Sybil & Dorotheus : The Tales (& Tails !) of Two Nations

We are delighted to announce a major new international collaboration between the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer’s cat, Sybil, and Dorotheus, feline of the Russian President. The collaboration will involve a series of dialogues, facilitated by our old friend Boris the Cat, on a range of important political themes. In the opening session, each cat will clarify her/his ideological pedigree. Photographs are courtesy of The Telegraph and Izvestia. The title of the series owes it’s inspiration to “Sybil, A Tale of Two Nations” by 19th century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, to whom the saying ” Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics” is attributed.

Sybil

Dorotheus

Tributes for Metro Mog

We just love this story  !

From www.metro.co.uk

Shrine for a cat that sat on every mat

by MILES ERWIN – Wednesday, September 17, 2008

To some he was known as Ginger. Others called him Dave or Atkinson. Some even knew him as Fonzworthy III.

Now the death of a charismatic stray moggy who won the affection of an entire street has sparked a flood of ‘Diana-like’ tributes.

 

Ginger, aka Dave, aka Atkinson, aka Fonzworthy III: RIP

 

Residents who once fed and fussed over him have laid poems, flowers and photographs at the spot where the ginger tom liked to stretch out to cat-nap.

‘He touched our lives in so many ways,’ said 40-year-old Keith Davis, of Holloway, Bath. ‘Although he was streetwise, he was wonderfully affectionate.  

‘Collectively, we looked after him and he’ll be missed terribly.’

One tribute addressed to Dave read: ‘We’ve enjoyed your company immensely over the years and will miss and remember you.’ Tony Brown, 66, knew the cat as Atkinson. ‘When he died, we thought we ought to put a notice up because he was so well known,’ he said.

 

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Thanks to Mr Windsor Waitrose…

Some years ago, after Janet had sampled a few Bombay Sapphire gin tasters in the Windsor branch of Waitrose, her host – a rather dapper gentleman, in the true meaning of the word - said that she reminded him of Britain’s best selling poet Pam Ayres. Janet was slightly taken aback, still hoping at that time for a favourable comparison to Madonna, or other glamour girl. Pam Ayres is somewhat her senior. Seeing Janet’s slight surprise, her host stressed that he’d meant the comparison as a compliment. Now Janet thinks of him as one of the inspirations for her “Water Poems” (see below).

At Thames Gateway

A tribute from contemporary Estuary England to  S T Coleridge’s poem “Kubla Khan”, as submitted to the Thames Gateway Bridge Public Inquiry by Janet in 2005

At Thames Gateway did Rogers Khan*
A stately pleasure-dome decree,
Where Tamesis, sacred river, ran
Through transport corridor of man,
Down to Southend-on-Sea.

Then Government did command
A conference in London’s Dockland,
And midst this Rogers heard from far
Across the river voices prophesising war !
A montage of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves….
Government had failed to measure
Environmental impacts on the weather !

A planner and developer
In a vision once I saw,
With a traffic engineer,
And on his model he displayed
Complex forecasts overlaid.
What future held these three
For the Gateway Bridge Inquiry ?
At which junction, I awoke
And replied : The SEA, The SEA**

*Lord Rogers of Riverside  **Strategic Environmental Assessment

Michael Foster MP

Michael Foster
Came to Worcester
And trod in a puddle of rain
He trod in a puddle
Right up to his middle
And never was seen again

Based on the nursery rhyme Dr Foster went to Gloucester (which also has problems with flooding !) Michael Foster has been the “New Labour” MP for Worcester since 1997