Whenever staff become ill, it can be hard to sustain one's feline needs. Such was my plight this week! My humans, whom I naturally expect to lavish me with adoration, appear to have been thus pre-occupied, coughing and spluttering to great effect. Nevertheless, I am heartened to know that I am not alone in my woeful circumstances. Siberian Sabina asks, 'How do I know when my staff are unwell? I find it difficult to recognise the difference between a lazy householder, and a human with the flu.'... Sign in to see full entry.