cats-in-a-hedge – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:02:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg cats-in-a-hedge – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 The First Dawn Chorus; The First Cat-in-a-Hedge Incident https://shepline.com/2010/04/08/the-first-dawn-chorus-the-first-cat-in-a-hedge-incident/ https://shepline.com/2010/04/08/the-first-dawn-chorus-the-first-cat-in-a-hedge-incident/#respond Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:02:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/the-first-dawn-chorus-the-first-cat-in-a-hedge-incident/ I was woken at 5.30 this morning by the most sonorific dawn chorus – it was beautiful. And the day that followed it was the most perfect, gorgeous Spring day that one could imagine. Sadly it was also a day for working which was a bit of an annoyance but it was the most perfect reminder of the Spring that is to come. When I got home, the kids of the neighbours on the other side (ie. not Beavis’n’Butthead – who incidentally woke Emma up at 2.30 as they noisily left in two cars) were having a barbeque and party. From the moment I got home I knew that there was something funny up…

I sat in the garden for a bit and wrote a couple of pages to Mr Tumnal – a man who has curiously joined the ranks of the FaceBookers – before we pottered in the garden and had our dinner. By which time, all the cats except for Bella had come in and had their dinner. I tried callng but to no avail, and just before 9 o’clock I headed out for a preambulation around the estate in search of a missing cat. I found her, Bella, as bold as ever in her usual place in a bush out by the ringroad. I had to call Emma for backup and together we coaxed her home. I had hoped that she had lost the habit but it seems to be a Spring and Summer thing, and I fear that this might be only the first cat retrieval of the season.

I can’t help thinking that the hullabaloos, making the nacket that they were, were in part to blame for Bella getting scared and going off. B**st**ds!

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