Dear Janet
As you know you are just about my favourite thing on the planet and stroking you is right up there with ‘taking off in a plane’ and ‘laughing until a bit of sick comes up’ in my top ten things to do. However I would like to stress that I am quite capable of reading a newspaper and stroking you at the same time. If you want to sit on my lap that is absolutely fine, I can still read the paper if it is beside me on the chair, it only becomes difficult to multitask when you are