YES YES YES!  thank you very much!

I WILL get to grips with the technical stuff one day, but getting a result with that has made my day.  Thanks Bagginsbill!

Sarah

Aha!  thank you very much.  I usually enable raytracing, but I cannot recollect what, if anything, I did about bounces.  I flunked Physics....

Thank you!

Does anyone know if there's any software to turn photos of real people into textures that will fit various characters?  I've been mucking around on low-res with brute-force resizing, pasting and using clone brush to smooth the edges in but it would be nice to know if there's any kind of short-cut.  Thanks in advance....

Thank goodness!  You mean football not soccer!

Glad to hear that Ashley is settling in in her new home.  We always have a period of adjustment when we introduce a new cat.  Cats that did have problems are now settling down in front of the fire.  Yes, a fire in June, that's British weather for you!

Hope the doctors can get your thyroid sorted out.  Lots of hugs to you, your honey and your menagerie lol.

BTW it was lovely to hear about Bubba singing to hummingbirds :)

'Foster' her?  I've heard that one before from Mrs. B, that's why we have four or five cats at any one time lol.

At least in the UK we don't have to worry about health insurance, we can go to hospital and get given MRSA for free!

Very good news on the insurance Connie, you have a very special honey there!

Please go to the doc appoinment Connie, you do need to look after yourself.  Lots of hugs flying your way :)

Poor Connie, you are having troubles!  Hope the doctors appointment goes well.

BriBri has obviously fully recovered from her rooftop adventure; whether you have is an entirely different matter :).  Glad to hear that she is really settling in.  Hugs to all :)  (Our cats would send purrs if they could be bothered to get out of their dappled shade in the orchard!)

Oh dear Connie; cats, who'd have 'em?  Crazies like us I'm afraid lol.  A nice(?) piece of classic cat behaviour from BriBri, you were out of your mind with worry while she was perfectly happy!  Mom will rescue me, it's all alright!

We like to keep our cats in at night as we live on a main road, Sophie likes to stay out at night.  She has perfected a routine of purring and getting close to us but just out of reach.  If we try to grab her she bounces away, finds somewhere inaccessable, then rolls over showing her tummy!  Sophie comes in when she wants to . . .

It felt just the same after we lost Ninja; just concentrate on remembering the good times.  It's not wrong to grieve though, it's a process that you have to go through and it will take time (it took us about 2 years for Ninja). 

We are all just an e-mail or PM away if you need us.

With that amount of kawaii (cute) power I'm not surprised that BriBri's won over Bubba and your dog! :)

It's always such a relief when a new kitty is protected against feline diseases.  Glad things are working out well; hugs to everyone!

Our cats have been helping us build a new pond as we had more or less tadpole soup in our old one.