Pickle's First Day Out

Many years ago (it seems) my first web site was one I made for my cat, Jenny. It was my way of teaching myself HTML, though I put it together with Adobe PageMill, which at the time seemed like a revolution in web design. The site was a joke (in more ways than one), but Jenny got emails from all over the world (which made me worry, somewhat) and at one point was getting more emails than me...

Anyway, Jenny, like PageMill, has gone to a better place. What made me think of this is that a friend told me yesterday that she had found that site while looking my name up on the web! I'm quite surprised - I haven't found it, and I can't think why it would still be around. How worrying to contemplate going back to my first fumblings and be confronted with them - please, God, no.

Recently I overcame my grief at Jenny's passing and got a new cat, Pickle. She's two years old but had never been outside as her previous owners had a top-floor flat. So I got her vaccinated and put a microchip in her in case she gets lost, and over the past few weeks she has been venturing out. She's still very timid, particularly out the front which can be quite busy and noisy. But she loves the back garden which is small and entirely enclosed by high walls, so it's quite safe.

Remembering Jenny's site made me think it was time to give Pickle a token presence in cyberspace, so for those of you who like such things, here's a short movie of Pickle's First Day Out. Enjoy!