If Ever There Was a Cat Suited to Purple Velvet with Gold Frogging, It Was Paddy. She Was a True Party Girl, in Contrast to My Other Cat, Who Simply Disapproves of Fun ; Thislife

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In the summer of 1986, I acquired two tiny kittens.

One kitten was obtained in a conventional way through a friend at work; the other, a female with slightly mad tortoiseshell markings, was found on a traffic island in London's Clerkenwell Road.

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If Ever There Was a Cat Suited to Purple Velvet with Gold Frogging, It Was Paddy. She Was a True Party Girl, in Contrast to My Other Cat, Who Simply Disapproves of Fun ; Thislife

'A lot has happened in my life since 1986. In those far-off days I was thin, had quite good dress sense, and was just about to start a lovely job at the BBC's The Listener magazine that I assumed would ...

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