[West Ender]

I do hope she turns up. I'd say I'd look out for her but I doubt she'll travel this far.

Isn't it funny, they always know when they are going in the cattery? We used to have a beautiful, lovable, neutered ginger tom called Murphy. We had a caravan at that time and used to go away a lot so Murphy went to the local cat and dog kennels where, incidentally, he had been born (kitten of Keegan and Shankley - the kennel cats). The little b****r always disappeared an hour before he was due to go. He would hide under bushes in the garden or under beds upstairs.

Just an account of a little incident - we put him in the kennels once and called to pick him up on the way home. My husband saw him in a large cage and went in and got him. Instead of the usual head-rubbing and the "Oh I'm pleased to see you" purring, he was carrying a squirming, annoyed cat when he came to the office. "I don't know what's wrong with him", says Colin. "No, you wouldn't", says the kennel maid who comes in carrying the real Murphy in her arms. "That's Shankley, his dad".

Fingers crossed Bracken comes home safe and sound, Willow.