It's unfortunate that this blog sometimes has to carry bad news as well as good. This post is for the "original" Curson cat, Gizmo, who died last night at the grand and respectable old age of 20 (something like 180 in cat years).
I think it's amazing that Gizmo whole experience of life was with us, she retained a stoic presence while much around her changed. Both cats and people came and went, but Gizmo remained a constant. She moved house three times, and proved to be an ideal flatmate when I lived in the hostel in Jesmond. She spent most of her days sitting on the windowseat presiding over the Coast Road traffic, and I think a brown smudge of her is even visible on Google Street. She was 'the last of the originals' as it were, and a proper old lady to the last.
SarahHeadsEast xx
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