Long green things

[desperance]

So I was standing there at the chopping-board slicing up a courgette, as a man very well might who was planning on making a courgette-and-manchego tortilla for his lunch; and Mac was getting excited, stretching up and trying to claw himself a piece (I swear he's grown, since he arrived; he didn't use to be able to hook a paw over the edge of the chopping-board, I'm sure), and we had this whole conversation about how courgette is not cucumber, and I know he likes cucumber but a courgette is not the same thing at all, for all that they may look alike to an eager little cat, and didn't he have a nose, couldn't he smell the difference...?

And like that; and then of course a piece fell on the floor because that just always happens, and -

Yup, you know what I'm going to say. You have always known it.

Nom-nom-nom.

Add courgette to the list of Mac's Favourite Veggies. Actually, you can add zucchini too, that may be cheating but it'll give us something beginning with z, which is always a thrill.

Comments

Re: Cat reincarnation

[desperance.livejournal.com]

something nasty to do with wicker baskets

Ooh, now - I bought myself a wicker laundry basket a couple of years back (oddly - or not so oddly? - during a briefly cat-free period), and since The Boys moved in on me, they have quite separately taken it upon themselves to destroy it. Baz had a good year of chewing at it, and Mac has now taken on that mantle with a vengeance. D'you suppose...?

Re: Cat reincarnation

[footlingagain.livejournal.com]

Ooh - sounds feasible. Most cats hate wicker, in my experience, which I'm convinced gives even more weight to my theory.