(For the indoor/outdoor data point, our cats have always been allowed outdoors.)

We have had a few occasions when the fleas have moved in and we’ve had to spray the house…only about 4 times in over 20 years of having cats, though, so it’s good odds! To be honest, all but one of those were when we were a bit late treating the cat with the monthly preventative stuff.

You guys really need to adopt our concept of the Live Chimney Feed. It saves constant refreshing, provides a focus for prayer/hopes/bargaining with God, and the seagulls are entertaining.

3 films I remember them showing us at primary school in the 1980s:

- Charlotte’s Web (where the spider dies)
- Ring of Bright Water (where the otter is brutally killed)
- Lord of the Flies (where two boys are murdered by their peers)

And a decade or so later, in secondary school, we had Threads! 🫠

I love how St. Luke is writing his Gospel in a book marked 'Bible', while St. John is writing his in his...diary. Picturing him lying on his front, kicking his feet, twirling a lock of luxuriant hair round one finger, as he breathlessly pens details of the Best Wedding EVER at Cana.

The annual bin-bag of hand-me-down clothes from our four Big Boy Cousins was always a joyous occasion for my sister and me when we were small. I remember being particularly thrilled by a pair of A-Team pyjamas with a glowering B.A. Baracus.

I’m not lying. The original poster has restricted replies, not me.

I didn’t prevent you from responding. I don’t have you blocked or muted, and I didn’t restrict replies to my comment.

1. Not a Christ-like response to vandalism, vile and hateful though that vandalism may be.

2. Not a remotely proportionate response to vandalism, vile and hateful though that vandalism may be.

3. St. Nick’s is in the UK.

I’m a left-wing Catholic. I found out the Pope had died via my (also left-wing Catholic) brother’s WhatsApp message: “Pope Frank’s last act was to harangue the American VP on the rights of refugees. Fair play.”

He was a better Pope than I dared hope for.

“It feels right.” You’ve found your spiritual home. 💜 God bless!

Meanwhile, outside NYC… My wife’s mezuzah is very similar to this one, and we have had at least 5 posties/delivery people/visitors helpfully inform us that our “doorbell” isn’t working!