Hello kitty clients welcome back to the mewsletter!
Oh boy this update is going to be a mega one! Instead of doing a separate update per month over Summer I’m going to alter this post on the fly as we go! It’s been a crazy June and I’ve been rushed off my paws!
But before we get into the nitty gritty of Summer, We have a June Cat of the Month to pick!
During June I had a rather lengthy booking with a trio of cats called Elvis, Lucy and Mabel, well Mabel was pretty much the only cat that stuck around to see me and in fact she wouldn’t leave my side! She very quickly became besotted with me and she’d follow me everywhere and sit on my lap as we sat in the garden relaxing.
She stole my heart and for that reason she’s this months Cat of the Month! Yay Mabel!
This months theme: St Swithins!
With the coming of July usually brings with it the beginnings of Summer and the scorching weather that comes attached to it. However there is a special day called St Swithins day which threatens to put all that on hold.
St. Swithin’s Day, also called St. Swithun’s Day, (July 15), a day on which, according to folklore, the weather for a subsequent period is dictated. In popular belief, if it rains on St. Swithin’s Day, it will rain for 40 days, but if it is fair, 40 days of fair weather will follow. St. Swithin was bishop of Winchester from 852 to 862. At his request he was buried in the churchyard, where rain and the steps of passersby might fall on his grave. According to legend, after his body was moved inside the cathedral on July 15, 971, a great storm ensued. The first textual evidence for the weather prophecy appears to have come from a 13th- or 14th-century entry in a manuscript at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
St. Swithin’s Day | weather folklore | Britannica
Weather frequently changes around midsummer, and, thus, the tradition that this day influences the weather may stem from earlier, possibly pre-Christian, belief. On the European continent similar beliefs are attached to other saints (e.g., St. Médard, June 8, France).
So let’s hope for fair weather and not mega heatwaves or torrential downpours! It’s also time to swap the profile photos over for a month which will also match the theme! The splashing cat was created in BingAI, an image generator from Microsoft & OpenAI. The banner image was made in LeonadoAI which is another type of Ai powered image generator using Stable Diffusion. If you want to use these images too then you have my paw of blessing!
I use AI generated imagery as an outlet not only for my mind but also to help me make images for Moggy Daycare! Fun fact, the cats in our brand new logo were generated using Midjourney!
2023 Closure Dates
All the latest updates on closure dates for Worcester & Droitwich can be found below via our official closure dates page!
Worcester & Droitwich Availability (Updated 01/07/2023)
Worcester: I will not be taking on new clients at all between June and the start of September due to how busy I already am, if you need an alternative cat sitter in the Worcester area go search for Sparrow & Wagtails on Instagram, I highly recommend Sophie and the fab work she does (she looks after my girls when I’m away!)
Droitwich: Open and looking for new clients! So if you live in the Droitwich area and are looking for a sitter, head over to the contact form and pop us a message and we will see if Tim is able to look after your cat(s)!
July weekly availability breakdown (Worcester)
All weeks are listed commencing on Mondays. Dates show are available to currently registered clients only.
03/07/2023-09/07/2023: No availability
10/07/2023-16/06/2023: Limited slots on 15th & 16th only
17/07/2023-23/07/2023: Slots available
24/07/2023-30/07/2023: Limited slots available
August Availability
Instead of doing a breakdown for August, I’m going to say Highly Limited Availability for bookings due to how busy I am already. If you are registered on my books and haven’t booked for Summer yet…I strongly suggest you do so asap or you’ll risk being turned away and having to try to find someone else (which will be very hard to later you leave it). Any cancellations I get will be posted to my WhatsApp status to ensure only registered clients receive an alert so be sure to save my number down (it’s on my Contact page).
September availability will be covered in a Mewsletter closer to the middle of August 2023.
So if you’re fully booked, what do I do now? I need a sitter for my cat(s)!?
If you are booking for cat sits in Worcester and it’s fully booked, before referring you to another cat sitter we will try and fulfil your booking with Tim our Droitwich sitter. If on that occasion we still cannot fulfil your request we will make some recommendations for you to go to.
Christmas 2023 (updated 01/07/2023)
Christmas week and New Years is VERY limited and I am reserving these slots for regular clients already registered on my books!
If you’re a client who’s already on our books then simply send us a message on WhatsApp or email us with your requests, if you’re reading this and wish to become a new client then please head to our enquiry form where you can put a request in!
As a final thing…THANK YOU so much for being such amazing clients, it’s obvious to say but I honestly wouldn’t be able to do this as my full-time job if it wasn’t for you all coming back to me time and time again! It really does mean a lot to me and I hope to continue seeing your fur babies long into 2023 and beyond!
Purrs and nuzzes
Adam
