Subject:          Re: All quiet on every front....

I know you lot have been sitting on the edge of your lard-mail-cubicle seats
for the past few months, but I can now relieve your tension ... our first
vegetable has come up ... it's a little baby marrow!  Ahhh.

But enough of such married-life antics, also headlining in the Harris household
was Jacks' Andersen's xmas do (held curiously in June) where I managed to 
not wear a green skiing jacket (`a la xmas show 2 years ago), and also didn't
completely goon-up any conversations with their head-of-UK tax. In fact it
was an excellent evening!

Blackberry & Dandelion have grown up, and the great thing is we hardly have to 
feed them at all now, due to the very high numbers of moths and other insects
that they take great pleasure in hunting and eating.  Did I tell you about the
time Blackberry climbed on top of the greenhouse? (cats are now banned from
INSIDE the greenhouse, since last time when Dandelion decided that my tray
of oh-so-delicate strawberry seedlings would be a perfect surrogate for her
litter tray.) Anyway, Blackberry climbed on to the ridge, where the roof makes
a 60degree intersection with the walls (can you picture it?) and proceeded to
cattedly try and make his way up the last 3 feet of roof to the top.
Unfortunately if all you have are very-sharp claws and the roof is made of glass
the end result was 1 feet of upwards scrabbling, followed by 1 feet of gradual
fingernails-on-blackboard type of gradual descent.  This culminated in a last
desperate attempt for the summit followed by an even quicker descent with all
four paws wielding fully-extended nails and Blackberry's head last seen disappearing
over the edge of the greenhouse with an 'I know what's happening, but
I just can't-do-anything-about-it' look on it!  My how I chuckled as I polished my
cucumber leaves...

Love, Jonnieeee.