I suspect that all cats have a large amount of kitten in them, even if they try to pretend they don't. (And it's great fun catching out the ones who pretend they are always serene and graceful, and watching them try to convince you that you didn't just see them acting like a kitten.)

I'm glad that your change in household is going so well (and be careful with those back muscles!). We have, I think, finally put together a rather unwieldy assortment of finances that might permit us to buy a very small house here in wonderful Toronto, one of the more expensive housing markets in Canada. We'll be lucky to find a bungalow for a quarter-mil. But we will be able to keep that is toxic to us out of it, which will be priceless.

As to that long-ago email - you may think me silly, but I actually keep copies of on-going correspondence with people I value in neatly organised email folders, and I can re-send my last email to you if you want. I am a packrat about very few things, but one of them is words.