Hiphopsideproject

… when there are these beasts to keep me company…

(I have a gross cold and currently sat with warm drinks, tissues and my sex & the city boxset)

So Bramble & Pumpkin are fast growing into full sized cats now, I thought I’d share some recent photos of them with you. Everyone likes cat photos, right?

We left out grill pan out to wash after cooking bacon on Sunday morning. Came back to it at lunch time to wash it, only to find some cheeky little bastard had discovered a taste for bacon grease… nice!

We totally got a flip ultra HD, it rocks. I haven’t got a vimeo account yet, so this isn’t it’s full potential (I don’t think flickr does very good quality?)… but look, see how my kittens HATE it already! Can’t wait to make stupid videos with this, you’ve been warned.

Sorry there was no weekly good stuff on Friday, I completely forgot :/ My bad. This was going to be included, but I’ll give it a separate post instead. First, here’s a photo of Pumpkin enjoying a box of screwed up newspaper.

And here is Bramble, looking rather concerned by the whole pumpkin-falling-asleep-in-a-box scandal.

We official became ‘cat people’ last Thursday, too. The kittens were getting way too big for their original scratching post, knocking it down constantly. They’ve also developed a love of climbing curtains (the breed that they’re half of are notorious tree climbers), so we decided it was time to get them a cat tree. Jesus, it’s so much bigger than we thought! It’s as tall as me! they love it, though, and have taken to sleeping on the ledges too.

And for some sad news, you might remember me saying that last weekend was super rubbish and shitty. Last sunday evening we got a call from Adam’s mum saying that their cat, Brodie Rattmaus, had been knocked over by a car and was found by the roadside. She had already passed away when they found her. I’m still pretty shocked and upset by this, it was the middle of the day and she was a large cat, I can’t grasp how someone wouldn’t have seen her. She’d also gone quite far from their house, the ironic thing is that behind their house are acres of long grass fields, but she went the other side to the road. So sad. I’ll miss that kitten, she was lovely.

Hi guys, how was your week? I had another pretty full on one, what with going to the cinema 3 times, visiting the Yorkshire show and building our kitchen. The weekend’s going to be chilled out, and we have no plans set for next week either… bliss!

• I take it all your *proper* harry potter fans caught a showing on opening day, right? We surely did… and on the big screen to boot! We were turning it into a potter fest with some friends, but alas they didn’t book their tickets and it was sold out. What did you think? I know there’s been a bit of controversy due to the amount of stuff that they didn’t include, but what did you expect? it’d be about a day long if they did it verbatim! I also think it had the best scene that Daniel Radcliffe has ever acted. By FAR!
• The other two films we caught this week were Brüno (which I found so nervously funny) and ‘Let the Right One In’ which I wrote about yesterday. Cinema was like a second home this week, I must say!

• I almost wrote an entirely seperate post about this, but then forgot. This little portable cube, measuring just a few metres square, sleeps 4 people with a full working environment. It includes a shower, kitchenette, bathroom, mp3 surround sound, flat screen TV… and a telescope! Completely with a viewing hatch for the stars whilst you sleep in one of the pull-out beds. Now that we’ve pulled down our asbestos ridden shed in the backgarden….. Anyway, you should check out the website, much more photos and information there. So adorable.
• An interesting post about how cocaine & other drugs used to be freely available, and what products they were used in. From a branding & packaging point of view, it’s quite strange to see cocaine aimed at children!
• Agentlover went to Tokyo, and has been blogging about it. Sea Of Shoes went a week or so ago, too, and also blogged/photographed. I definitely need to go to Tokyo.

• After reading the interview with Matthew Scott on Pikaland this week, I headed straight to his etsy store and picked up one of these prints. This will adorn part of our staircase wall :)

• Your cute for the week, my two kittens in a basket. You can follow their growth and antics on my flickr account, I should make a blog for them, really!

• Ultimate puzzlement, this is like a rubiks cube on acid. Amazing.

• And finally… I thought you might want to see these amazing Asics trainers. Available from Nov. 1st apparently. WANT! Unfortunately, it seems they’re only going to be US based.. as per usual with anything remotely good lookin’.