Kittens!

Maisie had her kittens last night. One "maisie look-alike", two dark torties and a black and white. Laura is convinced the b&w is a boy, the other three are girls. Mother and babies doing well :)

RIP Tigsie

Some sad news here yesterday, as Tigsie, my lovely old cat of 14 years, passed away. We got Tigsie on Election Day in 1997 along with a ginger tabby girlie cat, so we called them Tony and Cherie. Tony's name didn't stick though and he became Tigger, or Tigsie very quickly.

Tigsie as a kitten

He was a soppy old stick. If I'd had a bad day at work or whatever and was having a mope on the bed or the sofa he'd always come and snuggle up to cheer me up.

Tigsie asleep with Trubsie (our second cat) many years ago

Unlike the Sudan Kitties he had no desire to eat my Egyptian Lancers, nor (like my first cat, many years ago) a taste for the topmasts and rigging of 1/1200 Napoleonic ships.

Tigsie asleep (there's a theme here)

We shall all miss him.