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Mary’s Diary, Exile, Day 14
You may not know that we, les chattes*, have a deep interest in technology. As we have been present among humans for centuries, we have...

Bea Konyves
Jan 4, 20221 min read


Mary’s Diary, Exile, Day 13
I have been informed that today is a Monday. I was aware of it regardless. There is a certain feeling in the air on Mondays. Misery, I...

Bea Konyves
Jan 3, 20221 min read


Mary’s Diary, Exile, Day 12
Spending time with these humans makes me realise the privilege of being born a chatte*. Our species shares all its knowledge - when one...

Bea Konyves
Jan 2, 20221 min read


Mary’s Diary, Exile, Day 11, 2022
The Réveillon* passed smoothly. The three humans had one more human as a guest. Apart from listening to music and feasting (where I was...

Bea Konyves
Jan 1, 20221 min read


Mary’s Diary, Exile, Day 10, New Year’s Eve
The writer human insisted that she appears in today’s picture as a reminder that this is her B-Side Blog and her daily posts are usually...

Bea Konyves
Dec 31, 20211 min read


Let's hope it's a good one...
A very Merry Christmas And a happy new year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear The original Celine Dion version, the John Lennon...

Bea Konyves
Dec 31, 20213 min read


Mary’s Diary, Exile, Day 9
I find it riveting to observe other fellow chats et chattes* who spend time outside the comfort of their homes. There has been such one...

Bea Konyves
Dec 30, 20211 min read


Mary’s Diary, Exile, Day 8
Today the writer/youth worker human invited me to provide her with my opinion on her very first novel. I read her synopsis carefully and...

Bea Konyves
Dec 29, 20211 min read


Mary’s Diary, Exile, Day 7
It is yet another day in Exile. It has been a while since my Assistant has left me with these humans for a period of time. One of the...

Bea Konyves
Dec 28, 20211 min read


Mary’s Diary, Exile, Day 6
It appears that the writer/youth worker human is a scholar. Her surname of Hungarian origin has the same meaning. After finalising the...

Bea Konyves
Dec 27, 20211 min read


Mary’s Diary, Exile, Day 5
It has been such a blessing to be left alone one whole day! However, I must admit that the lack of fresh water was quite a nuisance. Our...

Bea Konyves
Dec 26, 20211 min read


Bonus: ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens
Mary’s Diary, Exile, Day 4, Christmas Day Yesterday, as a so-called festive treat, I was fed a small meal of gravy wet-food. Exquisite....

Bea Konyves
Dec 25, 20211 min read


24. ‘A Christmas Tree and a Wedding’ by Fyodor Dostoievski
Mary’s Diary, Exile, Day 3, Christmas Eve So much hustle and bustle in this house today! Every human seems to be engaged in some sort of...

Bea Konyves
Dec 24, 20211 min read


What Christmas is...
Christmas has always been a big deal for me, but I have a confession to make - I didn’t feel the Christmas Spirit too much in the last...

Bea Konyves
Dec 24, 20214 min read


23. ‘The Cat on the Dovrefjell’ - Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and J
Mary’s Diary, Exile, Day 2 Yesterday I decided that postponing the return to a somewhat regular routine would only affect my wellbeing...

Bea Konyves
Dec 23, 20211 min read


22. ‘One Christmas Eve’ by Langston Hughes
Mary’s Diary, Exile, Day 1 I was awoken by a human sitting on the sofa I now claim as my own. They did not seem intimidated by my...

Bea Konyves
Dec 22, 20211 min read


21. ‘Reginald’s Christmas Revel’ by Saki
Mary’s Diary, Exile, Day 0 Uhm… I have been asked to write here… My writing is exquisite, but my process is special. Why of course I will...

Bea Konyves
Dec 22, 20211 min read


20. ‘The Set of Poe’ by George Ade
Yesterday evening, we watched the 1999 ‘A Christmas Carol’ with Sir Patrick Stewart. I’m also reading the book at the moment, and I can’t...

Bea Konyves
Dec 20, 20211 min read


19. ‘At Christmas Time’ by Anton Chekhov
We finished gift shopping a week ago, did you think we would leave food shopping for the last minute? Especially with more restrictions...

Bea Konyves
Dec 19, 20211 min read


18. ‘The Fir-Tree’ by Hans Christian Andersen
Buying a (real) tree together was part of Christmas with my parents every year. It was a bit sad to see all those cut trees, but it was a...

Bea Konyves
Dec 18, 20211 min read
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