After that coffee that gives a whole new meaning to Gold Blend with its price and the fact that it derives its flavour from the beans having passed right through a Sumatran of the species, felines are in the headlines, and one of those Problems You Never Thought You’d Encounter was highlighted by Sheila Black in the Financial Times the other Saturday: like most freelances these days, Ms Black has a facsimile machine at home, which now lives in a cat carrying cage, used to keep the family pet not in but out – it seems that when you find your faxes coming out with little black dots and random fine lines all over them, it’s because Tiddles has discovered that the fax machine exudes a consistent welcoming warmth and the cat insists on lying on it, only moving impatiently for a few moments when the thing whirrs into action to deliver a message.
