Amerjit Basi

@amerjitbasi.bsky.social

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Into books, politics, the arts, SF, urban space. Civil servant, DfE; former Head of Policy,University of Sheffield.Personal views expressed. Same name on Twitter.

White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and eyes, and down his left leg, lies fully stretched out on a red middle eastern style rug.
Stretched out on the bed white tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and eyes. Trying to air his belly.
Mock lost pet notice, of a 6 month xenomorph, the alien from Alien, called Tigger. With a black line drawing of said Tigger with a red ball in his mouth.
Clipping from The Guardian notes & queries section. Humoursly answering a question about cats being diurnal or nocturnal. The humour is about cats are neither and are motivated instead in terms of proximity to boxes.
Photo of a sign, red with white writing that says "Danger Children Crossing", it's in front of green railings with bushes behind. It's night time.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears lies stretched out on the bed.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and eyes, is laid down on a desk with half his body over a notebook. There is a small pile of books behind his rear end.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears sits near a footstool expectantly, he wants to play.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears lies asleep in a curl smack bang in the centre of the bed near the top. Seemingly leaving no room for me to actually get into the bed and under the duvet.
Another picture of Eddie on the bed, but he is now up higher on the bed, totally in stroking distance. The picture shows him being stroked.
Photo of the tv showing a part of the small bone box, it has a regular circle pattern, of small circles in larger circles and also smaller circles with what looks like a dot in the middle.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears sits at the very far end of the bed, very far away from my hand. He is on a red sarong that is on the bed. There is a periodic table tea towel in the background hanging on the enclosed banister.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears sits on a high shelf above the telly. He's on the bottom shelf of three, so is a little crouched down. He's looking out the window. The shelves have an array of pictures on them. The telly has Star Trek next generation on, so is showing Q and Jean-Luc Picard.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears sleeps on a red and white large checkered cloth, on a dark brown leather armchair. One of his white ears has got lots of dirt on it.
Snowy suburban street with cars parked on both sides, and snow still falling in the lamp light. Some tyre tracks but hardly any. There's also a light on, in the flats on the right hand side, a warm orange glow in the grey and white.
My Christmas tree, it's artificial and very very tinsely, with lots of xmas tree decorations on it.
Picture of Sheffield Cathedral's beautiful skylight stained glass.
Collage with very tinsely tree on left, and top right a little tableau of wooden fir trees, a deer and dinosaurs, bottom right a small wooden xmas tree on a bookcase, with two paper present tags of cats and one of a blackbird.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears sits all over the paper I'm trying to use to make my Christmas cards.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears, looking cute in a semi-curl.
Giant lit up reindeer inside a St Enoch shop.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears sits in a corner looking at a white chest of drawers.
Penfold, hexagonal red postbox with Queen Victoria's flourish style cypher on it.
White tabby with dark tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears sits loaf-style on red middle eastern style rug. Having not thrown up.
A very large Roland sound machine.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears is now being played with by me teasing him with a leaf.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears sits just beside the footstool waiting for me to start playing with him.
Photo of St Michael's church in Coxwold, the tower at Helmsley Castle and a statue of a warrior outside it, a rather stylised depiction of a man with a helm and shield, and long pike, but he also has a firm backside.
Byland Abbey remains including part of the stonework for the rose window, and the tiles that are still there, a very rare sight.
Absolutely enormous spider under a clear plastic tub on a sisal style rug, on its way to be put out in the garden.
Collage clockwise from top left, remains of windows in Easby Abbey, Richmond Castle main tower, remains of Refectory Easby Abbey, at top of main tower Richmond Castle.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back, and tail, and over his forehead and ears lies in a loose curl on the orange and green large check duvet, which also has a red cloth on it. His paws are tucked over each other, as if he has one hand on top of the other.
Bed with a sheet on it still scrunched up, you can see the lump of Eddie, especially his dark tabby patch, hiding in the sheet.
Town centre view from 6th floor, with Town Hall and peace gardens in the middle of the shot and wonderful varied cloud formations.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears lies on a cream duvet looking satisfied. Picture at an angle as taken by me whilst also in the bed, under the duvet. Blank screen of TV behind him.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears lies on newspaper on a red middle eastern style rug playing with a yellow banana catnip toy and at times resting his head on a pink cigar catnip toy.
Rainbow over buildings in Sheffield city centre, mainly over Persistence Works a concrete modern style building, probably called Brutalist in style.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears lies under the duvet with me, face towards me, and his face is very near the camera.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears lies in a loose curl, extremely contentedly on the duvet on the bed. He's facing me as i take the photo with his eyes a peep open. His back feet are enormous as he is part rabbit.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears lies on his side on a cream carpet. He looks like he's quite covered in soot. It's dirt after getting into a fight where presumably he was rolled in the very dry soil in the gardens.
View from Higger Tor showing heather and path in the foreground, fluffy clouds in a mainly blue sky and hills in the distance, including Win Hill.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears lies in a curl on my lap, and his tail is moving about as he dreams.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears lies in a curl on my lap.
George V postbox. Background has barriers in place for the cycling grand prix.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears lies on his side on orange material on bed with one back leg v stretched out, and outside toe stretched away from other toes. Photo is of his back leg.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears lies fully stretched out on a cream carpet. He's tail is shaped a bit like a Swan neck and head and there's a green striped catnip mouse by its tip.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears in a curl on my lap. He has a bit of wet kitchen towel on him and is being fanned by me with a paper fan.
Tabby cat sat outside my living room window looking in. The window frames are a dark brown and you can see a spiky plant and dark wood plant stand and lamp to the right of the cat. All inside.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears lies stretched out in a patch of sun. His back feet are a little awkwardly pressed against a picture frame resting on the cream carpeted floor.
Two pictures, left picture headline "UK MPs vote to proscribe Palestine Action as terrorist group". Right picture headline "Israeli military used 500 pound bomb in strike on Gaza cafe, fragments reveal".
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears now lies in a loose curl on the lap again.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears lies stretched out on a red middle eastern style rug. My bare feet are in the foreground.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears lies stretched out on a red middle eastern style rug. He has a big shaved patch on his belly, due to his recent health travails. A piece of newspaper with banana and pink cigar catnip toys on it, in background and a brown paper bag, which is also a cat toy.
White tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears lies in a long stretch, on a cream carpet. A scratching post is to the left of him.
Long tabby with tabby markings down his back and over his forehead and ears lies stretched out on light brown carpet. There is a big shaved patch on his belly.