To Bob Fein -
    We tried a new dish a while back.  It has two bowls set into a plastic
'frame' which has a plastic mesh from the bowls out to the edge.  It was
said to be 'guaranteed spill proof' in that you can't tip it over, and any
food or water which escapes from either bowl is supposed to fall through
the mesh, and then can be washed by putting the whole thing in the sink or
dishwasher.  Voila clean floors!
 
    The first time that we tried it, we came back to find food EVERYWHERE,
even on the ceiling !!  Turned out that poor Jack (fercat) had caught his
bell in the mesh and had absolutely panicked at the thought that the food
was attacking him.  Too much !!!
 
Re Peaches -
    She is mellowing out nicely now that she doesn't have to keep an eye out
for Rocky who was so jealous of her.  Her biggest adventure to date has been
the 'great slipper caper' in which she repeatedly stole Susie's left bedroom
slipper.
 
    I'd be working late at night and would hear this noise like a peg leg
person walking downstairs.  Going to investigate there would be Peaches and
her treasure halfway down, alternately falling and being pushed from stair
to stair.  She'd look up with this "Oh hi, how are you?" expression on her
face, and feign disinterest.  Next time I'd check it would be gone, and we'd
find it a day or two later stuffed under the couch or some such.  Only the
left one, no interest whatsoever in the right.
 
    Trouble is that now it has been gone now for more than a month with nary
a sign.  She will check on the right one once in a while (sniff it ?), but
it remains while the left has been apparently teleported over to join the
missing socks.
                                        - Bill Williamson
[Posted in FML issue 1356]