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Isle of Man Beach Holiday Cottage golf nearby
Cottage | 2 bedrooms | sleeps 4
|Key Info
Ben My Chree Self Catering Beach Holiday Cottage is centred on the promenade in the historic seaside city and fishing port of Peel in the Isle of Man, and offers spectacular panoramic views over the Irish Sea to the Scottish and Irish coastlines. Seals, and basking sharks can be seen swimming and gannets diving, right outside the cottage, which is completely unique to Ben My Chree Beach Holiday Cottage.
The sound of the sea can be heard from the garden at the rear of the cottage, where there is a magical mural completely surrounding the patio, painted by a local artist, to reflect the view at the front.
This original Manx fisherman's cottage has free Wi Fi. Downstairs comprises a large living room with separate dining area and fully fitted kitchen opening onto a rear patio area where there is a hand-painted mural of the view from the front of the cottage, painted by a local artist, Barbara Barker..
All are welcome, whether walkers, cyclists, motor cyclists, golfers all those visiting to see the rally cars and the many special boat weekends and carnivals in Peel Sunset City. Close to Douglas where the original Victorian transport can be enjoyed; Mountain railways, electric and horse trams, steam trains. Close to
This comfortable cottage is easily accessible from the airport and sea terminal, either by bus or taxi. Very central for exploring the whole island! Regular bus services to and from Peel reach Ramsey & Douglas for the Victorian electric trams to the mountain; Kirk Michael, Castletown, Port Erin, Port St Mary, The Sound and Calf of Man etc.
The cottage is fully equipped with 42 inch plasma colour television and DVD player. Bed linen and towels are provided (please bring your own beach towels & bath sheets). A washing machine is provided. There is gas central heating with a combi boiler for instant hot water. Sorry, pets are not allowed and the cottage is non-smoking.
No6 Strand Street Beach Cottage is another Original Manx Fisherman's Cottage in the conservation area of Old Peel just a few steps from the promenade and superb sandy beach. The lovely garden area is a South facing sun trap where the splendid sunsets can be seen. This might be offered if Ben-My-Chree Beach Holiday Cottage is unavailable for the dates you require. Please see the photos with descriptions to clarify.
|Sleeps up to 4, 2 bedrooms
|Nearest beach
|Will consider
|Corporate bookings, Long term lets (over 1 month), Short breaks (1-4 days)
|Car not necessary
|Nearest travel links
|Nearest airport: Ronaldsway, Isle of Man 15 km
|Family friendly
|Suitable for children over 5
|No pets allowed, No smoking at this property
Features and Facilities
|Internet access, DVD player, Boat available, Sea view
|Central heating, TV, Satellite TV, Wi-Fi available
|Kettle, Toaster, Iron, Hair dryer
|Clothes dryer, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine
|2 bedrooms, 1 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms
|Single beds (2), Double beds (1), Cots (1), Dining seats for 4, Lounge seats for 4
|Linen provided, Towels provided
|Balcony or terrace, Private garden, BBQ, Bicycles available
|Further details indoors
Special attention is given to the "Welcome Pack", which includes local Manx produce, chocolates, and wine.
There is a public swimming pool in Peel, which is newly built and it is just a couple of minutes drive from the cottage. Five minutes walk. You can check it out on the Internet to see what courses, like water aerobics, that they have.
|Further details outdoors
Ben My Chree Beach Holiday Cottage is nestled in the centre of the conservation area of the City of Old Peel, with its superb cathedral, places to eat with a good choice of beach and harbour restaurants, lively pubs and bars. Local shops and supermarket are "just round the corner". Bikes can be hired easily, and boats can be taken from the harbour for a trip to fish, or view the wildlife like the sharks, seals and various types of sea birds around Peel.
You can be driven round the island on a motorbike which holds two passengers.
The beautiful new marina, bustling harbour, ancient castle with a wonderful walkway alll the way around the outside ending at the harbour kiosk are close by. There is another sandy beach with rocks upon which the castle is built, and you can walk up the steps cut into the rock to get to the walkway around the castle. This is completely free. You will see kayakers, coast orienteering, and snorkellers operating from this splendid sandy beach.
You can hire boats to take you out to see the wonderful wildlife around the back of the castle, including various sea birds, seals, and basking sharks and it is magical!
The seafront position is perfect for admiring the striking Peel sunsets and is ideally situated as a base to explore this attractive island.
And best of all – the cottage is on the promenade and right by the fantastic sandy beach!
|Further details
We are able to help you book your travel to and from the Island at a price which is competitive if you are staying in our cottages. Remember to ask Jenni on email or call her on (07624) 402316
You can pay the deposit and final balance on Internet banking, or straight into the bank with the help of your banker, paying them a cheque or cash. You might prefer to send a cheque to jenni. Her bank details are on the booking forms which she will send to you if you are interested in booking.
If you are paying from a different part of the world you might prefer to pay through holiday lettings using PayPal as this works out a lot cheaper than the bank charges that would otherwise be applied at both ends. And it is very easy to use. You can pay with your credit card and bankcard, whichever is best for you.
The Isle of Man region
"Britain's Best-kept Secret" PEEL SUNSET CITY. Voted many times with the annual awards Peel is the best tourist town in the Isle of Man! It is the most up to date Heritage city on the island.
PEEL SUNSET CITY (Purt ny Hinshey) - Manx language!
The most Manx town on the Isle of Man. Here fishing thrives with a busy harbour. Loads of places to walk and scenery to enjoy. Lovely beach side town with many local shops of interest.
Peel sits on the west coast of the island, is the only city on the Isle of Man, and has the island's cathedral. It is here visitors will find a variety of interests, including a large ruin castle from 1392. Fishing has a long history in Peel as it once was the island's main fishing port. To this day the harbour can be seen filled with boats of the fishing trade. It is here that Herring is cured to make the famous Manx kippers.
Known as Manx town of the Island, Peel, offers many local shops and brilliant restaurants. There is an old style feel to the place with many narrow streets and small houses near the coast. There are two beautiful sandy beaches and a perfect promenade which is sheltered by hills and St Patrick's Isle. In the evening a stunning sunset can be seen, which is why Peel is also known as the Sunset City.
The picturesque City of Peel offers a variety of walks and is rich in history with a state of the art Heritage Centre and ancient castle. Seal and shark boat trips depart nearby and the cottage is within 5 minutes walk of a selection of unique museums, good restaurants and pubs. There are two lovely sandy beaches, one with a large cave to explore at low tide!
And best of all Ben-My-Chree Beach Holiday Cottage is virtually on the sandy beach!
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6 Sep 2014
"Ideal if you want to be close to the sea which is literally a stone throw away."
I took my elderley mum in May and we explored the island from the comfort of this lovely cottage. It is literally ten steps from the beach and the sea. You can fall asleep listening to the sound of th… More
Lovely to meet you and your treasured mum. So pleased you enjoyed your holiday here together. It would be lovely to see you again if you are both able to come another time. The level walking from the cottage along the promenade and round the harbour is easy, isn't it. Thanks Jenni
15 Jun 2014
""Brilliant all round "accommodation and island ""
Our first time to the I.O.M and did Know really what to expect .But from the time we landed to the time we departed it was all good,our accommodation was of a very high quality and met my expectation… More
Thank you very much for this brilliant review! So pleased you enjoyed the cottage and all Peel Sunset City has to offer. All walks around Peel are excellent for everybody even those struggling a bit because they are completely level along the promenade and around the harbour. And the views from the cottage are indeed wonderful! Hope to see you again next year.
25 May 2014
"clean, comfortable and a perfect location"
It was our first visit to the Isle of Man and were unsure about the standards of accommodation, but we had no need for concern as the cottage was extremely clean, well maintained and ideal as a locati… More
Thank you so much for your kind comments. Much appreciated. Hope to see you again on the Isle of Man. There is always so much more to see with the unique Victorian tram systems, Silverdale with its unique Victorian waterwheel operating the roundabout, and the many sizes and types of Victorian steam trains! So much more for you to come and explore next time. Thanks Jenni :-) :-)
4 May 2014
"Excellent cottage in glorious location"
I visited this cottage with my parents who had travelled to Peel the previous year but due to abnormal weather decided to come again with me as a guestThe cottage is in a perfect location with the sea… More
Thank you very much for taking the time to write this review. Lovely to see you all the second time round as a family with your lovely daughter. Hope to see you again soon. Thanks Jenni:-)
18 Apr 2014
"A very special cottage in a lovely location"
The cottage was well-equipped and in a fantastic location right opposite the beach. The 'extras' in the welcome pack (milk and a pound of butter, as well as the wine and chocolates) and litt… More
Thank you very much for your review. Wine always seems to be welcome after the journey over to the island! Great to have you!
19 Mar 2014
"Lovely location and Cottage"
What a stunning place! We will definitely be back.The owner was so helpful, nothing was too much trouble and had thought of everything. We particularly enjoyed the welcome pack which was full of Manx … More
Thank you for your review. Pleased you enjoyed the Manx goodies! The splendid sunsets and sandy beach are a big bonus being right outside the cottage. Looking forward to having your lovely family again. Jenni and Bob
14 Oct 2013
"A true home from home"
Our first visit to the Isle of Man, so our research was based substantially on various websites. As it happens, our choice of Peel, and specifically Ben-my-Chree cottage, could not have been better. S… More
Thank you very much for this kind and accurate review. I am so pleased you enjoyed the location of the cottage on the sea front and that your research took you to Peel, and to my cottage.
15 Oct 2012
"Perfect cottage in ideal setting."
Stayed for a week in Ben-my Chree cottage and could not have found anywhere better for a base to explore from. The cottage is very well equipped and comfortable. On arrival a welcome pack including wi… More
Pleased you enjoyed the welcome pack with the wine to revive you after your trip to the Island! Peel has won again the BEST TOWN ON THE ISLAND AWARD from the Tourist Board from recommendations like yours. Thank you very much for taking the time to write this lovely review.
14 Oct 2012
"beautiful location and cottage"
Had a lovely stay in cottage right on sea front perfect view to wake up too . Cottage was well equipped and shops and restaurants/cafes close by too couldn't ask for better location . The owner… More
Thank you, it really is a wonderful place to stay with those views over the Scottish and Irish hills, and thank you for your kind comments.
15 Jun 2012
"Ben My Chree Beautiful Cottage Perfect Position"
We have stayed here for the last two years, having previously stayed in several cottages in the area, this is easily the best,. Perfect position facing the beach and close to the town, the cottage is beautifully furnished and Jenni and Bob who live next door are very friendly and helpful. We have wonderful memories of going to sleep to the sound of the waves and drawing back the curtains in the morning to look out over the bay from our bed. We have already booked for next year.
Thank you very much for this - It's good to be 'simply the best!' - and we, along with the seals, basking sharks, and gannets across from the cottage, and are looking forward to you both staying again next year.
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Category archive: Cats and kittens
Every so often I toy with the idea of dumping my Feline Friday habit. But what am I supposed to do with a headline that reads FBI's most wanted cybercriminal used his cat's name as a password? Just ignore it? Hardly.
And now that I am already doing a cat posting with a hi-tech vibe about it, how about What robots can learn from cats. One of the things robots can learn from cats, it would seem, is how to land on their feet without doing themselves damage. My favourite bit of this report is where some computer genius says:
"It's not the fall that kills you. It's the sudden stop at the end."
How very true.
More hi-tech plus cats news: Buy your cat a robot: Mousr acts like real prey.
But as the tsunami of cattery on the www roars out across the planet threatening to drown everyone in feline freak facts, the backlash is getting underway. Can a wave cause a backlash? It can now. What research says about cats: they're selfish, unfeeling, environmentally harmful creatures. They don't love you, they slaughter endangered bird species, and they spread parasites that do your head in.
Finally, here are a couple of pictures I took last Sunday, in a Portobello Road coffee cafe:
On the left there, Perry de Havilland (Samizdata supremo) shows me a cat picture on his mobile, and on the right, on Michael J's mobile, no cat connection, but far too good a headline to ignore.
People drone on about how our new toys have replaced real socialising. But here we observe them spicing up real socialising, by giving us something to chuckle about, while sitting right next to each other.
Also mentioned during our little bit of face-to-face socialising was this epoch-nailing scene.
Yesterday I took this photo, in the remainder shop on the other side of the intersection from the Old Vic. I thought I was photoing that book about procrastination. My immediate thought was that I should buy it, read its contents carefully and apply those lessons straight away to my hitherto hideously postponed life. But then I thought: I'll get it later.
But look on the right there. A cat book. I didn't even see that when I took the photo. They're everywhere, I tell you.
And as if determined to prove my point, today is also a Feline Friday at the Daily Mirror:
I'm talking about the front page on the right. The story, of which I can make neither head nor tail, can be read here.
The catification of the mainstream media continues. Make way tasered cannibals. Flesh eating zombies, your days dominating the front pages are also numbered.
First, what's going on in this picture? What's weird about it? How did I contrive the weirdness?:
Hint: One of the categories for this posting is "Computer graphics". Another hint: I like reflections.
Second, what's the Feline Friday connection in this photo, taken earlier this week outside the Tower of London?
Hint: There is also a clue to this one in the categories list.
If nobody else supplies the answers, I will! Only by refusing to read these answers will you be able to escape them.
The lion statues in Tragalgar Square are famous, and they deserve to be. But there is another lion statue in London that I am also fond of, namely the one on the far side of Westminster Bridge from the Houses of Parliament. I like, when I walk along beside the river next to St Thomas' Hospital, to photo it lined up with the Wheel.
Here is how it looked, on the day I also took these photos, and these, and these:
I really liked this when I saw it. You wouldn't want a guide lion, but, that's the joke.
And this other guy liked it too:
I couldn't wait for Friday to come round so I could show these snaps to you people. Inconveniently, I took them on a Saturday.
The BBC have been doing cats, in a three part documentary, and the papers are all over it.
It turns out that with us, cats are cats. Then they go outdoors and become lions. They get on better with us than they do with each other. They have evolved to manipulate us into feeding and sheltering them.
With the arrival of the internet, the evolution of cats has entered a new and more intense phase.
LATER: Although guide lions probably wouldn't work, here's a 2012 story about a guide cat, who guides a dog.
SUNDAY: I was back there yesterday, and that bit of yellow writing wasn't there when I first photoed this guide dog lion:
And they have also sorted out that strap around the lion's front.
More about what is going on here, here.
Yes, dezeen (Dezeen?) continues to be a favourite wwwspot for me. Here are some recent dezeen postings that got my attention, for this or that reason.
First, news that there will be a viewing platform on top of the Walkie Talkie:
The Walkie Talkie Skygarden has yet to open and will, I'm sure, come with a catchier name. But already it is in obvious competition with the Shard – pricey versus free, ascetic steel and glass versus sylvan repose, supreme height versus not being able to see the Walkie Talkie. ...
Very droll. The original was about how you couldn't see the National Theatre from the National Theatre. But me, I am warming to the Walkie Talkie, and I don't just mean I'm standing under it and being fried. I especially like how it looks from a distance. The point being: it looks like the Walkie Talkie. Not just some anonymous rectangular London lump, no, that particular Big Thing. Yes it is not properly beautiful. But neither is London. Besides which, anything that just might compete down the price of going to the top of the Shard has my vote. I'll definitely make my way up there, as soon as they'll let me
Next up, isn't fun when someone hitherto impeccably cool suddenly turns into Grumpy Old Man:
Speaking to Dezeen, the 85-year-old English designer said tech products like the iPhone and Apple Watch were turning people into zombies, adding: "I've got a certain cynicism of Apple and their motives. It's a bit of a monster."
"It's a game they're playing and it's an absolutely straightforward, commercial, ruthless game, and it's dressed up nicely because they've got some talented people in their employ," he said.
Grange, who was knighted in 2013 for services to design, believes that the tech giant has successfully turned Modernism into "good commerce", using aesthetics to dress up a self-perpetuating product cycle.
"There are probably few companies around now that absolutely answer the prospect that Modernism is good commerce," he said. ...
Modernism is good commerce? Can't have that.
… "They've been so bloody ruthless that you almost get no choice in the matter."
"Almost" there means "not". (See also: essentially, basically, fundamentally, etc. etc. etc.) Because actually, you get plenty of choice about whether to buy Apple stuff or not. Apart from one rather nice keyboard, I never have.
People always talk about the behemoths of capitalism like this, just as they are starting their long slide down into moderate size and moderate success, into business as usual. How do I know Apple is now at the top of that slide? Easy, they are building a custom-designed headquarters. It absolutely yells: from now on, all Apple-persons will talk to each other and keep everyone else out. And what they will be talking about, to an appalling degree, will be their own living arrangements inside this huge circular corporate burial chamber. They're doomed, I tell you, doomed. Someone tell Sir Grumpy (above) that he can relax.
Next: what a driverless car might look like. Not. But, it looks very pretty. The basic point, that driverless cars will in the longer run utterly transform the look of the outdoors is, I think, a very good one. Maybe that is how some of them will look.
I really do not like the way this floating bikeway along the River Thames looks, in the pictures there. At the very least, I say, find a way to avoid having those obtrusive shapes above the level of the track, which makes it look like an infinitely extended item of tasteless garden furniture. I get it, that crap is there to enable it to float up and down on the tide. Well, find another way to do that.
Next, some excellent photos of the High Line, in New York. I especially like the distant aerial view of it curving its way over the Rail Yards, with the spontaneous architectural order of Manhattan's towers in the background.
I do like this rectangular block of a house, but with one end lifted up. Usually the rectangular block houses featured at dezeen are impeccably, terminally tedious. But this one, I like. Apart from the fact that whenever the damn architect called round, you'd have to tidy up all your domestic crap all over everywhere, and turn the place back into the dreary corporate office it resembles in the photos. What is it with architects not wanting homes to look, inside, like homes, but instead like some kind of dystopian hell with nothing in it besides a wooden floor?
Here are some impeccably, terminally tedious rectangular type houses, in Japan. To me, by far, by several hundred miles, the most interesting thing about these photos of them is the amazing amount of electrical crap in the sky over the street outside. If I was photoing in Japan, I would be all over that. More Japanese sky clutter here, in photos of another impeccably, terminally tedious block house with an interior that also looked like a corporate office reception area when the photos were taken.
Google drones. Spooky.
A weird footbridge in Paddington.
Parisian blocks become wavey.
Finally what with this being Friday, some black cats with bronze bollocks. I kid you not.
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I only found out about the wonder-gizmo below with its 65x zoom (scroll down a bit there) because I had gone looking for cats stuff.
A fun bit of news on the cats front today illustrates how seriously the oh-so-serious Guardian now takes the whole cats thing, along with the rest of the media after a decade and more of cattery on the internet.
A cat-blogger lady called Jackie Smith has done a book of cat pictures, called Cat Walk:
I don't think Cat Walk is book about cats. It's about learning to see beauty within arms reach. It's about hunting for words like a mouse hunts for cats. It's about walking, but not really covering distance. The same paths are travelled, but each time the light, the season, the thoughts inside make it different. It does have something to do with the character of cats, but also to do with writing, looking, seeing, being in a place.
This man should be told.
My favourite bit is where she says "It's about hunting for words like a mouse hunts for cats". Because it's not enough to hunt down the right words. You have then to arrange them in the right order. I mean, a mouse hunting for cats? That's some mouse you got there lady.
The Guru was finally able to deliver God/Godot this evening, but he only just finished, so time only for a quota cat, photoed by me in Tate Ancient yesterday:
More about that picture here. It's by David Hockney.
I didn't know that you are allowed to take photos in the Tate, but I did so with increasing confidence. There were official looking people well able to intervene and stop me, if they had wanted to. But, they didn't. Interesting. Was that always the rule, or is it only recent, in response to an irresistible tidal wave of students taking notes with their iPhones?
Last night, at that birthday party I attended, I was asked all the usual questions about what I was doing. Which is not a lot just now, what with my waiting for Godot problem.
Inevitably, in some of these cross-examinations, this blog came up, with me saying that I write here about whatever I feel like writing about, with very little thought for the interests of my readers. Cats on Fridays, general trivia, etc. I do Big Issues at Samizdata and trivia here. Blah blah.
However, an American lady friend, whom I had not met in quite a while and whom I was very pleased to meet again, told me that she quite liked my trivia stuff, and that she even read my postings about cricket (this being the most recent one). I thought that only I and Michael Jennings and Darren the Surrey Member were at all interested in those. It seems not.
I'm guessing that this interest on her part is partly actual interest, but also partly that a principle is at stake here. Which is: that the trivia that other people are interested in, but not you, is not actually an entirely trivial matter. Life is not only Big Issues. It is the small pleasures that give colour and texture and individuality to life. Watever matters, to someone, matters. Your opinion about what the Big Issues are should not be allowed to drive a tank or a government bureaucracy over my trivial pleasures.
So, her reading about the trivial pleasures of others is her asserting this Big Issue to herself, as well as maybe learning something about other little parts of the world, like the world of cricket (actually quite big of course, as I daresay are the worlds of embroidery and gardening and croquet and rap music and all the other little things in life that I don't personally care about, other than to believe that tanks or government bureaucracies should not be driven over them).
Me being me, my way of asserting the importance of trivia, in general, to people, in general, is me writing about the trivia that interests me.
Her way of asserting the importance of trivia to people generally is her reading about the trivia that others write about. But we are both making the same point.
I don't want to say that I have entirely described why my American lady friend likes to read what I write about cricket. I merely speculate that the above speculations might be a quite small part of why she does this.
(She, like me, probably also thinks that thinking about trivia can often lead to interesting angles on Big Issues, of the sort that merely looking straight at the Big Issues might cause you to miss. Pointless fun and truly original insight are often delightfully close neighbours, I think. But that's a tangent for another time, hence this paragraph being in brackets.)
Spent the whole day fretting about not enough people coming to my Last Friday of the Month meeting this evening. Richard Carey would, I knew, be fine, but would the number of listeners be insultingly small? Happily, two people showed up who hadn't emailed that they were coming, and the room was, if not full, at least not embarrassingly empty.
Better yet, I also fixed my speaker for next month, which I had also been fretting about. Priya Dutta, who attended this evening, will be speaking about Education, libertarianism and similar things. The Gove reforms, the various attempts to set up cheap new free enterprise schools of various sorts, that kind of thing. She is a teacher, so this is bound to be good. I'll say more as I learn more.
Too tired to expand on what Richard said (about English Republicanism and its influence in the American colonies and later the USA), other than that in the brackets is what it was about and that it was very interesting. But since this is Friday, here is news of Cats on Kickstarters, and of Catstarter , which I think is a book, or maybe a blog. Also cat related: Ceiling Netanyahu is watching you tunnel.
Yes, I've been in France, and now I'm back. Have been for several days actually, but I spent my recent blogging time doing this, which is a photo-decorated ramble on various things I saw in France, or thought I did, for Samizdata.
I really want to get back into the swim of things over there, after a recent dry spell, and was accordingly determined to finish that ramble before I resumed rambling here.
Since this is Friday, here are some French cats.
Cat number one stands outside Vannes town hall:
Cat number two is impressively perched on an impressively high ledge, somewhere or other. Cat number three, the cat of the friends I was staying with, is shown here, not being very impressed with cat number two:
This photo was taken by Tony, to whom thanks, and to whom thanks also for emailing it to me.
Here, on the other hand are two further photos that I did take of cat number three:
No, I don't know why his right ear is green on the inside. I only noticed this when I got home.
His name is Caesar (sp?), and he actually does answer to that name. It's not tone of voice, it's the name, because when I said this to him for the first time, he immediately looked up to see what I had in mind.
There is another cat, Basil, who drops by at the home of Tony et famille from time to time, but he is more shy. He was otherwise engaged, on my last day there which was when I finally decided I wanted to photo the two cats. Caesar showed up, but not Basil. Another time, maybe.
Caesar is now very old, and I may never meet with him again. We got on well.
Trawling through the archives this evening, I came across this fine feline:
Photoed by me, in Battersea, about two months ago.
In other cat news, pet cats in Vietnam are being stolen and sold to restaurants. And not because the restaurants want cats for their customers to mingle with. Oh no. This is Vietnam, not Paris.
Back here in evil Britain, hundreds of black cats are being abandoned by their owners because, according to the Daily Mail, these black cats don't look good in SELFIES (their capital letters):
Today the RSPCA announced a rise in the number of black cats being abandoned by their owners, and attributed it to them not photographing well.
A spokesman for the animal welfare charity said that more than 70 per cent of the 1,000 cats in its care were black, and blamed the trend for people taking pictures of themselves with their phones.
He said: 'There are a number of reasons for us having so many black cats, including the fact that black animals tend not to photograph as well as other cats with more distinctive markings.
Other cats are also easier to tell apart, he said.
The spokesman added: 'There is a national problem with rehoming cats of this colour.
'We really are puzzled as to why this still happens but we would urge people to never judge a cat by its colour and look at its personality instead.'
This story is everywhere. I sense hostility towards digital photography, and in particular towards the evil practice of taking photos of yourself, an evil practice which now has its own word.
However, a selfie is when you take a photo of yourself. Owners are including themselves in their cat photos on incidentally. Often only the cat is in the picture. These photos are not being taken by cats, so they are not selfies.
Cats don't take photos of themselves. If they had been caught doing this, on video for instance, I would definitely have learned about it and passed the news on to you people. All that is actually going on here is that black cat owners are finding it hard to photo their black cats and are consequently abandoning their black cats, and obtaining other cats, more like the one in my picture above, that are easier to photo. That's a wicked enough story as it is, without misreporting it and put your mistake in capital letters. Socks, Daily Mail. Pull yours up.
Next up, an Italian shooting champion is on trial for using live cats as target practice. I sense hostility towards shooting champions, but it may just be towards Italians.
Finally, Cats is being revived, in the Millenium Centre, Cardiff:
The highlight of the evening was the singing which included lots of harmonies ...
Which is what you want. What with Cats being a musical show, consisting mostly of people dressed as cats, singing, and trying to be harmonious about it.
Rachel Howells continues:
Cats is at the Wales Millennium Centre until Saturday 9th August and includes many matinee showings so you have no excuses not to miss it.
Once again, we see the mainstream media getting their facts in a twist, this time because of faulty grammar. No excuses not to miss it? It would appear that, at least when it comes to their online content, the writing and/or editing at the South Wales Argus has gone to the dogs.
My latest last Friday of the month meeting was this evening. Thank you Simon Gibbs, and all else who attended. Excellent talk and an excellent evening.
But I spent all day fretting about the meeting instead of doing anything for here, and now that it's over I don't want to say something stupid about the meeting. I'd rather think about that some more and talk sense about it.
So here, instead of proper blogging, are some cat links that I like. Google "cats" and of course you get a ton of stuff. These few were my favourites.
Cats in the movies.
Florida Man Holds Gun to Cat's Head and Posts Picture to Facebook. The www is not amused.
Monkeys fear big cats less, eat more, with humans around.
Feisty feline saves boy from bullies. But, there is no video, so not as good as this.
And for those who share my interest in American politics, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) accused Senate Democrats of meowing like kitty cats and enabling President Barack Obama to enact lawless executive actions like no other president before him. I wouldn't choose cats are a metaphor for lack of independence.
And see also the cat wheel linked to by David Thompson.
BrianMicklethwaitDotCom Feline Friday heaven, in other words:
Click to get it twice the size. Go here to see where I found it. Colossal again.
The internet is altering the balance of power between Art as Silly Complaints About The Bourgeoisie and Art as Fun For Everyone. In a good way.
When I say "back", what I mean is, looking up its arse, at its bollocks:
Here is the same beast from its better side, together with some history, such as why it's called the Coade Lion.
It's one of my favourite London statues, especially when it lines itself up with the Wheel.
And here is something else feline, spotted in the place where all vehicles of interest to me seem to be spotted these days, Lower Marsh:
It's the Bobcat E50, as you can see in my photo if you look carefully enough.
So, what is a "bobcat"? I saw a TV documentary recently about honey badgers, and they are nothing to do with regular badgers. So, is a bobcat a regular cat nearly, or a regular cat not at all? Does it merely look or behave somewhat like a cat, to some rather unobservant people? It turns out bobcats are cats. Wikipedia has a picture of what it describes as "bobcat kittens" (which ought surely to be: bobkittens). They look exactly like regular cat kittens.
Wikipedia is reasonably reliable on non-politically-controversial topics, but I was rather expecting the bobcat wikipedia entry to have a clutch of propaganda in it about how bobcats are an endangered species and how this is all the fault of people, capitalism, etc.. But actually the bobcat news here, according to Wikipedia, is quite good:
Although bobcats have been hunted extensively by humans, both for sport and fur, their population has proven resilient though declining in some areas.
See also, this strange guy. I like the Police Academy movies, in which he appears, despite him rather than to any degree because of him. The only thing I do like about him is that he omits the terminal e from his surname, thereby making it that tiny bit easier for me to make people spell my surname right.
Incoming from 6k, alerting me to a New Statesman piece by Ed Smith, about how, after a small digger has dug out a deep hole under a posh London house to make the house bigger, it makes more sense to leave the digger in the hole than go to the bother of extricating it. Makes sense. What a great story.
So, many of the squares of the capital's super-prime real estate, from Belgravia and Chelsea to Mayfair and Notting Hill, have been reconfigured house by house. Given that London's strict planning rules restrict building upwards, digging downwards has been the solution for owners who want to expand their property's square-footage.
So, enter the digger, and dig dig dig. But then:
The difficulty is in getting the digger out again. To construct a no-expense-spared new basement, the digger has to go so deep into the London earth that it is unable to drive out again. What could be done?
Initially, the developers would often use a large crane to scoop up the digger, which was by now nestled almost out of sight at the bottom of a deep hole. Then they began to calculate the cost-benefit equation of this procedure. First, a crane would have to be hired; second, the entire street would need to be closed for a day while the crane was manoeuvred into place. Both of these stages were very expensive, not to mention unpopular among the distinguished local residents.
A new solution emerged: simply bury the digger in its own hole. Given the exceptional profits of London property development, why bother with the expense and hassle of retrieving a used digger – worth only £5,000 or £6,000 – from the back of a house that would soon be sold for several million? The time and money expended on rescuing a digger were better spent moving on to the next big deal.
Today being a Friday, I was delighted to learn that there is a feline aspect to this, in the form of Ed Smith's final speculations. This man is clearly learning fast how to get noticed on the Internet!
In centuries to come, says Smith:
… they will surely decipher a correlation between London's richest corners and the presence of these buried diggers. The atrium of the British Museum, around 5000AD, will feature a digger prominently as the central icon of elite, 21st-century living.
What will the explanatory caption say? "Situated immediately adjacent to the heated underground swimming pool and cinema at the back of the house, no superior London address was complete without one of these highly desirable icons, sometimes nicknamed 'the Compact Cat'. This metallic icon was a special sacrificial gesture, a symbol of deep thanks to the most discussed, revered and pre-eminent god of the age, worshipped around the world: London Property."
Ed Smith is a former first class (and occasional test) cricketer, and now occasional cricket commentator. As well as a writer of books. Writing this posting also got me ordering a copy of his latest.


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I read in The Free Lance-Star on July 8 that at least 82 people were shot in Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend.
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It is time to talk about and address why people are violent and not just talk about taking away the tools.
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Anthony Bradley looks at the inspiring life story of Thomas L. Jennings (1791–1856) who was granted a patent, the first for an African American, for developing a process that led to modern-day dry cleaning. "Do we not want new stories like this in the United States and around the world?" asks Bradley. "Do we not want people to be free to use their creativity to meet marketplace needs in their communities and freely use their wealth creation to contribute to civil society as they see fit?" The full text of his essay follows. Subscribe to the free, weekly Acton News & Commentary and other publications here.
Anthony Bradley looks at the inspiring life story of Thomas L. Jennings (1791–1856) who was granted a patent, the first for an African American, for developing a process that led to modern-day dry cleaning. "Do we not want new stories like this in the United States and around the world?" asks Bradley. "Do we not want people to be free to use their creativity to meet marketplace needs in their communities and freely use their wealth creation to contribute to civil society as they see fit?" The full text of his essay follows. Subscribe to the free, weekly Acton News & Commentary and other publications here.
In a lengthy interview in the Daily Caller, Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg picks up many of the themes in his terrific new book, Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future. Here's an excerpt:
Daily Caller: In what ways do you think the U.S. has become like Europe?
Samuel Gregg: If you think about the criteria I just identified, it's obvious that parts of America — states like California, Illinois, and New York — have more-or-less become European. Likewise, the fact that most federal government expenditures are overwhelmingly on welfare programs replicates the situation prevailing throughout Western Europe. Then there is the unwillingness on the part of many Americans to accept that we cannot go on this way. It is one thing to have problems. But it's quite another to refuse to acknowledge them.
Daily Caller: What's so bad about becoming like Europe? It's not that bad of a place. It's not like becoming like North Korea, right?
Samuel Gregg: I lived and studied in Europe for several years. So I can report that there is much to like! But even leaving aside many European nations' apparent willingness to settle for long-term economic stagnation, I would argue that it's becoming harder and harder to be a free person in Europe. By that, I don't mean a re-emergence of the type of socialist regimes that controlled half of Europe for 50 years. Rather I have in mind two things. (more…)
Daly contends, "The horrors of Bolshevik governance stemmed directly from their repudiation of the precious fruits of Western political thought." It is a classic example of the tendency of some to promote cheap moralisms while ignoring the empirical realities of any given context, what then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger termed in 1985, "the antithesis of morality." In addition to fostering mass suspicion, starvation, and ultimately a despotic police state in Russia, the Bolsheviks also have the blood of literally millions on their hands, Orthodox Christians as well many Roman Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and others—the rotten fruit of their noble quest for the common good. (more…)
National Review Online asked Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg to weigh in on President Barack Obama's second term inaugural address.
Gregg points to "our president's worldview that the government is the primary way in which we address our common problems and realize our responsibilities and obligations to each other as citizens and as human beings." He wonders if it has occurred to Obama that "many such responsibilities and obligations might be realized outside the realm of politics … "
Gregg goes on to suggest, for the presidential reading list, Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America and Jacques Maritain's writings on civil society in the United States.
Read "Why Barack Obama Needs to Read Alexis de Tocqueville" by Samuel Gregg on NRO.
While you're at it, pick up a copy of Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future (Encounter Books, January 2013).
In Britain, a new zeitgeist is capturing business people, academics and political players from both the Left and Right, says the BBC's Matthew Taylor:
Catholic Social Teaching is a doctrine well-suited to today's quest for more ethical businesses, a less overbearing state and a more vibrant and cohesive civil society.
Now, as in 1891, many fear we will not be able to adapt to profound change without dangerous social upheaval. It may not provide easy or even practical answers right now, though it does, at least, seem to be grappling with the right questions.
And for those of us tired of the ritual adversarialism and technocratic wrangling on show in Westminster, there is something rather inspiring about the response of a shrewd operator like Jon Cruddas.
When I ask him whether the ethical foundations of Catholic Social Teaching imply a different way of thinking about politics, he says: "Yes, I do and I see them in different parties. It's going to be uncomfortable, difficult, but it means that we have to focus in on almost transcending the formal architecture of politics in the national good."
Jordan Ballor and Hunter Baker recently argued that Catholic Social teaching could be a worthy model for engagement here in America too:
It is clear that what President Barack Obama has achieved is historic: Being re-elected when not a single one of his major initiatives has enjoyed broad popular support.
What is also clear is that the moral and spiritual demographics of the United States have changed considerably. If Gov. Mitt Romney, an honorable man of moderate political preferences and conservative personal convictions, cannot attract a winning coalition we are in deep trouble. His loss illustrates the change that has occurred in the nation and the challenges it portends. Politics is about addition and Gov. Romney surely tried to run an "additional" campaign and I can think of no Republican who was more likely to accomplish what was necessary for a center-right victory.
Last night's election illustrates that Americans have become a people more dependent on the government. The country will continue to trend culturally and politically to the left. This means that conservative causes that take their impetus from the truths and moral rationality offered by the Judeo-Christian political and philosophical tradition will continue to be marginalized, the Church's liberty restricted, and the cultural, moral, political and spiritual leftism, hedonism, and materialism, with its attendant anomie and nihilism, will continue the long march through all of our cultural and governmental institutions. (more…)
Last night, I went to see the newest "Batman" movie with my fellow Acton interns. I thought it was a great movie, and I recommend seeing it and reading Jordan Ballor's review of it. I also want to echo some of the themes that Jordan discussed in his piece.
After the movie was done, it turned out that the people who had parked behind me were in need of a jump for their car. I didn't know these people, but I did see that they needed help. And so I did something that people obsessed with government or with markets should think is impossible: I gave them a jump. No one forced me to do it. No one paid me to do it. I just did it, because it was the right thing to do.
The episode sort of represented many of the things that have been annoying me recently about my fellow libertarians (there may also be some guilty conservatives). I think they put far too much emphasis on having a market based solution to nearly every social problem. Yet giving someone a jump seems to defy traditional money-chasing impulses. There simply are things which we do not rely on a market to provide. (more…)
Don't blame the culture wars for the recent debates about contraception, says Phillip W. De Vous in this week's Acton Commentary (published Apr. 4), the real culprit is statism. The full text of his essay follows. Subscribe to the free, weekly Acton News & Commentary and other publications here.
The Think Tanks and Civil Society Program at the University of Pennsylvania this morning released its "2011 Global Go To Think Tanks Rankings" and associated trends analysis. The full report will be posted here soon.
The Acton Institute was ranked No. 12 globally on the "Top Thirty Social Policy Think Tanks" (the same ranking as in the 2010 survey) and No. 39 on the "Top Fifty Think Tanks in the United States" ranking (up eight places).
James McGann, the director of the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, said the genesis of the rankings project "developed from a series of requests from donors and journalists to produce national, regional, and international lists of the preeminent think tanks. Our ongoing efforts with respect to the rankings are now defined by our drive to understand the role of think tanks in governments and civil societies globally, so that we can help to improve their capacity and performance."
McGann said that the rankings process "relies on a shared definition of public policy research, analysis, and engagement organizations, a detailed set of selection criteria, and an increasingly open and transparent nomination and selection process. Particularly with this year's improvements, we believe this process to have tremendous utility for think tanks, policymakers, donors, and the public. We are especially pleased with the increased participation from developing and BRICS countries, which allows us to bring special attention to the important work they are doing, often under a set of circumstances with a set of obstacles all their own."
The BRIC countries include Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The number of think tanks operating out of these five countries increased by more than 100 percent between 2008 and 2011, from 419 to 985 think tanks, according to the report. China and India have the second and third most think tanks, respectively. In total, 425 think tanks are listed as based in China. The United States leads with 1,815.
Congratulations to the Washington-based Brookings Institution for earning the distinction of "Top Think Tank in the World" for 2011.
From Penn:
Launched in 2006, Penn's "Global 'Go-To Think Tank' Rankings" annual report has become an authoritative source for the top public policy research institutes in the world. James G. McGann, assistant director of Penn's International Relations Program, directs the Think Tanks and Civil Society Program at Penn. This year the report focuses on the rise of the G20 countries and the role of think tanks in the Arab Spring and other global trends.
This year's ranking report is based on a 2011 worldwide survey of more than 1,500 policy makers, scholars, journalists, current and former think-tank executives, public and private donors, intergovernmental agencies and academic institutions. Approximately 5,300 think tanks were nominated for inclusion in 30 category rankings.
About the Think Tanks and Civil Society Program:
As part of the International Relations Program at the University of Pennsylvania, the TTCSP conducts research on the role policy institutes play in governments and civil societies around the world. TTCSP was established in 1989. TTCSP maintains a database and network of over 6500 think tanks in 213 countries. Often referred to as the "think tank's think tank," TTCSP examines the evolving role and character of public policy research organizations. Over the last 25 years, the Program has developed and led a series of global initiatives that have helped bridge the gap between knowledge and policy in critical policy areas such as international peace and security, globalization and governance, international economics, environment, information and society, poverty alleviation, and health. These international collaborative efforts are designed to establish regional and international networks of policy institutes and communities that improve policy making as well as strengthen democratic institutions and civil societies around the world. TTCSP works with leading scholars and practitioners from think tanks and universities in a variety of collaborative efforts and programs and maintains the world's leading research database and directory of think tanks. TTCSP produces the annual Global Go-To Think Tank Index that ranks world's leading think tanks with the help of a panel of over 1500 peer institutions and experts from the print and electronic media, academia, public and private donor institutions and policymakers.
Current events in India have left the country wrestling with an important question: What is civil society and what does it consist of? These are not easy questions to answer as definitions of civil society can greatly vary.
According to a story on the Wall Street Journal's India Real Time section, "…political demonstrators have demanded greater civil society involvement in the governing country…" While many throughout India are trying to define a civil society and who represents it, the Journal cited a definition by Samuel Gregg, research director at the Acton Institute:
Samuel Gregg, … notes that up to around the 18th century, the term "civil society" was used to distinguish the realm of the secular from the realm of the church, but then underwent a shift. India Real Time made a stab at defining the term "civil society" from his work as comprising those "intermediate associations" of society – academic, cultural, religious or charitable – that are separate from the family, and from the institutions of the state and the market. Mr. Gregg calls such associations "little platoons" that draw "people out of their immediate family without subsuming them into the state" and that have "the capacity to assist people to look towards those higher ends of truth, beauty, and the good."
This definition effectively covers charities, non-governmental organizations or NGOs, civic associations like local Residents' Welfare Associations, social movements, traders' associations, social service initiatives, faith-based groups and so on.
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|Dick Butkus, nonprofit settle lawsuit over namesake award
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Dick Butkus sued in Los Angeles federal court in 2007, demanding the Downtown Athletic Club of Orlando relinquish control of the Butkus Award, which it had given out for 23 years and trademarked in 1987. He said the club didn't raise enough money for charity and in April won a summary judgment.
In exchange for returning the trademark to Butkus, the club will be able to use his name in conjunction with other fundraisers. The settlement was reached this week.
``Dick is thrilled,'' Butkus lawyer Robert Helfing said.
Butkus' family will begin presenting the award in January 2009 in Chicago, where he grew up and played eight Pro Bowl seasons for the Bears.
``The point of this whole lawsuit was to use this award to raise charitable funds, and he feels he will be able to do that better in Chicago than down in Florida,'' Helfing said.
Club officials said the cost to defend the lawsuit was no longer justifiable and the money could be better used to serve youth.
``We're glad it's over, but we're sad,'' club president Chip Landon said in a statement. ``You hate to give up when you know you're in the right. But there comes a point when we really had to think about the kids who won the award the past 23 years. They're proud of that. We didn't want to see that go away.''


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Danica Patrick hopes she's found Mr. Right after thousands of left turns
Who needs right-side tires or a splash of gas when you're making a pit stop for love? Danica Patrick is dating fellow NASCAR driver Ricky...
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Who needs right-side tires or a splash of gas when you're making a pit stop for love?
Danica Patrick is dating fellow NASCAR driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr., she announced Friday at Daytona International Speedway.
"Thanks everyone for all of your nice messages," Patrick wrote on her Twitter page, "and the bump-drafting jokes are cracking me up! Let the fun begin."
• At TheOnion.com: "2013 Puppy Bowl teams to be coached by two dogs from same litter."
• At SportsPickle.com: "Ravens release Ray Lewis: 'He has become a distraction.' "
R.B. Hammer
Among the football blue-chippers on Alabama's recruiting list: tailback Altee Tenpenny.
Can't confirm he answers to the nickname of "Nails."
Faux hunting
"Remember when men were men and fake girlfriends weren't?" wrote The Sporting News' David Whitley. "Now media traffics in shock, social media goes wild, and a nation gathers around its flat-screens to gauge whether phone footsie will make a player slide on Mel Kiper Jr.'s Big Board."
Sports quiz
From Janice Hough of LeftCoastSportsBabe.com:
Q: "What are the Los Angeles Clippers without Chris Paul?"
A: "Apparently the Los Angeles Lakers."
Don't touch that dial
Who says the hockey work stoppage is over?
Wrote Gregg Drinnan of the Kamloops (B.C.) Daily News: "I regret to inform the NHL that, as as the commissioner of my home, I have locked out owners and players."
Talko time
• Len Berman of ThatsSports.com, on Atlanta's new-look lineup: "Two thirds of the Braves' outfield will have Uptons — or one Alou shy of a full house."
• Blogger TC Chong, on next year's Super Bowl being played outdoors in New Jersey: "Watch for SB XLVIIIBRRRR."
• RJ Currie of SportsDeke.com, on Ontario curler Glen Howard choosing Alberta rival John Morrison for his TSN Skins team: "Talk about sweeping with the enemy."
No miracle cure
Doctors cleared Lakers center Dwight Howard to play Friday night after finding no further damage to his right shoulder.
Hey, it was either that or try to surgically remove that big chip on it.
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Permia - Duels, set in the fantasy world of Permia, lets you take control of diverse fantasy units ranging from archers and swordsmen to dinosaurs and dragons.
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