Happily Ever After

Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running

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Three Cats Go Into A Pub...

by admin - 21:16 on 05 January 2015

Last night, Matchgirl and I were debating what the members of The Pride would drink were they allowed in pubs. (As you can imagine, the long winter evenings inside The Rural Retreat simply fly past.)

Willow was simple: super-strength lager and alcopops would be the tipple of choice for our hooligan grey cat. Maia was equally easy to categorise: absinthe and an occasional Pernod would suit the gloomy black moggy. She'd probably smoke Gitanes and Gauloises too.

Pandora was less easy to match with a drink. Matchgirl reckons a sophisticated lady would favour white wine or a G&T, although I think she underestimates The Tabby Terror's wilder side. Real ale and a Jack Daniel's chaser is my suggestion, although Pandora would probably end up as designated driver for the others.

She'll be aboard Son of Seat tomorrow, but as the passenger on a trip to Dr Vet's (who must be sick of seeing us) so the cause of her week-long cough can be diagnosed. Laryngitis, Dr Vet hazarded after a telephone consultation.

Let's hope it's nothing worse or Matchgirl will abandon her business trip to Shetland and take the first plane home to nurse her poorly puss – which would be of great inconvenience to the invalid who is otherwise full of beans, hearty of appetite and inclined to vigorously chase and chastise Willow for all sorts of imagined slights.

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