My last blog post received quite the rapturous reception from my followers. As a tribute to the vigilante cats, I asked Bing’s AI bot to create a picture of them, along with their comrade Hunter, Scourge of Rottweilers (centre). I hope that they are strutting around kitty heaven looking just like this:

Yes, these were their actual fur colours.

In other news, if you followed Le Blog through lockdown, you will know that Louis Catorze was an absolute menace during my online lessons. He had a fondness for my Year 11 class in particular and, as soon as the clock hit 3:10 on Thursday afternoon, he would appear from wherever he was and wreak absolute havoc.

On Saturday I attended a Zoom talk about witchcraft and, naturellement, given his past form, I expected utter carnage. Luckily, on this occasion, it was one of those live streaming events in which the viewers remained invisible, so I didn’t really care what he did. We could have had a full-on heavy metal concert in the living room and neither the speaker nor the other viewers would have had the slightest idea.

However, to my absolute astonishment, Catorze was quiet. He listened intently for a while, then dozed off, with his ears occasionally flicking. Either he recognised these as his people and wanted to hear what they had to say, or he couldn’t be bothered to make trouble as there was zero embarrassment in it for me. Où est le fun in that?

Here he is, deeply engrossed in every single witchy word. Should I expect (more) trouble later?

I bet I’ll find an eye of newt and a toe of frog on my bed tomorrow.
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22 responses to “Ce n’est pas sorcier”

  1. M - avatar

    hehehe – Louis Catorze has Witch in his blood. Just. Like. Ramses.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      I wouldn’t expect anything less from either of them!

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  2. Lou Carreras avatar

    A good portrayal of the Three Cats of the Apocalypse.
    But for Louis I suggest that he saw it as a continuing education class.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Did the three of them ever go around together?

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      1. Lou Carreras avatar

        Being that the universe still exists, thankfully, no. I can only imagine the trouble the three together might have caused – a “catopcalypse.”

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          It would have been quite a sight! 🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛

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          1. Lou Carreras avatar

            Imagine a world full of Clancy’s ,Hunter’s, Jean A Foot’s and Louis Catorze’s…doing what they do best. Sad…

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            1. iamthesunking avatar
              iamthesunking

              I wish the four could have met up!

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            2. Lou Carreras avatar

              The world still exists; calamity avoided!

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            3. iamthesunking avatar
              iamthesunking

              What could possibly have gone wr- oh, never mind.

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  3. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    Louis is not the only one who likes disrupting online lessons.
    During the lockdown, my granddaughter’s English teacher’s dogs used to come say hello to the kids. One of them, Nova, a female Dogue de Bordeaux is accustomed to drooling, and believe me, a dog full of saliva in front of a screen can wreak havoc too..

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      I had to Google “Dogue de Bordeaux”! They’re quite scary-looking beasts!

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    2. mmechapeau avatar
      mmechapeau

      After the lockdown, the English teacher would have liked to introduce the dogs to the kids for real but the school management didn’t allow her to do it.

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      1. iamthesunking avatar
        iamthesunking

        Oh no, what a shame! It could have been managed perfectly safely (assuming safety was what they were worried about).

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  4. Dr. CaSo avatar

    I love the picture, how funny! I can totally imagine Miss Penny Poupoune Chérie in that group 🙂 As for behaving during your lesson, I am sure Louis was learning, mine de rien, everything he needs to know about witchcraft. Yes, you should expect the worse now 😉

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Well, thank you for your reassuring last line. 🤣🤣🤣 You have a Chat Noir, too, so you won’t be far behind me.

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  5. Kate Crimmins avatar

    If his havoc isn’t public, what’s the point of doing it?

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Well, yes. This was almost certainly his school of thought, too!

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  6. mcmcneil1 avatar
    mcmcneil1

    We love the virtual representation of the Vigilante Cats !

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      I wish I could have seen them in real life!

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  7. cat9984 avatar

    Maybe he went to sleep because he wasn’t learning anything new. (Love the picture of the vigilantes.)

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      I don’t doubt that for a minute!

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