Hope Ollie is better after his little procedure.

You can put this sign on his crate:

“This cat contains no nuts.”

I’m not sure if the above is your opinion, or if you are merely stating a commonly held perception. Whatever it is, it never ceases to amaze me how people think that being on the dole is a life of ease and relaxation. You get about bloody £50 per week and, even if you get housing benefit, have you any idea how difficult it is to survive on that?! It’s impossible. I was on the dole for about six weeks once and, let me tell you, it was pretty depressing because the lack of structure, or goal, robbed me of my get-up-and-go! After six weeks! And the fucking bastards didn’t even cover my full rent, so I lost about £10 off my dole money every week.

The only benefit to this scheme would be that it will perhaps stop people from feeling so helpless and unstructured, but I find it totally offensive to say that it will help those “lazy buggers” get off their arse.

Perhaps it would be better for all of us to try to understand somebody’s situation before we come to any sort of facile, judgemental conclusion about it. Let’s face it, a lot of those “lazy buggers” are living in areas with crap schools with poor infrastructure. If you want people to work, you need to give them some hope for future.

And does he really need to wear a lampshade? When my little boy had the snip he just had two neat little bits of stitching which he totally ignored. Although I was surprised that these days they leave the little furry bits, just remove the contents …