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NE OF OUR old tomcats, Timmy, is pushing nine. Most cats of Tim’s age are

quiet content to spend the winter in

Florida: translation,

huddled on

the hot-air

register, but no one has ever,accused Tim of being

normal. : :

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a!) y Barbara |

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“~~ Regular readers, may: remember him as the cat that’ jumps into the swimming - ‘pool, paddles over-to the lad- der ‘and climbs out. ©

” He also chases raccoons — “net the safest hobby for a cat .— ,but for. some - strange “reason the coons don’t argue

". but-seramble‘over the fence. . Although I’ve had a.number / smallest ones they had and

of motherly talks ‘with ‘Tim,,

Warning him of the folly of _cohhis ways,,he blinks. his big -" yellow eyes at me, yawns‘and

~.tears hell out of.the carpet...

‘We’ had’ our’ first snowfall

“fast night’ and- woke’ up “to. “.>find about six/iriches: of the - “stuff over everything... I curs- ed it, knowing. that there’s

months of. it.to come and not:

the smallest-chance of snow- oe ‘birding ‘south: for a. few. ‘weeks. The budget’s shot.

: Timmy sat for the longest ~

time on the windowsill, wat- -

“ching the big flakes dusting ~

., the yard. Do cats” have, “"memories?. He was studying «the snow as if there was something he ought to.

“remember about it. Finally, _ he stretched and walked firm-

ly-out the cat door.

A minute laters. he was. word ‘Link’ for the ferries.

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standing in the middle of the patio, sniffing the snow.

He remembered! Whee! Wiih a burst of speed he zig-

_ Zagged across the yard, ‘skid- ding to a stop and tossing the snow with his nose. Rever- sing, he darted back, churned around a corner and leaped for the - fence. fence, he did a flying leap in- to a shrub sending the snow in clouds. .

‘Dashing to the centre of the yard, he tunnelled ntil he looked like a mole burrowing under the lawn. Finally, after a few vigorous rolls, paws scratching the air, he - walked sedately back through the cat door.

Maybe we should all take a lesson from Timmy — if you can’t make it to Florida, go play in the snow.

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DEAR BARBARA; — Enjoyed your columns on Channel Islarids. We were there last summer and really ‘like them.” Made a short movie (strictly amateur) on Guernsey and won first prize with itat the Vancouver Film and ideo Production Club

competition in October.

'-yWe rented cars on Guern- sey and Jersey, asked for the

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| asked Brian and he remembers an old-timer we shared a train compartment with on the way to Ports- mouth and thinks we might have picked it up from him. You're right, though. The proper name is ‘“‘Sealink”’.

I’ve never been to New Zealand so can't help you much there. Next column, Ill condense my notes on Australia. Do consider stopp- ing off in Fiji for a few days — it's magnificent! ft guarantee you'll win another film prize.”

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