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It's been a bit of a traumatic day today, as one of our mogs fell off the roof. We think she was trying to jump from the roof terrace into our bedroom window, which was shut...

Three floors straight down, giving the downstairs neighbours an awful early morning shock, as they were confronted with a shocked cat with a mouth full of foaming blood, and us an urgent drive down to the vet.

Calli is one lucky beast, as the X-rays showed that the only damage was a few broken teeth - not the broken jaw we were fearing. So she's home now, after some emergency dentistry, gumming down her food as if nothing had happened. Meanwhile we have put netting all round the roof terrace, to make sure it doesn't happen again....

Time to breathe again...

I was complaining on Sunday afternoon, while trying to take photographs of the Farnborough airshow, that I never seem to be able to get a shot of the Red Arrows "synchro pair" doing one of their death-defying cross-over stunts. The universe must have been listening, as a few minutes later I ended up with this shot...