And a lot of boinging. (Courtesy of Nothing To Do With Arbroath.)

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Tink.

Tags: kitten, video, adorable, too+cute+to+live, kitty, cat, YouTube, video, viral

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For those of you who’re not subscribers: the latest chapter has just gone online for the general readership over at the TBM site. Here’s the URL —

http://www.the-big-meow.com/Chapter-Seven-Gateway

All the chapters presently online are linked to from this page.
We also have new versions of the Mobipocket-format files available. The marvelous Linnette Stoney (who’s been converting the […]

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Friends,
It’s up at last.
There are a lot of places where this notification needs to be posted, and a lot of explanations and profound apologies to be made… but for the moment it just seems best to get the news out.
Chapter Seven is now available online for subscribers: it’s linked to from the normal TBM subscriber […]

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I mentioned this place in passing in a post some while back, and it really needs to have something more said about it, as there’s not nearly enough information online.
There are a lot of nice estaminets and bars in Brussels, but this one’s a favorite one for both Peter and me. Other such places will […]

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An interesting article here on “The Disruptive Web”. Fascinating stuff…
Meanwhile, it still hasn’t snowed. Something threw off Met Eireann’s forecasts pretty conclusively, this week: I think it was that the weak high which had been sitting over Ireland, and was expected to be pushed aside by the fronts coming in from the […]

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Finally, a day which has consisted of nothing that looked like work at all.
Beemer continues to settle in. Her relationship with the other cats is shifting: improving, in at least one case. Goodman, whose early response to her varied between shock/horror and annoyance, seems to have calmed down now to the point where […]

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So Peter says, “I went into the bathroom and she was still hiding behind the towel. I reached down to scratch her, and she came out and went into the ‘igloo’…and once she was in there, I stroked her, and she purred.”

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