Monkey

I had spoken to your husband when my ginger cat also went missing from Whateley Road. Glad our little gingers are both back!

Sorry to hear your cat is missing. Ours went missing a few weeks ago and has now come back. He must have been stuck in a garden shed. We actually hand wrote notes (our printer was not working) and posted them through our neighbours' letter boxes quite late in the evening. Corfu was freed at 3.30am in the morning so the personal touch must have helped. I am not saying you should hand write your notes but you could print as many times as you can and post them through people's letter boxes. Also put posters up in hot spots if you have not done this already (bus stops, train station, supermarket...) Good luck and keep us posted.

I am very surprised. I have seen them every morning for at least six months I would say and they have never said a word to me, good or bad. They usually seem to be having a good laugh with each other. I hear what you say though. Why don't you chat to the owner of the shop? I also highly recommend the F*** o** approach which often does the trick!

Will read anything. Thanks- will look up The Magus tomorrow. I read Restless recently. It was rather good.

A black and white cat has appeared on my doorstep. He's been here all afternoon. I live on Whateley Road. His size is above average I'd say but he is slender. He's very friendly. No collar.

Unfortunately the council tax people are not that regarding.

I bought a flat in East Dulwich 14 months ago. Believe it or not but my property has still not been registered. Some paperwork seems to be stuck with the seller's lazy solicitors. No amount of chasing, letters and faxes seem to do anything about it. My advice: don't buy from property developers. They're bound to use cheap (+stupid/lazy) estate agents and solicitors and once they have their money, they won't do anything else for you. Anybody agrees?