coincidence?
We are due to go to Leeds this afternoon - we have tickets for a Show of Hands gig (yay!), and are also going into Ikea to pick up a few bits (yay! meatballs!).
However, we did wonder last night whether we might have to cancel … Ron wasn’t too well - he was doing an odd thing with his mouth, clicking his teeth and shaking his head; we think he had something caught in his throat. He hurtled through to the food bowl and ravened when we put fresh meat down, though, so I tried not to worry. And this morning, he seems heaps better.
It set me thinking though. We’ve had to cancel a fair few Outs due to cats:
- In Feb 2000, Iggy had a nasty respiratory illness, causing us to not go to see Yes in Cardiff
- in October 2003, we had a weekend in Cornwall booked for Pete’s birthday; Zool was killed by a car just a couple of days beforehand, and we didn’t have the heart to go
- again in Feb 2000, we lost Shrimp, and cancelled a dinner in London that we’d been looking forward to
- in October 2008, we were due to go and see Jeremy Hardy do a standup gig in Bristol - we came downstairs at 5 p.m. and realised that Aliss was dying, and stayed at home with her.
Odd how these memories stay with you …
Mirrored from the Tribe.