Well I was "shorty-pants" at school, Dave. Bastard northerners... All our cats have been named after puddings, though the connection is often a private family joke... We've had a Pud, a Sago, a Fig, a Mousse, a Toots (tootie-fruitie) a Monty (?) and now a Polly (derived from roly-poly a la jam, a reference to the rather rotund shape she was when we first acquired her).

Mrs Steve's gone to bed so I'll ask her about "Monty" tomorrow!

In 2002 I got a photo of Toots and me in the Guardian weekend mag... Now there was a cat...