Purrs In Our Hearts - Cat Forum UK
Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: Christine (Blip) on September 11, 2007, 19:20:25 PM
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I am media monitoring tonight ( :tired:). But... I saw on the London news that the Browns have installed their cat, Sybil, in Downing Street. Sybil was described as a cat of a certain age, but I must say she was gorgeous :)
The Downing Street garden is probably extremely cat-safe, btw :evillaugh:
Nice to know GB is a cat lover!
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Oh thats great news, well done Sybil for taking over?
I used to have to media monitor during the Balkans war............a load of Tvs all going at once and drive everyone crazy when I needed to replay something I had recorded :rofl: :rofl:
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Oh thats great news, well done Sybil for taking over?
Yes, I think the UK is in safe paws now :rofl:
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Well done, Sybil. :)
We'll get some sense from no. 10 now. :evillaugh:
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:heeee heeee:
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I saw on the London news that the Browns have installed their cat
Sybil belongs to Alister Darling and his wife who live at no 10 not Mr and Mrs Brown.
We'll get some sense from no. 10 now.
As queen Victoria would say 'I am not amused'
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Times really are changing in British politics. The Prime Minister's official spokesman has confirmed that the cat is making a comeback in Downing Street.
The feline in question belongs to the Chancellor Alastair Darling and his wife Margaret who now occupy the flat above Number 10, while the Brown family live in the more spacious accomodation above numbers 11 and 12.
The cat is called Sybil and she is black and white, just like Humphrey, the last cat in Downing Street.
Humphrey survived the Thatcher and Major years but mysteriously disappeared soon after the Blairs moved in.
There were accusations that Cherie Blair had had him put down and Alastair Campbell was forced to arrange a photo call to prove that Humphrey was alive and well and living in retirement in the suburbs.
Humphrey passed away a few years ago of natural causes.
The Prime Minister's spokesman was keen to confirm that Sybil will be very much a cat for the whole house, allowed by Sarah and Gordon Brown to wander at will.
"It's the nature of things that cats are difficult to control," the spokesman commented.
And, as a senior spokesman at the Treasury revealed exclusively to Sky News, the fact that Sybil is "a renowned mouser" will surely make her welcome everywhere.
Sybil, who is named after the character in Fawlty Towers, arrived at her new home this afternoon.
McAvity the Mystery Cat is one of Gordon Brown's nicknames...given that the Darlings are from Edinburgh there will now be two McCats in Downing Street.
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that last post was taken off the internet by the way LOL
heres the pic that went with it - look at her left front paw/leg , how cute is that :Luv:
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You have to get up early to catch out Purrs folk :evillaugh:
I was coming on to post that the second bulletin I had watched associated Sybil with the Darlings, not the Browns, but, my oh my, I was too late!
Hope I am more accurate in the day job :evillaugh:
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she's a little darling herself though isnt she (so better her surname is such rather than brown :evillaugh: ) well i would like her left leg, its just so cute :)
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she is adorable. but looks a little startled at all the attention... :rofl:may be b&W cats will make a comeback!!
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I think Sybil is just lovely ;D
Misa asks why you think B&W cats need to make a come back cos he is already here :rofl: :rofl:
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Oh what a little sweetie! :Luv:
I still think Pearl could teach her a thing or two about mousing though... :evillaugh:
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she is adorable. but looks a little startled at all the attention... :rofl:may be b&W cats will make a comeback!!
I love b&w cats :Luv:
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What a gorgeous cat, we saw the report on the news, Alison :wow:
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Sybil belongs to Alister Darling and his wife who live at no 10 not Mr and Mrs Brown.
Don't the Brown's live at No 10? :Crazy:
Surely you mean no 11? - unless GB decided to stay put :evillaugh:
That's the Broons to those north of the border :evillaugh:
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Read down Mark, its all explained :rofl:
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Mark No 10 isnt large enough for a family so the blairs lived at No 11 as its much bigger and i think the browns are doing the same ;) I am presuming the houses may have some sort of internal linking though if sybil is free to wonder between both abodes.
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Sorry Christine. I'm behind the times. I thought the PM lived at No 10 & the chancellor lived at number 11 :evillaugh:
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No 11 as its much bigger and i think
You are quit right, as Mr & Mrs Blair with 3 then 4 children & Gordon Brown a bachelor at the time, t made sense to swap.
Mark, you certainly are behind the times, as it was many, many years ago that Mr & Mrs Blair and Gordon Brown did the swap. (in fact in the last century I believe, now doesn't that sound a long time ago?)
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Mark, you certainly are behind the times, as it was many, many years ago that Mr & Mrs Blair and Gordon Brown did the swap. (in fact in the last century I believe, now doesn't that sound a long time ago?)
:-[
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go and stand in that corner >>> Mark with the D cap on :evillaugh:
I'm sure alot of folk dont realise since it is still No10 that gets spoken about in general.