No, we have not succumbed to Scientology and have no fascination with Tom Cruise or Katie Holmes, or whatever weird thing either of them is doing at the moment. In all honesty we are rather cut off from the events of the US, we get our news from the BBC, and only catch the highlights. Or lowlights as the case may be. No, the Tom Cat we are referring to is our cat, Tom. And despite some reports, it is quite an origional name. We have given him the venerable name shared by such notables as Jefferson, Bombadil, Boonen and even Riddle. But the last, we really can't talk about his name. Writing these with my bride proofreading really shows my hatred of the apostrophe, what a damned foolish piece of punctuation. She also points out that I have 18 run on sentences so far, and my grammar is that of a 4 year old. Nonetheless, I have temporary control of the keyboard, and if I wish to maintain it, I should get back to the point. We have a cat, a kitten really, he is all black and promises to have a beautiful medium length coat. He is a postal cat, insomuch as we got him from a gentleman who works at the post office. And Tom is quite adorable, and has quite a loud voice with which he occasionally voices his displeasure at being seperated from his mother and siblings. Now I think our menagiere of pets is complete for the time being with the two mice and the cat. The only thing we need now is a boxer, probably a puppy so that the cat and boxer can get along famously. I have great faith that in due course fate will present us with the perfect puppy, and that Jak will then be the happy queen of a further expanded household.
-Miller
PS: Ma and Pa can now visit in the safe knowledge that Pa's favorite animals will be present.
Here's a song for your cat:
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Tom Boonen, de troonopvolger van Museeuw
Een boom van een kerel, één meter tweeënnegentig
Hij weegt tachtig kilo, nee, dat is echt geen lichtgewicht
Tom Boonen, in buikdansen is hij vrij goed
Tom Boonen, kan rallycrossen als het moet
Maar op zijn tweewieler is hij de snelste van het pak
Tom Boonen, amai wat een krak.
Yup, this cat is forever named Tom Boonen to me, much like the dog on Gilmore Girls was named Paul Anka. He he, little Tommeke.