A CAT-ALOGUE OF MANLY NEEDS
IT’S International Cat Day onthursday and moggy-mad millions around the globe will be treating their feline friends to an extra cuddle or a packet of Dreamies.
Especially the growing number of “catchelors” – single men who’ve finally realised their best friend isn’t necessarily a dog. A survey revealed that one in four solo fellas finds their furry friend such
ONLY another month to go until Strictly high kicks off again.
And it looks like the usual mix of ex-sportsmen, glam soap stars and comedians no one’s really heard of until they cop off with their dance partner.
Oh yes, and a Youtube vlogger to keep the kids interested.
This year’s Joe Sugg-type is Saffron Barker, 19, who, I’m told, has four million social media followers, a Primark homewear range and a bestselling book. Saffron is good company it “takes the pressure off finding a partner”.
Half say it keeps them calm and ten per cent claim their puss offered “counsel” through an emotional break-up when they were feline vulnerable.
Hurrah for the catchelors, I say!
Because that’s the sad spinster stereotype killed off in a stroke.
Meanwhile, an army of 800,000 children, some as young as four, are spending up to 50 hours a week caring for sick or disabled relatives because council services have been axed – saving the Government £2.5billion.
And hundreds of vulnerable, often suicidal children are being sent miles from home for treatment in scarce mental health units while others wait years for treatment.
It just goes on and on.
Where is the justice for our children? Why are our leaders wronging them so?
If we are hardwired to expect authority figures to help, then we can’t keep watching and waiting expectantly.
It is time to find new leader bears. So our children get the fair society they expect and deserve.
also “looking for love”... so that’s the Strictly Curse sorted.
Then there’s bouncy little Mike Bushell, the BBC sports presenter who’s as keen on fake tan as Saffron, and ex-corrie star Catherine Tyldesley, who swears she swerved all dance classes at theatre school. And who will dear Anton get? He lost out on the judge’s job again so I reckon he deserves a real contender at last. Not the obligatory older woman with two left feet or a no-hope diddy like Widdy.
A BRITISH firm is developing pet food made from ground- up fly larvae. Experts believe humans will soon be munching maggots as a sustainable food source.
Hope it’s tasty grub.