Van the Man...

This is Van...

He arrived as a secret, special present on Saturday with Niki, Geoff, Amber and Matt. I was so focused on the three new chooks (more of them later) that I was genuinely gob-smacked when the towel was lifted on this wee fellow. Van (because Geoff found him inside the van) is the latest in a long line of kittens to be dumped at Niki and Geoff's farm. He joins Tabby (who was totally feral when she arrived from Oxford) and Twink (who came to Governors Bay when her owner had to go into a rest home).


Unlike Tabby whose settling in was tempestuous and traumatic (for both of us), Van has made himself at home in two days and has traded in the cold downstairs shower for a snugger bed and an inert feline companion (as opposed to Twink and Tabby who both hiss at him).

He's also wasted no time in upending the marbles, scattering the possum fur and spilling the fleece and dried rose petals...

But after all he is a kitten and all young ones like to play...