In other news...

[desperance]

Either I left the fridge door open last night (which is, let's face it, unlikely) or else the magic lure of sossidge! pulled some brains into my boys, at their time of need; for lo, I came down this morning to find the fridge indeed open, and a half-nommed string of sossidges! hanging out of it as if it were a Punch and Judy booth waiting for its crocodile.

And I had been so pleased with them before, because they slept within touching-distance for hours on the bed last night, without either Mac pouncing or Barry running away. Then they disappeared in the early morn: to arrange their own breakfast, apparently, as I was conspicuously not getting up yet. Self-catering cats. I should've known there was mischief apaw...