First photo, latest news

[desperance]

The little bugger's almost impossible to photograph, of course, because he doesn't sit still for the seconds that my ageing camera demands. Even when its batteries aren't dying. I may need a new camera. Still, this is approximately what he looks like. More better photos later, prob'ly...

Meantime, I have had a nice day in Darlington (!), encouraging (why do I insist on the 'e' in ageing, but have no truck with any such in encouraging, when its purpose is the same? Aging looks awful to me, it insists that its middle g is hard; encourageing would be ridiculous. Sigh...) Vane Women to write fantasy. Don't know what kind of day the boys have had, but I came home to no great disasters. And "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness" on TV, which always makes me happy; so I sat to watch that, and after a while Barry slipped away from Mac and came to sit on me, which made us both happy. Until Mac came too, and sat on both of us; and even that Barry endured for a couple of minutes, before he wriggled out from under and went to sit on his Xmas stocking instead, casting baleful glances back...




They seem both to be able to get closer to each other without skittering away, and to be able to spend time at opposite ends of the house; both of these things, I think, are good. I do hope they'll be friends, though, sooner or later. Preferably sooner. I could live without ten or twelve or fifteen years of armed neutrality and/or suppressed loathing...

Comments

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

Thoroughly trodden territory, of course, but in the stocking picture Barry looks *just* like Mal.

[szandara.livejournal.com]

Your Mac looks just like my late, lamented Andromeda, who lived to the ripe old age of 19.

*kitty nostalgia*

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Oh, Mac is very pretty! And Barry looks very baleful indeed. *laugh* Poor kitty. It sounds like they're going to be okay, though. :)

[the-acrobat.livejournal.com]

Mac is adorable. And Barry is very sweet on his Christmas stocking. He knows what's his.
It sounds like they're doing well together. My cats never reached the point where they would touch one another at all, so I think Barry's tolerance is a good sign.

[lady-findel.livejournal.com]

Mac looks just like my best friend's cat... Who is about the same age as well!

[cornishmoth.livejournal.com]

Yep! The new fella's a cutie. Glad they're both doing so well.

Parenthood can be such a worry...

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Barry has that Sidney Dark Look (Tm). And Mac looks a lot like Sappho (that's 'Goddess' Sappho to you) who lived with us for a while in Brighton.

I have been following your saga with keen interest.

[cue a shout from the Williams-Jones kitchen: "Sidney! This is YEAST! Not CATFOOD!" ]

Oh dear. Excuse me a moment...

[devonellington.livejournal.com]

They're doing remarkably well. Give them a few more weeks and they'll be buddies.