{"id":532,"date":"2009-07-13T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larelle.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/13\/photos-from-the-archives-the-gremlin-from-the-kremlin"},"modified":"2009-07-13T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T19:05:00","slug":"photos-from-the-archives-the-gremlin-from-the-kremlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"Photos From The Archives – The Gremlin from The Kremlin"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n\"Media_httpfarm4static_cteqs\"\n<\/div>\n

Chrissy046<\/a>, originally uploaded by Larelle_M_R<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

This is my favourite picture of Chrissy as a kitten. I think we’ve had her only a few days when this photo was taken. The photo would date around mid February 2000. <\/p>\n

I’d been in the UK seven months. I missed my Oz cat, Tiger, like crazy and *SO* wanted to have a cat here. Obviously being in a rented property we were not meant to have pets. But I worked it all out and ‘gently’ persuaded Em to take a chance on us getting a kitten. <\/p>\n

Early in February (the 10th, to be exact), 2000 I was at the local laundrette doing some tumble drying. The local rag was there to read and so I looked in the classifieds section to see if there was anything under pets. To my joy there were some kittens listed for sale in the nearby town of Dunstable for £10 a pop. <\/p>\n

I had my mobile with me, so I called the number there and then. The lady said she had one female (Chrissy) left. I asked her to please keep her for me and I would pick her up that evening. <\/p>\n

That night we went over to Dunstable to collect Chris. She was sitting on the ladies lounge with her mum. There were 3 or 4 of her brothers all around in the loungeroom. They were all playing while she was sitting contently with her mum. I remember seeing her and falling instantly in love with her. She was gorgeous!<\/p>\n

We paid the £10, thanked the lady, and were on our way home with our new bundle of fluff. I was in raptures. <\/p>\n

And the rest, as they say, is history. Chrissy will be 10 on December 1st, 2009.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chrissy046, originally uploaded by Larelle_M_R. This is my favourite picture of Chrissy as a kitten. I think we’ve had her only a few days when this photo was taken. The photo would date around mid February 2000. I’d been in the UK seven months. I missed my Oz cat, Tiger, like crazy and *SO* wanted … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Photos From The Archives – The Gremlin from The Kremlin”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,117,234,239],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-blogging","tag-family","tag-pets","tag-pictures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}