New cat at number ten/Neue Katze in Downing Street
am 12.09.2007 von http://transblawg.eu
Now that the Blairs have gone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer is living in the flat above 10 Downing Street and a new cat, Sybil, has been introduced, as reported by the Daily Telegraph and other sources.
Reports are accompanied by stories of the much-missed Humphrey. This was new to me:
In June 1995 when Mr Major was in Downing Street, he went missing and was presumed dead, but returned after staff at a Westminster medical college read his obituary and realised the cat that had made his way into their building was, in fact, Humphrey.
Alastair Campbell's diaries are quoted:
He remembers the “ludicrous situation of me and the Cabinet Secretary both having to spend a large part of our day dealing with it.
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