This morning one of my cats, Jean Clutha (cryptically named after author Janet Frame) was playing in my room this morning, tearing about. It's unusual for her because she mainly just sits around in close proximity to her food bowl awaiting a pat on the head or a scoop full of cat food to be dropped in her bowl. But I managed to drift off to sleep again...

A few minutes or hours later — who can tell? The skies are grey and wintery — I awake to find Jean sitting on my bed claning herself with her rubber mouse toy, I started to close my eyes when I noticed that her toy had grown a new tail. I looked a little closer and only then did I notice the wet fur, half-shut eyes and red puncture wounds.

I quickly got up and carefully used a piece of paper to scoop the body into an empty smartie-sized box and carefully threw it in a garbage bag hanging on the back of my door.

Later on, after getting over the initial (but minor) shock — I still wasn't sure whether to reward Jean or not. I decided to do nothing, but I am suprised she turned out to be a mouser; my guess would have leaned more towards ottoman — I walked into the kitchen to find two more mouse bodies.

Though, I couldn't think of a topical mouse-related rarity in the Teenbeat catalogue to commemorate the event, I was reminded of this song from the Japanese release of Uncle Wiggly's Jump Back, Baby (100 Guitar Mania). This song also appears on Make You Crawl 7" (Dark Beloved Cloud DBC014).

Next week I will be away in NYC, so I will not be posting an MP3 next week. Dissapointed? Don't be, instead click here.