Hello there Reader

The Moggyblog gang are pleased to announce that Moggyblog.com will be two years old on January the 1st 2009. So it's, all together now... Happy Birthday to us!

Norman is getting excited as he will be having a party to celebrate this great occasion, and will be inviting all his friends round for a pukka meaty meal with milk (not too much now!) and buisk, biski, buiskits..,biskits... Cake. Yes they'll be having cake and milk.

All the best from Moggyblogland we wish you a prosperous 2009.
Norm and I hope you'll sticking with us and popping back for a look now and again.

Ed.

Norman (on a warmer day) resting on the garden table after a run in with a squirrel.

..."how the heck do you spell that dear"

Clearly, with so many cat types and so little time, I've had to dip in to existing resources which detail the different cat breeds and their histories.

[1] Wikipedia.com http://en.wikipedia.org

Wikipedia are my prime source of information. So thanks to you guys at 'Wikipedia'. By the way each of their articles has a full references section so you can look into the reference even deeper if you so wish.

[2] Cats Protection. http://www.cats.org.uk/

We've had a number of cats from these people who do a great job. If you want a home a stray or unwanted cat (in the U.K) then please visit this website and look for a branch near you.

And thanks to all the cats we've owned and loved in the past.. Including Freddie, Jingles, Tiger, Pudding, Podge (a dog - cover your ears lads!) and Gingerbread. Thanks pals you'll all be sadly missed and fondly remembered.

Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer, by T.S. Eliot

Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer were a very notorious couple
of cats.
As knockabout clown, quick-change comedians, tight-rope
walkers and acrobats
They had extensive reputation. They made their home in
Victoria Grove--
That was merely their centre of operation, for they were
incurably given to rove.
They were very well know in Cornwall Gardens, in Launceston
Place and in Kensington Square--
They had really a little more reputation than a couple of
cats can very well bear.

If the area window was found ajar
And the basement looked like a field of war,
If a tile or two came loose on the roof,
Which presently ceased to be waterproof,
If the drawers were pulled out from the bedroom chests,
And you couldn't find one of your winter vests,
Or after supper one of the girls
Suddenly missed her Woolworth pearls:

Then the family would say: "It's that horrible cat!
It was Mungojerrie--or Rumpelteazer!"-- And most of the time
they left it at that.

Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer had a very unusual gift of the
gab.
They were highly efficient cat-burglars as well, and
remarkably smart at smash-and-grab.
They made their home in Victoria Grove. They had no regular
occupation.
They were plausible fellows, and liked to engage a friendly
policeman in conversation.

When the family assembled for Sunday dinner,
With their minds made up that they wouldn't get thinner
On Argentine joint, potatoes and greens,
And the cook would appear from behind the scenes
And say in a voice that was broken with sorrow:
"I'm afraid you must wait and have dinner tomorrow!
For the joint has gone from the oven-like that!"
Then the family would say: "It's that horrible cat!
It was Mungojerrie--or Rumpelteazer!"-- And most of the time
they left it at that.

Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer had a wonderful way of working
together.
And some of the time you would say it was luck, and some of
the time you would say it was weather.
They would go through the house like a hurricane, and no sober
person could take his oath
Was it Mungojerrie--or Rumpelteazer? or could you have sworn
that it mightn't be both?

And when you heard a dining-room smash
Or up from the pantry there came a loud crash
Or down from the library came a loud ping
From a vase which was commonly said to be Ming--
Then the family would say: "Now which was which cat?
It was Mungojerrie! AND Rumpelteazer!"-- And there's nothing
at all to be done about that!