Well, aside from the obvious fact that odour control cat litter is less effective at odour control than the wooden kind not a lot has been going on in Algo world recently.

Many factors contribute to this lack of reportable activity. Here's a list;

• I was recently given a huge pile of books by our neighbour who is moving out. They are RPG rulebooks and I've been flipping through them when normally I would have written on my blogs.
• I have been up against it with these cats. The mum and older daughter are ready to be rehomed, but noone is taking them - this means I have to spend a lot of time looking after 5 reasonable sized cats and the resulting mess and hygiene challenges.
• I've had a little more work than usual recently, though this is no excuse since I can email posts to my blogs and have a mobile with email capability.
• The freaking heat! This was even more of a problem until this week since I was under orders to not cut my hair or shave until I had done my days on Harry Potter. This is no longer an issue since I won't be in Harry Potter because my (background) part has been cut.
• Desperate searching for jobs.
  
• I've been more than a little victim of a recurrence of past problems.

So there we go - while you've been wondering why I didn't write a rant on MPs expenses (boring - already done to death by others) or the Scottish Church having to vote on whether to allow a homosexual to hold office (they were overwhelmingly in favour) that is why.

Hopefully more posts should be appearing soon.

For now, though, I have to feed the cats for the fourth time today. Sigh.

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I looked up Sophies Choice... this isn't as bad.

I am officially a cat owner.

Here's what we agreed - we'd keep two of the kittens, one would go off with the mum and his big sister to a lovely new home.

Only, well, when it came to it I had real trouble choosing which one would go.

We were always going to keep Tiny (or The Bandit) since there's no way one could give up a cat you raised by hand from birth, but the other two are more problematic.

Dimitri (who used to be Smokes) is fairly docile and likes to be held a lot more than Bootsy does, who is a bit fraidy, but has, in my opinion, tonnes more personality and a penchant for standing up on two legs and setting about himself with double handed slaps etc.

They're both lovely.

So what do you do?

Here's my advice. DON'T try and make the decision while sitting in the room with them playing around your feet - it's just too hard.

What decision did I make? That should be patently and embarrassingly obvious.

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