The Black Cat (FINAL update)

Name: The Black Cat, also known as iCat, Pachat, Claws, Jaws and Paws.

Preferred habitat: Anywhere in the house and on the roof of the car.

Politics: Far Right

Religion: Roman Cat Holic

Clubs: The Black Cat Club, Drones, the Cathenaeum

Favourite song: Where are the Boys of the Old Brigade? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vw98KKdPt4

Favourite group: Mitch Miller and the Gang

Favourite film: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Favourite colour: Black

Keywords: Frabjious, Magnificat, sly, devious, cagey, covert, furtive, guileful, scheming, shifty

E-mail: pachat@catmail.com

You might think that, after a week's absence on my part, iCat would be pleased to see me. Not a bit of it. After a perfunctory meow, he loped upstairs, sat down in MY chair and settled down to watch the World Cup.

I never thought I would stoop to devoting a post to a cat, preferring to leave that sort of thing to the specialists. Like most of the other animals in Aubigny (and quite a few of the villagers as well), Pachat may best be described as a nasty piece of work. Pachat, I said, what's the big idea? You can't expect to come muscling into people's houses without so much as a by your leave and expect to be welcomed with open arms. The real world doesn't work like that. So get real and wise up, iCat. The only answer I got was a sort of purring noise....