Aww - my little boy!

He does love his little plastic ball that holds kitteh treats:-

It's got a plastic screw through the inside and a hole at the top, so you drop treats in it and rotate the lid so there's a much smaller hole in play.  The treats disappear down the screw to the bottom so the cat has to roll it about to extract them.  He -loves- nosing it about the floor and patting it with a paw and occasionally rolling around on his back, wrestling with it.

Kitteh and cake

I had more cake:-

And then, the excitement of the day was a neighbourhood cat whining at being stuck on a roof:-

The Fire Brigade turning up and the cat panicking and buggering off over the roof to safety (of course):-

New toy!

My trusty Canon Ixus died a few months ago after many years of good service. It Just Worked. Then at a gig at Somerset House last year, it went a bit funny. The day after, it recovered and was fine again for a while until it wasn't any more.

Under advice from cameraphile friends of mine, towards the end of last year, I checked out the Canon S90 and fell in love a tiny bit. And yesterday I finally gave in and spent some of my October bonus on one. So now I have one functioning compact camera and one slightly broken (USB connector usable only with great care, so it needs repairing, though I can use a card reader instead if I have to) DSLR that has lasted really well since March 2007 or so and still going strong at well over 10,000 photos taken with it now.

Obligatory cat test shots...