shameless denied catnip dark lullaby

last week at the same time josiah was here and we ran up the stairs to see shameless only to find irish G sat watching a DVD...

this week i'd arranged to meet the very same irish G up there for it, stepped in only to find K & M sat watching a DVD...

denied, two weeks in a row, you'd have thought this would happen all the time, but until recently i've never had to reserve the TV for something i'd like to watch...

the winter months bringing the cold... bringing more of the residents into the TV room...

damn them...

so instead of watching shameless i went downstairs with balthazara to have a play with the catnip... the plant that i brought home from work, given to me by sox's T, only just got around to reading up on it on the web, previously i've put the plant on the ground and she's gone up to it to check it out, sticking her nose into it...

T had told me that they like the leaves dried... so i'd picked off some dried leaves and crushed them but she hadn't seemed that interested, now i find that i have to pick a healthy leave and dry it myself... not so straightforward...

and i'm wandering if she's immune to it, she doesn't go particularly crazy for it, but then maybe she's not getting the right dosage/fix..?

more news as and when it comes in...

and then the dark lullaby, which now seems to be hanging out with an older tune that i found written on some paper when i was looking for tax return related things...

this other tune was only the bare bones, i played it the other day and i remembered it but the arrangement i was playing before wasn't there... i've been playing around with it for the last few days trying to awaken the tune in my head/soul/body... tonight after the catnip test i came up to the fender rhodes and gave it another go and another piece fell into place, how i'd been playing it, and now i'm wandering just when that was...?

this one is a rising thing, set against the dark lullaby which is falling, they're definately related, belonging to the same family... just got to stitch together a family tree and find the missing links...

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