It's not long until I go on the big cat hunt.
So, I'm trying to keep abreast of reported sightings. There's an interesting story in The Sun today about a spotting in Essex. Frankly, I'm not convinced about this one. It just looks like a normal cat, as there's nothing next to it to give a sense of scale. (Maybe I should take a dwarf with me when I go, to stand next to my costly cats for a photograph!)
Still, if nothing else, it's given the sub-editors on The Sun a great opportunity for a few puns: Paws, Back in Black and The Missing Lynx, for example.
We get a few reported sightings this way. Our old farm-sitter once swore blind he had seen one on the hillside opposite and was quite offended when we gently suggested it might have someething to do with the quantity of cider he had consumed......