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2 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>March</strong> 4 <strong>2021</strong><br />
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Mural recreates history...................................... 10<br />
Big cheese in music scene..........................12<br />
Roadworks frustrate...........................................17<br />
Life as a drag queen...........................................19<br />
Mayor’s column.......................................................21<br />
Letters..............................................................................22<br />
ECan column............................................................24<br />
Gardening....................................................................26<br />
Senior Living..............................................................27<br />
Puzzles............................................................................28<br />
City2Surf...........................................................29 & 34<br />
Sport...........................................................................30,31<br />
Drivesouth....................................................................33<br />
Classified.............................................................. 34-39<br />
Gig guide..................................................................... 39<br />
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Flufty returns home after<br />
two years<br />
• By Matt Slaughter<br />
TIM NICHOLSON now<br />
believes in miracles after<br />
his family’s cat Flufty<br />
came home after two years<br />
missing.<br />
Flufty disappeared from<br />
his Beckenham home in<br />
<strong>March</strong> 2019 and after a sixmonth<br />
search Nicholson,<br />
and his wife Zarene, gave up<br />
hope of finding Flufty alive.<br />
But, on Saturday Nicholson<br />
heard meowing at the<br />
back door.<br />
It was Flufty, looking surprisingly<br />
well fed, but happy<br />
to see Nicholson.<br />
“He looks pretty healthy,<br />
he’s eating okay, he’s not<br />
skinny or anything, he’s got<br />
a little bit of matted fur,”<br />
Said Nicholson.<br />
Nicholson said it is a<br />
“complete mystery” where<br />
Flufty has been for the last<br />
two years.<br />
Flufty’s return has brought<br />
joy to Zarene, who Nicholson<br />
described as “a crazy cat<br />
lady and proud of it.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> family’s oldest cat<br />
Mr Mr died just a few<br />
months ago.<br />
REUNITED: Flufty returned to the Beckenham home<br />
of Zarene and Tim Nicholson on Saturday after being<br />
missing for two years. <br />
He said his adult children<br />
Jason and Shavahn Nicholson,<br />
could hardly contain<br />
their excitement when they<br />
heard Flufty was home.<br />
Said Nicholson: “He was<br />
actually my son’s cat, and as<br />
soon as my son heard . . . he<br />
just dropped the phone and<br />
he was in his car and he was<br />
around here. I’m surprised<br />
he didn’t get a speeding<br />
ticket on the way over.<br />
“My daughter drove up<br />
from Timaru yesterday<br />
[Sunday] to come and see<br />
him. So yeah, everybody’s<br />
wrapped.”<br />
Since being home, Nicholson<br />
said Flufty has been very<br />
affectionate and is spending<br />
most of his time in his and<br />
his wife’s bedroom.<br />
Flufty is yet to take a<br />
liking to their new kitten<br />
Ratbag, which they got after<br />
he vanished.<br />
“A few people have put the<br />
theory forward that he may<br />
have been asleep in someone’s<br />
car, or been picked up<br />
and taken out of town. We<br />
will never know,” Nicholson<br />
said.<br />
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