Banstead postie’s Wimbledon mog blog is the cat’s whiskers

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A postman with a fondness for felines has turned his morning round into a “Street Mogs” spotting blog.

Gareth Lewis, 42, from Banstead, started documenting the many cats he meets on his rounds across Wimbledon in September capturing each mog on camera, assigning them a street name based on its location and an imaginative nickname.

Some recent examples include Fig Roll, 50 Cent, Bovril and Jean Luc.

Mr Lewis said: “I suddenly realised how many different cats I was seeing in all the streets.


“I covered lots of different walks and I’m all over Wimbledon so I just kept noticing them and thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be nice to keep a record of these’.

“Then I got the idea of cataloguing and commenting on them all.

“It’s a spontaneous thing and a gut feeling because you tend to call a cat something when you see them.

“Generally it’s based on what they look like but I find I’m naming many of them after food.”

The former Spanish teacher has now “collected” more than 60 felines since starting work as a postman earlier this year.

He added: “If there is an owner around, I will tell them what I’m doing because it looks a bit strange.

“I have had a few funny looks.

“I like to keep records and always have done.

“I used to keep diaries so I think I’m a little bit compulsive and I like to write and play around with words and have some humour.

“Really it was just for my own entertainment.”

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