Happily Ever After

Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running

Earlier posts can be found on Adventures of a Lone Bass Player, where this blog began life. Recent entries can be found here.

An Object of Adoration

by admin - 23:21 on 04 April 2010

Romeo is in love. It's the only explanation.

All day the interloper has followed Bess around the garden like a black-and-white shadow. He sniffs where she's been, he stares adoringly at her and copies what she does, even down to attempting to climb on to an inadequately-sized upturned flower pot when his heroine assumed her regular lookout position on hers.

Bess, who's put her recent uncertainty behind her, has resumed her role of the alpha cat. This means that she ignores his entreaties until he gets too close, at which point she stares him into submission.

Part of her must enjoy the attention. This evening she ambled around her empire, checking that all was in order, and pretended not to notice the pining puss three feet behind her every step of the way.

Matchgirl and I left them in the afternoon for an amble of our own, along the Military Road (one of Wade's) that cuts through the Forestry Commission land in the centre of the Black Isle.

There was no map available, and no useful signposts, so we guided ourselves on a circular walk through a combination of dead reckoning and guesswork. That's why we returned to Agent Cooper more than three hours after we left him, in which time we saw one horseman and two cyclists.

It's just as well we didn't get lost.

The view north from somewhere near the Military Road. Don't ask us where...

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