I’ve decided to be the Admiral Ashore!

Dear friends,

As you know, for some months now I have been living in Cornwall (U.K) with granny and grandpa and all of my furry cousins. I came here originally with mum, dad, April, Blue and Annabelle when we drove from Italy to Cornwall to stay for a month and prepare to move to our new boat. When the humans told me the plan was to drive back to Italy, pack up everything and then move it all to Spain and the new boat… it sounded like a lot of hard work and I decided I’d rather stay for a while and keep Dexter company on his road to recovery.

Something I wasn’t really expecting happened… I feel in love with my new home! I’m now living on an old farm and although I’m still an indoor cat, I get to take the humans for walks on the lead with Dexter and the dogs. I’d never lived with another cat before and here there are FOUR… five if you include me! I didn’t expect to like it, but now I can’t imagine being away from them. There are also four dogs, who you’ve met before on my blog, and four tortoises. I even have fish TV still because there’s a big aquarium with fancy fish in it! Granny is in the process of building a luxury cattery too in the orchard and I’ve decided it’s for the best if I stay here for the foreseeable future and oversee the planning and building.

I adored Nocturne and my time afloat and part of me really wanted to sail off into the future on Titanium too, but in two months time I will be 48 in cat years, (8 years old for the humans among you) and after spending 44 cat years at sea I feel it’s time to relax and enjoy bossing my humans and canine crew around from ashore! I love my new land-lubber life and all the space I have here to explore and prowl. I wouldn’t have left my humans unless I was absolutely sure that my canine crew were capable of looking after them and I still get to see them regularly (especially mum) when they come and visit.

What about my blog?

Well it’s been a tricky decision deciding what to do with my blog. I know a lot of you follow me because you are cat lovers and a lot of you follow me because you love adventures at sea.

I love all animals and I think that I have trained Annabelle sufficiently to take over reporting on my families adventures at sea. She will post to the blog about what is happening aboard Titanium and once a month or so I will post with updates about what I am doing here in Cornwall with all the rest of the family.

Why Annabelle?

Again, it was a tough decision to choose between April, Blue and Annabelle but in all honesty Annabelle is probably more cat like than I am! (The human’s nickname for me is Puppy!) She is three times lighter than me at 2.2 kg to my 6.5 kg and she is constantly preening and cleaning herself. She is also the most feisty. Even though she is the youngest by a year, she has become the clear boss of the canine pack.

What’s next?

Over the next few weeks Annabelle and I will work together to update and refresh the blog so that everything is clear and we’re excited to get back into blogging regularly. I have missed you all and we’re so excited to be back!

Today is also dad’s birthday so I will end this post by wishing him the happiest of birthdays and wishing you all the happiest of weeks!

Bisous, Bailey