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
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The Long-Distance Moggy
by admin - 21:06 on 18 June 2011
Today's been an exhausting one for The Rural Retreat's feline resident, whose stroll this morning turned into a long-distance epic.
Since recovering from her Near Death Experience Bess has continued to enjoy taking Matchgirl and me for a short walk that usually reaches halfway before the top of the lane beside the Retreat. Today, however, she was in adventuresome mood.
At the top of the lane she continued past the decaying steading, where we checked out the swallows' nests in the barn (all empty), then turned on to the track that separates fields from the grounds of our distant neighbours in the stately Adam house. At one point she even broke into a scamper.
The track finishes at the far end of the woodland we sometimes visit, and from where we completed a circuit of around three-quarters of a mile – a fair hike for a small, middle-aged moggy with a suspect hip. The woodland section was enlivened by an encounter with a hedgehog (not the one we've seen in the garden – this was smaller) who bumbled on to the path ahead of us, stopped and sized us up, shrugged, and continued unfazed into the undergrowth.
I had the Pentax with me but had no opportunity for a good snap. The local hoggies are lightning.
Back at the Retreat we expected Bess to take it easy, but after a drink and a snack she shouted at us until the door was opened. She wasn't out long before she returned to flop exhausted on the sofa, where she slept all afternoon and evening. With luck she might even let us sleep through the night.
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