Mrs Steelkitten herself - writer, blogger, crafter, chicken wrangler, wannabe smallholder, grow your own enthusiast and wife to....
Mr Steelkitten....postman, mechanic, model air craft enthusiast, vintage car restorer, professional welder, and all round patient, kind, good egg.
Mr Steelkitten came equipped with Sophie.....battered rescue cat, diva, matriarch, huffy, bossy, tuna-scoffing monster that dislikes anything that vies for Mr Steelkitten's attention...like Mrs Steelkitten.
Mrs Steelkitten came equipped with Fleagle....soft, heart of gold, dopey, bed-hogging, food-adoring, overweight tortoiseshell scruffbag that charms old ladies out of bacon scraps.
Together they then adopted Georgie....an stray, abused, half-feral, fun-loving, naughty little scamp with a cute ears, a button nose and sharp claws that he won't hesitate to use on poor defenceless bunnies and moles. And humans if they don't take "bugger off and leave me to sleep" for an answer.
Somewhere along the way they thought chickens were a good idea:
Oxo - top of the pecking order, domineering, tea-stealing little moo who loves eating the kitchen garden when Mrs Steelkitten's back is turned. Sophie's doppelganger in the chicken world.
Bisto - laid back, greedy, overweight lady with a vent disorder that means she spends much of her week sitting in the kitchen sink having her rear end washed. Fleagle's alter ego.
Paxo - funny little skinny scrap of a chicken at the bottom of the pecking order. Cheeky, naughty and Mr Steelkitten's favourite. Just like Georgie.
Somewhere at the back end of 2008, two fat hedgehogs made an appearance. Fozzie and Gonzo had the cats on edge for weeks but slowly they got used to the two little girls and the occasional nose prickle if they got too close and now they're just part of the furniture. DUE FOR RELEASE MAY 2009
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