All the male cats I’ve had were occasional wanderers. But all of the cats I’ve in my adult life were fully grown strays I took in, so we had a more casual relationship. Like roommates. With headrubs. The two I have now I got as kittens, hence I’m unusually goopy about them.

It’s depressing going to the lost and found on Craig’s list. All those people and their missing pets.

so I think he’s officially missing now.

How old is he now?

For a while when he was younger, Dave would go for a couple of days…the he would go out longer, and longer, somtimes staying out 4-5 days on a regular basis for a while. Think the longest he stayed out was 8 days, that I know of.

Had me pulling my hair out, as I’m sure you’re doing now, but he might just be the right age to give Momma grey hair.

I’ve called the shelters and put an ad on Craig’s list. I suspect his regular territory is quite wide, but I’ve driven around a little.

Kinda shits for the birthday fortnight. Charlotte and Damien and I all share roughly the same birthday (I’m not sure the exact day either of them was born, but it has to be early May).

Oh, the English are quite funny!

They can be. They have a pet Brit over at GCP who frequently has a delightful turn of phrase.

…fired out of a cannon into a dead whale’s rectum… indeed.

Winchester is the capital of England.

Every year in the tourist season the town is awash with Frenchies of all ages, apparently sent on an obligatory tour to gloat and preen themselves in the place where their boy William came, saw, conquered and was finally crowned.

The French history narrative is something to the effect that the descendants of the Norman conquerers later returned to France to liberate their cousins from the Nazis!

Fucking cheeky, cheese eating surrender monkeys! It’s about time we sent hordes of chavs over to Waterloo to stage a re-enactment, and then march from Belgium into Paris blitzkrieg style. With any luck they’d stay there.

“Philip” wrote:

William the Conqueror was not a Frenchman. He and his cohorts were the descendants of Scandinavian immigrants who landed in the north of France in order to rape, plunder and steal Celtic jobs from Celtic workers.

The capital of England is E.

(Regarding the capital, Harry said the capital of England was York.)

To which “norman” responded:

Philip.

Tell that to the Frenchies. It would’nt have been so bad if all they had stolen was their jobs.

They had it away with their whole bleedin’ country.

To which “Philip” answered:

Tell that to the Frenchies.

William le conquérant n’était pas un français. Lui et ses cohortes étaient les descendants des immigrés scandinaves qui ont débarqué dans le nord de la France afin de violer, piller et voler les travaux celtiques des ouvriers celtiques.

Oh, the English are quite funny!

I’ve always wondered how you and Uncle B. met. Thanks for thbe info.

When I realized the Deja News (now Google Groups) database didn’t go back farther than 1996, I was a very happy weasel.