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Barbra Streisand

I’ve just read Giles Coren’s comment article in The Times today, November 11, 2023 which discusses Barbra Streisand’s statement when promoting her memoir in which she said that she hasn’t had fun in her life and that she wants to have some fun now and ‘live life’ which in her words, means: “I want …

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Does Cara Delevingne own cats?

Picture on Instagram which compares Cara Delevingne's nose with the nose of one of her Persian cats in a stark comparison. Cara lives with two Persian cats at the moment. I have presumed that she has adopted these cats and is not fostering them!

Yes, Cara Delevingne does own a couple of cats and they happen to be contemporary, flat-faced white Persians. They look quite cute too many people but when you look at the photograph below you can see one obvious health problem which is tear duct overflow causing staining down the face from the inner corner …

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Freddie Mercury’s silk waistcoat featuring portraits of Freddie Mercury’s six cats sold for £139,700

Delilah on Freddie Mercury's waistcoat

You may have heard about Sotheby’s recent auction of Freddie Mercury’s personal possessions. Well, they sold for very close to £40 million ($49,623,000). Most items sold for well over their listed estimates. One of those items was his famous silk waistcoat which is covered in hand painted portraits of his six cats, one of …

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Peculiar cat names created by famous owners (infographic)

Peculiar cat names

Here are some ‘peculiar cat names’. Well, I’ve called them peculiar but perhaps they are not. They are just different and imaginative; non-standard, and I am thankful for it. It’s what you expect from the cat caregivers who created them. Mark Twain is a classic. He loved cats and was great with words. TS Elliot, the same. Baddiel is a comedian. He created a great cat name. I wonder if Vivien Leigh had problems with her Siamese cat pooping inappropriately?! She loved the exotic Siamese cat. In her day the breed was more exotic than it is today. And Feinstein’s Bing Clawsby is perfect.

Lucy Letby’s two cats have been rehomed

Lucy Letby is, today, infamous and their entire previous life has been made history and her two cats rehomed

NEWS AND VIEWS: This is the sad, little cat story behind the Lucy Letby story. The world knows about her and the fact that she was convicted of murdering seven babies in a neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016 while employed as a nurse. She was …

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Brilliant white, deaf Norwegian Forest Cat loves long cycle rides in London

Travis and Sigi

This is a story with lessons! Lots of them. It concerns a proactive, positive man, Travis Nelson, who suffered from depression to suicidal levels in San Francisco, California after he lost his job but successfully turned his life around while providing an exciting life full of mental stimulation for his brilliant white, clear blue-eyed, …

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Award-winning journalist badly hurt by a domestic cat she was rescuing

Otherwise calm, nicely behaved domestic cats can attack when scared and defensively aggressive

NEWS AND VIEWS: As I buy The Times daily, I know of Carol Midgely. As well as being a columnist for The Times she occasionally helps out at her friend’s animal rescue charity. That’s nice. It tells me that she is a decent person. She went to the home of a recently deceased elderly …

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On Twitter when you search for the word “cat” you get a cat in a blender

The downward spiral on Twitter (alleged)

In this video, you see a commentator on Twitter (I do not know who he is) criticising Elon Musk for making things worse on that social media platform since he bought it. The man says that Musk go rid of 90% of Twitter employees which I think is incorrect and an exaggeration and in …

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