Like all animals, Ian enjoys his food, loves to eat and I keep the food on top of the dryer in the kitchen. So here is an unself-conscious moment:

Ian is not much for superfluous eye-contact, very hard to photograph directly, he's a wary cat:

He can go way too high and need people-help: oh dear!

He'd never make a he-man lumberjack. The admiral was of course alluding to the Monty Pyton satire.
Sylvia