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Cat Daddy and I are still having a magnificent time in this beautiful place, but I miss cats. And, yes, we have mooted the idea of bringing Louis Catorze with us the next time.

Me: “But what about the journey up here? All that screaming?”

Cat Daddy: “Maybe we could send him separately by DHL? They do a next-day service, don’t they?”

Actually, the vision of the DHL courier beating us up here, and then having to entertain Catorze in our holiday let whilst waiting for us, is quite funny.

We haven’t seen any cats during our whole time here, apart from a pair of kittens that we glimpsed through a window in a nearby craft village. I wanted to invite myself in and cuddle them, but then I thought that might be weird. That said, in the event of some random stranger knocking at our door and making the same request for Catorze, I would say yes and invite them to stay for dinner.

In the absence of a cat, Cat Daddy appears to have adopted a pair of seagulls as his temporary holiday pets. He looks out for them every evening and even leaves out fish scraps for them.

Me: “What are they called?”

Him: “They’re black-backed gulls.”

Me: “No, what are their actual names?”

Him, without hesitation: “Bert and Freda.” (He pronounced Freda “fray-da”, rhyming with “trader”, which is unusual but I assume this is the Scottish pronunciation.)

It’s interesting to note that, at home, Cat Daddy can’t abide large birds and only approves of small ones using our bird feeder. Maybe the holiday endorphins have made him a bit less grumpy, even if it’s just for a short while.

Catorze is still having a great time without us and, apart from his customary Zoom call disturbances and, erm, an incident with an undead mouse, he has largely been behaving himself. I have really missed him and I’m looking forward to seeing him when we return home this weekend. Only three more days until I get to scoop him up and give him a big squeeze (whilst he squirms to get away from me).

Look at him, lounging around on the chat-sitteur’s bed like he’s King of the World:

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