Anonymous cats

The embodiment of lethargy, lounging happily on a car roof at Robin Hood Bay, summer 2000
Walking along a street in New Marston in Oxford, late August 2000
Caught in the spotlight at the bottom of my garden, Beeston (near Nottingham), autumn 2000

Named and much-loved cats

Swinger, one of Doug Wickstrom's cats, stretched out in Toad Hall in Minneapolis, Easter 2001
And again, out of an unmaskable love for fluffiness
To the right is Gandalf, one of Beth Friedman's two cats, photographed at Beth's home just after Easter 2001. I'm not quite sure what fascinated him about my washing-kit. To the left, the hotel cat at the Swan in Hay-on-Wye is being viciously accosted in its catnip bed by Vicki Rosenzweig and another wedding guest, July 27th 2001

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To the left a snail on a window-pane; to the right a butterfly, feeding on a thistle, spotted on the cliff path from Robin Hood Bay to Whitby, summer 2000
Proceeding to avifauna, on the right an African Grey Parrot spotted at Minicon 36 (at the Hilton Hotel in Minneapolis, Easter weekend 2001), and on the left a clutch of cygnets seen swimming on the Cam near Darwin college in Cambridge in summer 2001