Kat 🦁

just a girl and her nemesis

(yes I have very briefly reappeared here because I got to vote in a general election of a country I actually live in for the first time ever!!)

how do we feel about homemade indoor-only cats at polling stations? @AndrewSparrow?

making a rare appearance here to introduce Malka she was found in a park after a dog or fox attack, patched up by the vet and now about to live her best life 🥰

despite all optimism my knee is absolutely not well enough to go out, so there's a ticket going (free) to Baroque Hanukkah at @StJohnsSmithSq 7.30 tonight while I cry at home – please share!

@TheKnowledge_GU was watching ice hockey recently and came across the concept of the Gordie Howe hat trick (we also immediately named our quiz team this) – one goal, one assist and one fight in a single game. surely there must be football contenders for this too

Last call for this week's column: any more questions?

@VictorianLondon would have been there in person if I wasn’t under strict orders to stay home! I look after the archive there 🙂

@byekitty sorry about that! ;-)

have torn the meniscus in my left knee and am under strict orders not to go anywhere for two weeks. feels like lockdown all over again except without all the free music content and I’m missing a lot of Christmas parties

@melindahaunton possibly time to revive my Netflix subscription… already one BBC series and one audiobook down

@byekitty Oh ugh. That's infuriating. All I have is Netflix recommendations and some under the counter lectures on the Florentine renaissance, more than happy to share those if distracting.

@mwatton2525 glad you realise what the most crucial implication is here! very much hoping to be back on 23 December but need to be sensible

@byekitty Sorry to hear this, Kat. Hope you're back on the Park Run circuit soon.

@LizARees You’ll be disappointed to learn that I have never seen this before! (I am also disappointed in myself)

A quick turn round National Football Museum before heading to ⁦@archivesplus⁩. ⁦@byekitty⁩ has almost certainly seen this but cool that 1st England shirts were knitted with a lacy pattern

@jaymc82 this is exactly why this November I went on a much more suitable holiday

update: got to check my suitcase for free so there’ll be tortillas chez Kat before too long

also, saw this and immediately wanted to yell at them for not supporting that book correctly. #archivistproblems

looks suspiciously like the Fall of Man was the cat’s fault all along … ?

@Tomi_Tapio It’s not sharp

@byekitty "Tool with a blade or shaft longer than 6cm (for example chisel)" not in hand lug

complete souvenir collection 🥰 I hope BA don’t object to a tortilla press in hand luggage

for the first time ever I’ve been told I can’t fly with my knitting needles (literally the same needles I had on me for the two previous flights on this trip). about to sit through a three-hour flight with zero things to do with my hands

weather update

reading Aldous Huxley’s Beyond the Mexique Bay and would love to have his take on it

having a bit of Weather here in Isla Mujeres which is sabotaging my beach plans. realised too late that the cafe I’m sheltering in has Eat Pray Love written on the walls. are we still doing this in 2023??