Counterfeit cats

Apparently it’s Christmas, a day I have managed to mainly disregard for many years. Lunch was my usual plate of noodles and I was planning something equally festive for this evening. However, fate intervened when I received this from the creator of PattayaDaze:

Whilst I appreciated the festive message, I was left with a lingering suspicion that he may have based his creation on something I had made a day earlier. Not so, he insisted, it was his original work and he had the cats to prove it. Or he had had the cats but they had mysteriously disappeared during the night. Or something.

We agreed that the matter needed to be discussed and decided to meet for Xmas dinner. Neither of us have the wallet or the decent clothing to facilitate a visit to the smarter joints in town; so we went to that bastion of unpretentious food; Greg’s Kitchen.

There was a bowl of soup with a loaf of bread on the side, turkey and all the trimmings, finished off with a fruity tart thing with ice cream; after which we were totally stuffed, which I vaguely recall is the necessary outcome of an Xmas meal.

There were also a couple of beers and much discussion on the state of the world economy and other weighty matters. In fact we never got round to the issue of the counterfeit cats. I will just have to accept that we both have very similar creative tastes, and identical cats; even though his are currently missing.

As it is the festive season, I have decided to put aside our differences and offer the following poster to PattayaDaze so he may recover his cats:

Comments 🔗

2011-12-26 | Grant says

Spike, the photo of your christmas turkey dinner (short pause for envy/simmering resentment) is curiously out of focus. Surely amongst your large collection of lenses you have one with Automatic Alcohol Compensation… Don’t forget that it’s boxing day today, in view of their recent cooperation you really should pop out and buy the cats a new one, they’ve earned it!

2011-12-26 | Spike says

Narrow depth of field due to low light. Part of the filling and one pea are in focus (just). Excellent idea on the box, especially if it contained a new toy for me before I gave it to the cats.

2011-12-26 | Grant says

Oh I’m so glad the problem was technical - it’s eccentric enough photographing your dinner at the best of times, let alone in a busy restaurant, changing lenses and popping off flashbulbs… Shall look forward to photos of happy pussies in their new box in due course.