Comments on: In Mr Pussy’s Chair

By: Stephan Glover

Stephan Glover — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 12:44:47 +0000

My signed copy has just arrived. Saturday afternoon at the pub reading the Gentle Author. That is living!

By: Janice Fisher

Janice Fisher — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 14:45:35 +0000

I eagerly look forward to your book about Mr Pussy. I had two sister cats Bonnie & Misty who also adopted an old armchair. They bought such joy to my life.They were two rescue cats and like you I adored them. I also had for many years a little stray cat that adopted me and looked just like your Mr Pussy.I do hope one day you will have another little cat. I love your East End articles as my roots belong to the East End. I am compiling my Family Tree and I find your articles add so much to the life and times of my Ancestors. Thank you for all the research that you share with us it is ajoy to read. Take care.

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 20:47:47 +0000

My parents bought two of these in the 1950s and I have one now. Still very comfy. I always thought they were Parker Knowle chairs.

By: gioconda

gioconda — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 18:00:10 +0000

Another piece that begins with a cat in a chair, and goes forward and backward in time until the strings of past and present are fused into one. Every thing and every one in the Gentle Author’s world come enhanced with loving memory and eternal presence. It is for this that I await my copy of “The Life and Times” with warm anticipation.

By: Greg Tingey

Greg Tingey — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 09:45:42 +0000

Where does Schrodinger curlup, usually?

By: Paul Loften

Paul Loften — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 09:33:19 +0000

I was born in Stoke Newington and we lived in the bottom half of an old house with an overgrown garden and my first memories are of an old ginger cat, Amber that came regularly to visit . He would sit in the overgrown garden on sunny days and we would give him a bowl of milk and stroke his long fur. What a clever fellow he was . A long time has passed but I shall never forget that cat.

By: Kerrywood

Kerrywood — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 09:07:57 +0000

The empty chair, with vestiges of Mr P’s former presence, is particularly touching.

By: paddy kerr

paddy kerr — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 09:05:32 +0000

Another lovely story of Mr Pussy – this time with his chair. I love these stories and am looking forward to receiving my Life and Times of Mr Pussy’ book very much. Is there a sequel though – do you now have a new cat – and does he/she sleep in this same chair?

Why are so many of us obsessed by domestic cats? I think its more than unjudgemental love. A beloved cat touches awakens something deep inside us – a spiritual aspect – a memory of new born innocence. It is something to do with a profound respect for another living being that only cats, in my experience, can make you feel. This despite the fact I am allergic to them and can only have dogs these days. But I long for a cat and the Mr Pussy stories always leave me feeling I have once again entered that world of pure love and innocence.

Paddy

By: Leanne Teves

Leanne Teves — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 06:34:33 +0000

This makes me want to cry all over again. For one Mr. Pussy. For the “Mr. Pussys” I have had. For the marching of time…that stops for no one. Not our pets, not our children and not ourselves.