I’m not sure which is more astonishing -

• A sale price of £4.50 or
• A normal price of £18.00!!!

Now I know I’m a fan of neither cats nor pottery tat but really…

As seen in Halstead’s Red Cross shop. Oddly the Hospice shop had the same error on its sign…

Some say to unlock him you have to stroke his face like this [Clarkson strokes face of audience member, a reference to the method required to switch an Apple iPhone on] and that if he was divorcing Paul McCartney he would keep his whining mouth shut [the audience applauds wildly and Jeremy pauses for a short moment]… [laughing]….. all we know is, he’s called The Stig!

Oh yes!

The next day she went on US TV and publicly slagged off Paul McCartney over their divorce.

Here’s some advice, put more succinctly than I could manage by Helen, for Ms Mills-McCartney :

“If you don’t like the media, just fuck off!”

Indeed…

There is also a post about the story on the PM Blog. I’ve commented on the feature but in case it doesn’t get approved (as I fear a pro-cat bias in the reporting of this story) I’ve copied my views here :

I am sick to death of selfish cat owners telling me it’s my problem that I object to having to clear up their cat’s excrement before I can mow my lawn, weed my plants or let children play in the garden.

Listening on PM to the cat owner whose cat had been taken I was appalled that she thought that having her animal’s excrement fouling other people’s gardens was fine. And then she pointed out that there were deterrents that could be bought to discourage cats from gardens – is she going to buy them for her neighbours? Why should they pay out their money and spend their time deterring animals which other people choose to have.

I wasn’t surprised by her comments however because 99% of cat owners show the same shocking arrogance. Dog owners can be prosecuted if they leave their dog’s excrement on pavements and other people’s gardens – it’s about time that cat owners were treated in the same way.

The person who relocated these cats has no doubt been driven to this act by the smug superiority of cat owners who believe that non-cat owners are in the wrong for not wanting disease ridden and stinking cat excrement in their gardens.

I will support the cat-napper wholeheartedly until cat owners start taking responsibility for their own animals’ mess. Sadly I expect it to be a long wait.

For the record I’d like to point out that despite the above, and being badly allergic to them, I don’t dislike cats per se. I just don’t see why I should have to clear up their excrement from my garden, and be treated with disdainful arrogance by cat owners when I mention this.

Of most interest to me are these two lines :

From the BBC Website – “Katie always loved the name Princess, but everyone thought it was a bit over the top. I loved it too but I wanted to name her after both our mums.”

From Peter’s Website – “Peter and Katie have decided to name their new baby daughter TIAAMII. It is pronounced tee-ah-me and is taken from both their mum’s names.”

I did try and look on Katie’s website for her official comment but you have to register to read important news and I’m not that much of a celebrity-whore. Honest.

Still, I spy a bit of conflict here. I wonder if there’ll be calling it different names on their TV program!

I like The Feeling. I like Lily Allen. I even like Simon Cowell. What are they doing being involved?

She died nearly ten years ago and was hardly an angel when she was alive… When the vacuuming stops I shall go back to feeling like I’m drowning in a sea of mushed Daily Expresses.

Please make it stop…