I am trying to think of a way of adequately expressing how much i'll miss Barney the cat.  To say he was the best cat on the planet does not explain him well enough and given the last 12 months has always been there as the one constant in my life.  If there was a way he was going to go it was always to be run over by a car on the road outside, it is busy and he was a dumb friendly cat who probably thinks cars don't hurt him.

 

Barney, Barnstable, Beezer, B to name just a few of his names came from a random farm off the M11 after much searching by Steph and myself.  He had brilliant tiger like head markings.  He has always since been a bit daft, the only cat i know who was unable to use a litter tray, managing to get poo all over him resulting in a daily bath which he hated.  He also had no balance, watching him on the fence was always funny and had a perchant for trying to get in burning fires, a cat with a death wish maybe.

 

He was also friendly and made friends with most of the neighbours, in the search for food and friends.  He was always about and has been my alarm for the past few years waking me up routinely either by licking my hair or meowing a bit too loudly at the side of the bed.  He always wanted to play with his favourite game of chasing the mouse.  He used to bat the mouse under the door and the try and retrieve it, in fact he used to knock items under the fridge and then spend hours trying to get them out.

He was always there for attention and loved it, he used to search me out in the house, probably for food but seemed like he wanted the company.

 

He did have a collar, in fact he had about 5 during his lifetime, but always managed to lose them, no idea where still.  I'm trying to think of all the things i'll remember him by but he was such a pretty cat with such a personality that it is difficult to express everything.  Saying all this about him might sound a bit daft but given he has been there and has been one of the few things to keep me gong at times and to make me smile he will be missed.  Hopefully he is sitting on a big blue shed in the sky.