I am a lover of blue and white pottery. Spode 'Blue Italian' is my first love, closely followed by Wood and Sons 'Yuan'. We were lucky to be given some Yuan pieces and we then started looking out for it, so we have quite a lot now and we use it as everyday china.
Chris managed to buy a large Yuan bowl at a car boot sale last week. The bowl would have originally been part of a set for a washstand, with a jug and possibly other small pieces, such as lidded pots. He brought it home and put it on the table, until we have found a better home for it.
Look what happened!
Yes, you guessed it, the cat who visits us regularly (we have called him quite a few names; Slinky Malinki, Larry the Loafer, etc. but I have now settled on 'Cat', which he seems to respond to) has decided that the bowl is now his bed. Chris had put some comics in the bowl and I think these will have made it nice and cosy for the cat!
He has chosen many other places to sit and sleep, most usually my chair, but also the back of the sofa, my lap tray and on top of various papers - quite often what look like fairly uncomfortable places to me.
For now, the bowl is his bed. Eleanor Farjeon's poem is right!
"Cats sleep anywhere
Any table, any chair,
Top of piano, window ledge,
In the middle, on the edge,
Open drawer, empty shoe,
Anybody's lap will do.
Fitted in a cardboard box,
In a cupboard, with your frocks -
Anywhere! They don't care!
Cats sleep anywhere."
