PennyDreadful

Mice do seem to be a big issue round here. We got rid of ours (with precious little help from our cat) by using electric plug-in 'sonic deterrent' things which emit a sound humans can't hear but rodents can't stand. For the first few days, we thought these devices were just making things worse, as mice seemed to be charging about all over the place - but we read an online review that said that at first the mice run around as the sound drives them mad but then they simply depart. So we persevered and that's exactly what happened - they just went away and haven't come back! Can't remember the exact brand name of the plug-ins we used, but they were like these ones. I think we bought them at Dulwich DIY on Lordship Lane.

I'd like to put forward The voice of Fife (shame about the video) and The voice of heaven (sometimes you don't even need to understand the words...)

I'd like to offer this rather lovely song, which means a lot to me for a number of reasons (not least 'cause the band are my mates, innit!)

Hello SeanMacGabhann, I'm delighted to meet another Cathal Coughlan fan. As far as I'm concerned, there can never be too many posts about the great man!

1) All the musicians I know who are making amazing music that hardly anyone gets to hear because the big money favours glutinous pap. 2) Cathal Coughlan. Extraordinary, fiercely intelligent songwriter (with a magnificent, Scott-Walker-ish voice) who seamlessly melds beauty and horror, poetry and politics, sorrow and wit, love and rage, the sublime and the ridiculous. And speaking of sublime and ridiculous: 3) Cud. Because they fill me with joy and make me dance - and Carl Puttnam is a big, daft, blubbery love god!

I don?t know you at all; but I was moved by your post and would like to thank you for the care and dedication you?ve shown to someone outside your own family, someone you could easily have turned your back on (as it seems others have). As someone with a chronic illness, I am deeply troubled by society?s drift towards accepting assisted suicide; but I would still echo what others have said here - please do try to somehow find the courage to make one last visit. It wouldn?t be condoning her decision, but rather honouring the way you have mattered in each other?s lives. This is bound to be a strange and painful time, but I can?t help feeling it would be much worse for you if you simply didn?t see her again...then it really would be like the ?sick budgie going off to the vet? scenario that you describe. Whereas by sharing a last visit, you would be acknowledging your shared humanity. If you do go to see her, the hardest part may well be walking across the threshold on the way in...and then on the way out again. Perhaps someone (your husband, or a friend) could come with you to her street and then either wait outside or at any rate meet you straight afterwards? While you are actually with her, it may well be fine ? you will be your familiar selves to each other; you may not even talk about The Matter In Hand as she may not want to, preferring everyday trivialities as light relief. Or she may have things of her own she has decided to say. Either way, the onus is not all on you to come up with the ?right things to say? because there are no right things to say in such a situation. Please don?t let the feeling that you must have some kind of speech prepared put you off going to see her. Just go ? just go in there and be with her a while. Whatever happens, you have nothing to reproach yourself for. You mention appearing cowardly ? not at all: you seem like a brave person in a tough situation. This is the hard stuff of life and many people don?t dirty their hands with it ? it?s admirable that you do. Good luck.

Mystic Mog

Anita Pallenberg Arnold Palmer Andy Pandy Anatomy & Physiology (skeleton outfit?)

Mullet with headlights

So very sorry to hear that it was your cat Woody after all. Just glad to have been able to help you at least find out what happened. If it's any consolation at all, the woman who witnessed it told us that it happened very quickly - in other words, he didn't suffer but died straight away. But I know that despite that, you must just be feeling so sad and my heart goes out to you. Very best wishes from my partner and me.

Hello James, no, the cat wasn't wearing a collar. Size-wise, it was not a huge cat, but not sure I'd actually call it small - just an average, medium-sized cat. Ms Robson the vet (tel.020 7701 6452) could probably give you a give you a better description. The other cat that came over to see what was going on (tabby with white bits) WAS small and possibly lost - it rushed joyfully in through our front door, only to be sent packing by our furious cat. Does your missing tabby have any white markings? Anyway, I'll try to ring your mobile number. Hope your cat turns up safe and sound.

After seeing the poor creature in daylight, I?d say that it was not so much tabby as grey with black stripy markings. (By the way, thanks for the tip about that poster, MsDulwich - I did go to check it out but couldn?t find it.) Anyway, have now taken the cat to the lovely vet who deals with our own cat; she?s going to check to see if it has an ID chip. If anyone wants to enquire about it, they can contact the vet directly: A.J.M. Robson 020 7701 6452

A tabby cat was killed by a car at around 10.45pm on Sunday night on Barry Road, near the end of Silvester Road. (A woman who saw it happen rang our doorbell to ask if it was ours and although it wasn?t, we agreed to deal with it as she was upset.) A very similar little tabby - though with extra white markings - was sniffing around a bit later as though possibly looking for its friend. Will put notes through doors locally and contact the vet with a view to finding out if the cat has an identity chip, but thought it might be an idea to put a post up here too - does anyone know whose cat it might be?