Though humans cannot speak cat, they vocalise repeatedly. Most of their vocalisations are meaningless and can be completely ignored. In urban areas, fun can be got from hunting human objects such as mink stoles or old underpants. For some reason this kind of prey is usually greeted with human laughter. To get a male human off an armchair, jump on ...
Adopt a rescue human. They think they are adopting you. Humans that need homes go to special places where cats are kept. These are rescue humans. Humans can't caterwaul - except in the bath or sometimes when they play the piano. They cannot purr. Cat psychologists suggest that this gap in the human vocal repertoire is due to their lack of inner ...
This wonderful collection of Celia Haddon's cat wisdom, will delight every cat lover with its knowing humour and practical advice. Anyone who reads this book will be guaranteed a ecstatic feline companion! Start training your kitten early. It has already started training you. Ban small girls from the house. Small girls are tempted to commit that ...
With paw, whisker, tail, meow, and posture at their disposal, cats have a whole range of gestures and movements that allow them to communicate their feelings and needs. In "Chats with Cats," Celia Haddon explains cat language in all its permutations, providing an insight into their fancies and foibles, their likes and dislikes. By tracing the cat ...
Anyone who lives with a cat will know of that strange and mysterious bond that grows between human and animal and which can bring such joy and fulfilment. Cats make houses into homes, heal stress and provide fun and entertainment. In this exquisitely produced anthology, drawn from the writing of cat lovers through the ages, Celia Haddon offers a ...
-The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story.Emil Ludwig -The kiss that's rapid or prolonged with art,The Fierce, the gentle, equal joys impart.Joannes Secundus-I felt the while a pleasing kind of smartThe kiss went tingling to my panting heart:When it was one, the sense of it did stay,The sweetness cling'd upon ...
An illustrated book of poetry and prose for daily inspiration and solace. A follow-on from the "Yearbook of Hope and Inspiration", it offers new readings, one for each day, drawing on a wide range of sources, with personal comments from the author, illustrated with Victorian paintings and cards. The author edited the following anthologies: "A Book ...
An illustrated anthology which aims to give reassurance and help to anyone who has recently been bereaved. With a range of poetry and prose from those such as Tennyson and Auden, it expresses the disbelief, the grief, the anger and the sadness felt by loved ones.
This giftbook contains a collection of wise sayings on the subject of leading a less stressful life. It draws its material from a wide range of sources.
A book of poetry and prose for daily reading with an entry for each day throughout the year. Ranging from Kipling's "If" to the thoughts of Mother Teresa and with personal comments from the author, the collection is aimed at the middle-aged and over.
Books of spiritual writings continue to be popular. But here, in one volume, are 100 of the greatest and most life-changing spiritual passages ever written, through the ages and across the faiths. Far from being predictable, this collection contains much that will be fresh and new, to discover and enjoy. Lao Tzu's Te Tao Ching, Dr Samuel Johnson, ...
Celia Haddon has gathered together some poems and prose on the "queen of fragrance", by writers throughout the centuries. Walter de la Mare, John Gerard, George Eliot, Tennyson, Coleridge, W.B. Yeats, Christina Rossetti, William Blake and others capture the many aspects of the rose. The book is illustrated with paintings and Victorian cards and ...
Cat Matters explains how to understand and communicate effectively with your cat, as well as how to build a bond of trust, improve your owner-cat relationship, and make the most of your pet. It includes entertaining and informative sections on vocal language, scents, reading your cat's pleasure ratio, how your cat can discover its inner kitten, ...
Completes Celia Haddon's series of yearbooks and contains quotations of poetry and prose - drawn from a wide range of sources - for each day of the year, for daily inspiration and solace, with personal comments by the author. It is illustrated with Victorian paintings and cards.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us. Aristotle A hedge between, keeps friendship green. Proverb Don't walk before me, I may not follow Don't walk behind me, I may not lead Just walk beside me and be my friend. Albert Camus The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beefs. ...
Cats are rarely as perplexed by human behavior as humans are by theirs. In this revealing little volume, cat lovers learn to read the feline mind--and get more than they bargained for.
A historical anthology of fairies, elves and goblins, illustrated with full-colour Victorian paintings. Through a mixture of prose and poetry, the book looks at fairy folklore, including rituals, music, dancing, processions fairy encounters with humans, fairy funerals and the vanishing of the little folk.
This is an eccentric insight into the often bizarre nature of the cat-human relationship, based on the funniest letters to be found in Celia Haddon's Daily Telegraph column. Anecdotes are give about humans who love too much, cats who burgle the next door neighbours, cats who wake their humans by lifting up their eyelids and owners who let their ...
A selection of verse celebrating the joys of motherhood, and illustrted with Victorian cards. It contains poems by writers such as Swinhburne, Herrick, Rossetti, Wordsworth, Blake and Browning, all aiming to capture the many moods of motherhood.
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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fairies
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Anna Franklin, Paul Mason (Illustrator), Helen Field (Illustrator)
