new kind of spelling animal. It’s a sort of rodent. They started as rats, but some of them look a bit… well. Anyway, you can judge for yourself: