Houses of Commons, Lords, and Cats!

This blog is a bit late for the end of November, but who’s counting … Jeff & I had a very interesting trip to the Houses of Parliament early November, as lunch guests of our MP, Geraint Davies. We then went into the public gallery in the House of Commons, where the MPs were discussing various issues concerning the Welsh Government. We also managed a visit to the House of lords, to hear the tail end of a debate about TV advertising. I was surprised how interesting I found it, but it probably helped that I could relate to both matters. And the Lords still has some great traditions like the speaker sitting on the Woolsack, and at the end of the session proceeding out behind the mace. Well worth a visit if you are that way inclined.

Before we came back to Swansea we had a chance to take in Westminster at night, and took some pics of each other, as well as other views when we took a leisurely stroll over Westminster Bridge & back,
including the London Eye.

That’s the ‘dry’ bit over & done with, now for the fun, as we have two, soon to be three, new additions to the household : Gabriela Matilda, Monica Blaze, and Richie Peeps (no, the Peeps wasn’t our idea!) : Two girls and a boy all around about 6 months old, not related but the girls are very similar, both black & white.

So far the girls appear to be settling in well, that is if the fact that they have knocked over a vase of flowers, broken a plate, tried to get in the fridge amongst other things, is anything to go by! The names? Well, they had already been given Matilda, Blaze & Peeps, but when we went to choose them the girls were being very cheeky so you can probably work out the rest. On the other hand Richie is partly after Dad but not really sure why I thought of it. He’s all black and sadly lost an eye during a very severe bout of cat flu, but he’s still cute and gets on well with the girls. And as there are three of us, one cat each!

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