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Dirtylitterboxo
  
A new friend

Saturday, 17 April 2004

This morning was yet another gloriously sunny Spring morning
in deepest rural Norfolk. So once again I nagged,
encouraged, Vernon and Nathan that we really should make the
most of the pleasant weather to go for a short jaunt on the
bikes. I got Vernon to raise the saddle on Luigi for me, as
yesterday I found it a tad low. Saddle adjusted, we set off,
for a pootle. Nathan sped off for a fast pootle, Vernon an
intermediate pootle and yours truly a slow pootle.

Riding Luigi is really comfortable now I have the saddle to
the correct height. That, combined with birdsong in the air
and lambs in the fields, made for a lovely jaunt. Almost
back home, in the neighbouring village of Beeston, is a
small corner shop with post office. This has now become a
stopping place as outside the shop I noticed something new;
a table, chairs and parasol for shade. A new coffee stop!
Vernon, Nathan and I were the very first customers. One must
support local businesses, even though home is only a few
minutes away ;-) Vernon and I shared a cafetiere of strong,
freshly brewed coffee whilst Nathan had a glass of cola. I
then found I had a new friend. Along came a little tabby.
She meowed, she purred, and she head-butted my shins and
blinked her lovely green eyes at me whilst twitching her
white whiskers. So I gave her an ear-scritch, purred and
chirruped back at her. I then got the feline wide-eyed look
of "Good grief, it speaks cat!" which was followed by her
giving me even more head-butts with even louder purrs. This,
in turn, led to me giving her even more ear-scritches. If I
stopped for a second, I was reminded that I should continue
by her giving a little meow and putting her head in my hand.
The she decided she was going to inspect me closely and
jumped up. A cuddle resulted where I was the recipient of
multitudinous feline nose-touches and head-rubs on my cheek.
The cat is owned by the people who have the shop and she's a
rescue cat named "Torville". She is a sweet-natured little
thing and I think I've made a new friend. Torville is very
good PR for her humans' coffee shop :-)

Cheers, helen s

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Simon Mason
  
"dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers"
<wafflycathcs@aol.comcomcom> wrote in message
> The she decided she was going to inspect me closely and
> jumped up. A
cuddle
> resulted where I was the recipient of multitudinous feline
> nose-touches
and
> head-rubs on my cheek. The cat is owned by the people who
> have the shop
and
> she's a rescue cat named "Torville". She is a sweet-
> natured little thing
and I
> think I've made a new friend. Torville is very good PR for
> her humans'
coffee
> shop :-)

You've got to be careful with these animals at pubs and
cafes. On one ride I popped into a pub to get a pint of
Shandy. I was about 40 miles from home and had some cake in
my bag. A friendly dog turned up and it ended up eating
more of the cake than me, meaning I bonked on the way home!

Simon M.

Pete Whelan
  
dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers wrote:
> A new friend
>
> Saturday, 17 April 2004
>
> This morning was yet another gloriously sunny Spring
> morning in deepest rural Norfolk. So once again I nagged,
> encouraged, Vernon and Nathan that we really should make
> the most of the pleasant weather to go for a short jaunt
> on the bikes. I got Vernon to raise the saddle on Luigi
> for me, as yesterday I found it a tad low. Saddle
> adjusted, we set off, for a pootle. Nathan sped off for a
> fast pootle, Vernon an intermediate pootle and yours truly
> a slow pootle.
>
> Riding Luigi is really comfortable now I have the saddle
> to the correct height. That, combined with birdsong in the
> air and lambs in the fields, made for a lovely jaunt.
> Almost back home, in the neighbouring village of Beeston,
> is a small corner shop with post office. This has now
> become a stopping place as outside the shop I noticed
> something new; a table, chairs and parasol for shade. A
> new coffee stop! Vernon, Nathan and I were the very first
> customers. One must support local businesses, even though
> home is only a few minutes away ;-) Vernon and I shared a
> cafetiere of strong, freshly brewed coffee whilst Nathan
> had a glass of cola. I then found I had a new friend.
> Along came a little tabby. She meowed, she purred, and she
> head-butted my shins and blinked her lovely green eyes at
> me whilst twitching her white whiskers. So I gave her an
> ear-scritch, purred and chirruped back at her. I then got
> the feline wide-eyed look of "Good grief, it speaks cat!"
> which was followed by her giving me even more head-butts
> with even louder purrs. This, in turn, led to me giving
> her even more ear-scritches. If I stopped for a second, I
> was reminded that I should continue by her giving a little
> meow and putting her head in my hand. The she decided she
> was going to inspect me closely and jumped up. A cuddle
> resulted where I was the recipient of multitudinous feline
> nose-touches and head-rubs on my cheek. The cat is owned
> by the people who have the shop and she's a rescue cat
> named "Torville". She is a sweet-natured little thing and
> I think I've made a new friend. Torville is very good PR
> for her humans' coffee shop :-)
>
> Cheers, helen s
>
>
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> correct one remove fame & fortune
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>
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> tunnel is switched off--

if you train Nathan correctly, he can speed ahead and order
the refreshments for you. Works in our family.

Dirtylitterboxo
  
>if you train Nathan correctly, he can speed ahead and order
>the refreshments for you. Works in our family.

There is that :-)

Cheers, helen s

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