Maurice of Montpelier Terrace
I chanced upon this old picture just now. It was taken in Brighton in 1989, and it shows me with Maurice, a gorgeous Burmese cat who was a resident of the basement flat in which I lodged for a while, in Montpelier Terrace. This photograph was taken in the little yard at the rear of the property, from which Maurice frequently tried to escape.
Burmese are wonderful cats, very talkative and full of personality, but their claws are like needles!
In the Dark 
May 4, 2013 at 7:19 pm
Burmese are seriously intelligent. Did he deign to give you a hand with the physics?
May 4, 2013 at 7:30 pm
No, but he was a master of the disdainful look. I think he considered my work too trivial to be worthy of his attention. He was also extremely partial to sardines.
May 4, 2013 at 7:55 pm
i always thought some of your papers were a bit fishy
May 4, 2013 at 8:21 pm
I admit have sometimes made unjustified use of Poisson statistics..
May 4, 2013 at 8:32 pm
No need to carp.
May 4, 2013 at 9:54 pm
I daren’t suggest that Smail’s papers are all codswallop…
May 4, 2013 at 9:50 pm
having followed you a while, nice to know you’re in my home town – you’re better looking now!
May 5, 2013 at 2:15 pm
If you like cat breeds with big personalities, you should try
Bengals……..entertainment guaranteed !
May 5, 2013 at 5:13 pm
Yes they’re amazing too! A friend has two of them.