Manchester Cat Club Show

All in all, a pretty good day out yesterday. Ptolemy collected an adequate number of rosettes to salve his pride. We met some lovely people and found Urmiston to be quite a pleasant place, if somewhat damp. Topaz seems to be the victim of a conspiracy. Her successes at Notts and Derby have, for some reason unknown, failed to appear in 'Our Cats' and she was completely outshone by a litter sister of whose existence we were completely ignorant until yesterday. We are, to say the least, bemused. This may have been our fault for allowing Topaz to gallop around the house all night and eat a heavy breakfast. It may also be due to the personal preferences of one Mr.Fox. Or it may be that Topaz is just not as close to the breed standard as we had been led to hope.