Heartbreak

Greetings, Effurryone. 

Many of you must have been wondering where we were last Sunday, when We failed to post Our usual Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies, in the blog hops hosted by (respectively) the Wise and Beautiful Athena and her HuMum, Marie and the Deliciously and Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

The reason is so pawful that even now, Mummy has difficulty in finding the words to tell you what happened. But (gulp) here it is.

Ten days ago, Mummy's youngest sister, Auntie Y. and her husband, Uncle N., were involved in a dreadful car accident on their way to the airport. There was a multi-car pile-up and their car, which was in the middle, was crushed. Auntie Y. and Uncle N. who were on their way to board a plane to Corfu for a short holiday to celebrate their wedding anniversary, never had a chance. We understand they were killed instantly. We pray they didn't suffer. 

Mummy still can't quite believe it. None of Us can.

Effurrybody has been so kind. Auntie Y. and Uncle N. left three orphan daughters, Mummy's nieces, and it seems as if the whole neighbourhood - nay, the whole city and beyond - has rallied round to support them. Hundreds of people attended the funeral. One of Auntie Y.'s best friends, Auntie A., whose daughters are close friends and about the same age as Mummy's nieces, invited Mummy, her nieces and Step-Grandma, for Shabbat supper the day before yesterday, so they wouldn't be alone with their Grief. She is a lovely lady and she is also a Cat Purrson. She has seven cats and a little woofie - a chihuahua. One of the cats, Lily, is deaf and almost blind and suffers from epilepsy. 

None of Us is in the mood to pose for selfies yet, so We thought We would invite Lily and the woofie - Bambi - to pose for guest selfies.

Here is Lily. We are so happy for her that, with all her disabilities, she has a good and loving home:

We artified Lily's selfie with LunaPic's Beauty filter at 60%, and then added an overlay of Dreaming at 25%:

And here is Bambi:

Bambi's selfie was artified with LunaPic's Candy filter at 80%, with a Dark overlay at 35%:

And here are the blog hop badges:

        

We will do Our best to visit as many of you as We can in the coming days, but in case We don't get to you all, please understand why. Mummy feels so emotionally drained that She has been avoiding social media as much as possible and only turning on the computer thing when absolutely necessary.

Before We go, We want to remind you that the Mewish New Year - Rosh Hashana - starts on Wednesday night, so to all who celebrate it, may you be signed and sealed for a good and sweet year.
In fact, may you all have a good and sweet New Year.

 לשנה טובה תכתיבו ותחתמו  (Leshana Tova Tichatevu veTichatemu)

Trixie in Yellow: Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies

Hallo again, Effurrybody!

Mummy has returned from Foreign Parts and so things can get back to Normal again (or as Normal as pawssible in Our Neck of the Woods).

Mummy went on a Nostalgia Trip to London, where She was born. She and her brother, Uncle D. (who lives there), spent most of their time revisiting their Childhood Haunts. Mummy will, no doubt, tell you all about it in her Own Bloggie, later this week. Meanwhile, We are furry happy to be able to pawticipate once more in the weekend Blog Hops - the Caturday Art blog hop, hosted by the Wise and Beautiful Athena and her HuMum, Marie and the Sunday Selfies blog hop, hosted by the Deliciously and Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

So let's cut straight to the Chase. Here is My Selfie. You can tell how happy I was to see Mummy again, can't you? Even though We managed to get more Treats out of Ms. M. who looked after Us while Mummy was away (not too many more, though. Mummy had given her furry precise instructions about Our Various Diets).

The yellow inner frame refurrences the yellow pin worn in solidarity with the families of the kidnapped Israelis still being held hostage in Gaza by the Evil Terrorists.

The black outer frame symbolises Our mourning for those murdered on October 7th last year in the Hamas terrorist attack. And the Israeli flag is self-explanatory.
We make no apawlogies for being pawlitical.

We artified this photo with LunaPic's Starry2 effect at 40%.

And finally, We used PhotoFunia to hang my New Pawtrait in the Melbourne Gallery:

Last, but definitely not least, are the blog hop badges:

        

That's all for now. See you again next week, same Cat Time, same Cat Channel.

Till then, be well. Be safe. We love you all.