Here you go: first look at the cutest ball of fluff ever. I am lean­ing towards Phoenix as a name, but also temp­ted by Ishtar and Jezebel.

She is cur­rently curled up on my chest and purring like a mad thing. She was spoil­ded at the dinner party (which was fab, thanks HEAPS raven_ for help with latke making and for gor­geous fruit com­pote which went down a treat with the blintzes. We intro­duced mireille21 to all sorts of yid­dish evils includ­ing borscht with sour cream. Yum!)

Here’s the pic of Astrid’s odo­meter too, for the record…

Happy sol­stice every­one! Sol­stice is offi­cially at 6.04pm tomor­row even­ing (Monday) so if anyone would like to do a ritual, mail me.