Watching our two new kittens play is like falling in love
The massive news in my family is we have two new kittens. Our beloved cat Tiger, you will recall, departed this life last January. That left his pal Lucky, now 17. We were going to leave it until Lucky also shuffled off before drafting in the replacements, but we got tired of waiting for her to die. My daughter, Rachel, did the research and one Friday she and her brother, Sam, their mother, Nicola, and Lewis, Rachel's boyfriend, drove over to Shepherd's Bush to take delivery.
In accordance with tradition, I stayed at home. The thinking is, soft touch that I am, if I went along to help choose two kittens out of a litter of six, we'd come back with all six. So the
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