Now I’m not promising anything, because if you know me AT ALL you’ll know that I can’t upload pictures and am almost as rubbish at links - but if you copy & paste this, you should see Harry 
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Who is currently dividing his time between behind the bookcase and exploring the sitting room. We have also had bouts of purring on laps and scoffing Whiskas milk. Harry’s settling in just fine!
The rest of the cats are extremely indignant at our having the sitting room door shut, particularly as we’re the other side of it! Limited introductions will take place later this evening, and Mum will meet Harry for the first time this afternoon - she knows nothing about our getting him, but is going to be offered a share in him!
We seem to have got ourselves a new cat!
Met him at the vets last night whilst collecting a bag of food. He was brought in a stray by the Cats Protection League, had been left by his owners who emmigrated and was being fed by a neighbour… (grrr! - don’t get me started!!)
Now I’ve always wanted a ginger & white called Harry. And when I heard this poor chap (who’s somewhere between 8 and 10 and therefore not so easy to re-home) was a ginger and white, well I had to at least meet him…
Then this evening Chris came to meet him, alongwith Button. We know from previous introductions that Pickle would hate him on site and Eric would be fine, and as part of the wish to have a fourth cat was to give Button a buddy since the other two chummed up, we took her along to test the waters.
The waters are not deep and stormy, but nor are they shallow and tinkly. We were all four in a room for about an hour, there was a little hissing and growling, but not as much as I might have anticipated. So we took a deep breath and nodded at each other.
Harry joins his new family this Sunday!
Flippin’ ‘eck, where did that last week go? I know I was on a hectic schedule, but still…
Anyways, did Austin and personally take credit for ending one of the longest droughts they’d had for 50 years, as it DID NOT STOP RAINING (but was still bloody hot and humid!) - I experienced a traditional American shopping mall where I bought some jeans (I like America, I’m a size 12 in America!), corn bread (which is gorgeous!) and Mexican food (OK when made without all the hot & spicy stuff, but the refried beans were NOT a hit!), then onto San Diego (hurrah for sunshine!) where I paddled in the Pacific, ate yet more yummy food and spent far too much money on souvenirs and presents. I somehow wangled an upgrade on my way back to New York, shame it was only for the first of two flights, but can I just say First Class really *is* the only way to travel!! Roll on that lottery win… Got picked up from Heathrow by Chris, talked the poor man’s ears off on the drive home, sat up playing with the cats til 2am and then promptly slept til 4 this afternoon!!! Ain’t jet lag great!!
In total, I think I’ve met over 40 of my Daily Kitten friends, who were in every case as nice in person as they are on screen, and they have all been invited to come and stay with me if they come to the UK. We may need a bigger house… 
One week into my trip to the States, and all is going swimmingly - if a little crazily!
The object of the exercise is to meet as many friends as possible that I’ve made through dailykitten.com, and so far I’ve done New York City, Long Island, Chicago and Cleveland! Sightseeing is limited by limited time at each stop, but I’ve managed some quiet time at Ground Zero, walking over Brooklyn Bridge, gawping at Times Square, a mini cruise around Long Island Sound and an architectural cruise around Chicago. More importantly, there has been much merrymaking, chatting, and consumption of fabulous puddings, so all in all a damn good trip so far!
There will be pictures…