Chesney came to live with us after being found up a tree, then got stuck up a few more trees, before settling down to general ridiculousness. He was not directly named after Mr Hawkes (even though he was the one and only), he was named after Chesney Battersby Brown in Coronation Street as we were watching that when his rescue took place. For two interesting years Chesney has been my constant companion, a friend but alpha-male competitor with Geoffrey cat, the only true friend Lawrence cat has ever had and the bane of Austin cat's life. They will all miss him in their own way and I will at least return to slightly less scary-cat-womanhood as I have 25% less cattage.
He was fluffy,












