Sunny day, cold morning.

Mutterings continued.

A friend called into the Zoo this morning so we had lunch at the cafe and a nice stroll back through the Savannah in the sunshine. Watched the baby baboon for a while - he looks like a Benedictine monk with his bald head. Fortunately the hair seems to be growing back. He was poking his father with a stick, not a wise thing to do to a large male baboon with teeth that could tear steel.

The lions were asleep, of course, and one of the girls was lying on her back with her legs in the air.

There was work going on in one of the orang enclosures and all the other inhabitants were on the top of their towers keeping an eye on things. It's a good thing that orangs have so many hands as it must be difficult climbing up a tower and across ropes carrying food, a blanket and a hessian bag.

From Ananova:

"World's first restaurant for cats

The world's first restaurant for cats is about to open in New York.

The Meow Mix Café opens next week on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, reports the New York Post.

But the cafe, a promotion by the Meow Mix cat food company, will only be open for a week.

But company boss Richard Thompson it could re-open permanently and sprout franchises around the country if it's popular.

The café features tables where cats can try out six varieties of Meow Mix - and where their owners can snack on people food."

Does anybody really think that the cats will eat what is put in front of them in a restaurant? The more expensive the meal and the surroundings, the more the mogs will turn up their noses. It's sod's law when it comes to cats; what they love and will kill for today, they will completely ignore tomorrow.

And from the Oh FFS! file:

"A businesswoman has been banned from asking for 'hard-working' staff in a job ad because it discriminates against the lazy."

Whoops! "British Olympic swimmers are to have their modesty protected after discovering their swimsuits are see-through in water." You really would have thought they'd test them first, wouldn't you?