Tim, about your cat cam. I have been looking at it periodically for some weeks now and haven't seen a cat. Am I doing something wrong?
Only when Zev feels like being on camera! Sometimes she'll sleep on camera, but it seems to depend on how the mood takes her, and in the summer at least, if there's a nice warm sunny spot in view of the camera.
I normally set the feeder to open at 1pm and 7pm, so you'll likely see her around then or very shortly thereafter. I'm sure she's worked out that the noise of the motor means food!
I'd get a second camera to replace the duff one, but she's going to the vets to be checked over whether it's time to have her spayed on Thursday. If that's OK then she'll go in for the operation shortly thereafter, and then once she's OK to be let out (presumably I'll have to let the wound from the operation heal) she'll no longer need to be closed in the room, so even less likely to be spotted on camera!
I may see if I can weatherproof the camera in some fashion, and put it on the cat flap, so you'll at least see the odd shot of a cat leaving or arriving!
Of course in the context of Forumite spotting, Kai and Zev probably don't count any more than Morphy does!