Yet again I’ve managed to prove that maybe the discipline of blogging isn’t for me by failing to post for a week. Sorry loyal readers (all three of you). Maybe the answer is to buy a laptop of my own, as it appears that in a contest between Jo and me for our current laptop (she’ll say her laptop), I always lose, usually by dint of waking up later than her and going to bed earlier than her. Just don’t have the tenacity, it would appear.

Maybe getting a pet would help. I’d like to be a Friday dog blogger. Or, at a pinch a Friday cat blogger. That would give you a guaranteed Friday post. Unfortunately, property prices and landlords being what they are, I can’t. So I’m always pleased to see photos of other people’s pets up as Friday fillers. And now, in a prime example of blogs creating topics to be blogged about, and the MSM (that’s American for “mainstream media”, but I don’t think it means the Guardian) eventually deciding to look like it gets this brave new world, the New York Times is talking about cat blogging and why cats are more popular on the internet than dogs. I can’t currently remember my NYT password to look at it again, but it was worth a read the first time.

Amanda, as usual, gets to the heart of it:

Why are cats and not dogs the major pets of the internet? Because cats are inside animals and it’s a lot easier to get a decent cat shot than a dog shot. … But dogs aren’t as easy to photograph. The very thing that makes dogs great pets–they love you more than life itself–makes it really hard to catch them doing something cute or funny with the camera. Why? Because when you point your camera at the average dog, they get so excited that you’re looking at them, they quit doing whatever they are doing to come over to you to say hi.

So, in lieu of me having anything interesting to say to you, or indeed me having a dog or a cat to photoblog, here’s a Sunday hamster blog. She’s called Honey, by dint of being honey-coloured, and is, in fact, an illegal immigrant, as she lives in a land (our flat) where such four-legged creatures are prohibited. Don’t worry, she’s not claiming benefits and is, in fact, existing on mine and Jo’s charity, which runs to two palatial cages and an unending supply of chocolate (yoghurt) drops. I don’t think we’ll be seeing her on the front page of the Daily Express any time soon, though her family have featured, famously, in the Sun:

So here she is, and yes, those are my hands and a bit of my chin!