Your pets

  There goes the crop....  By the way what are the plants?

Adorable.

We used to have a green sunblind for the conservatory's glass roof, this was a just a large square of fabric to fend off the direct summer sun that stretched over the outside of the roof and was fastened at each corner by large rubber bands. Syd would see this as a "thing to play with" and, like the crawl net on the Royal Marine assault course, a source of endless fun. Many a time I would be quietly working away on the laptop to be interrupted by a banging noise on the roof, seeing the view of the underside of a cat as it crawls along a glass roof is one of life's small pleasures. The really odd thing is it never once occurred to me to grab a video camera - it would have been the easiest £250 I ever earnt.

The black and white one (Felix - I know, how original, wife's idea) is a lover boy and will just lay on you wanting petting all the time. It took him about a year for him to trust us and come inside.  The other one, Freddie is like Freddie Kruger.  He will hunt and eat anything, we have found a good handful of squirrels half eaten, mice, lizards, occasional birds, and a small snake once.  After about 3 years, he finally trusted us enough to come in the house to sleep at night.  Another 2 years and now will lay on my wife's lap for petting, but is still paranoid as can be if anyone moves.  They have been great fun!