Friday

Reports are that Henry and Tommy were seen yesterday strolling up the path and into my kitchen together presumab;y for their afternoon tea!    Possibly Henry, by invitation, as Tommy has been turning up his nose at what I put down for him.  Mind you Henry is getting fussy, he never finishes anything off now, just takes a little of what he fancies, he called in about an hour ago for a snack.  Now he is getting meat at home he probably treats it as a Starter!
He had a run in with the dogs on Tuesday they must have cornered him as there was a great deal of barking and Hissing - seems to have got away unscathed though.

September romps

Since returning from long weekend away haven't seen much of Henry during the day although he still calls here for breakfast and supper!  The latter usually between midnight and 2am that is until today.
2 nights after I got back he came in early morning and there was quite a fight in the kitchen between him and Tommy and he was vanquished. Did not stop him returning next day though.
Here he is lurking in the bushes

while Tommy waits to see what he is going to do

tonight Henry arrived sometime after 6pm - he was chased out of kitchen and round the garden by Tommy, then there was a real set to and Henry ended up sitting on the tallest fence post available, tried to get down into an adjoining garden but was shouted at by a lady who obviously didn't want him in her garden, he couldn't get back this way as Tommy was waiting, so just sat there with his tail twitching ominously.   Tommy came back to house followed at a distance by Henry who was not going to give up - being the extremely tenacious cat he is.   Not manged it yet although he has tried several times since.   If it is something in his dish Tommy doesn't like, I don't think he is too bothered, but otherwise he gets a little rattled.

Henry obviously feels Senior cat food is more palatable than kitten food!    Who knows!!

of cats in general

Liked this piece on the BBC website this morning on the length of a cat's life
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19467491    1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and last para (mind you  I think I'm not too far distant from last paragraph!!
Henry made a brief appearance last evening but disappeared quickly when I appeared - came back in early hours and demolished what remained of Tommy's dinner though.
Some one remarked this morning in Daventry that you shouldn't give kittens duck on any account, but later when looking round supermarket for cat food I saw packets of food expressly for Kittens which included duck?!

this week

Henry has made his usual nightly forays looking for more food, caught him Thursday night. got hold of him and gave him a telling off, he looked at me as if to say you can't tell me off and disappeared out the door, didn't stop him returning a few hours later though.   He played with Tommy for a while Saturday and today.Tried his usual trick of outracing the dogs again yesterday, giving Pam more grey hairs!          No more collars recovered to date!
Strangely I found I had these two cat mugs in my Cupboard