The Cats

I have been trying for some time now to teach Gilbert & Moochie both Spanish and French. The lessons began when Whiskers started printing the flavours of their cat food pouches in numerous languages on the back of the packet. A bit of poulet here, a sachet of lapin there and the odd morsel of canard or ton every now and again. Quite straight forward stuff really.

We rapidly progressed to more tricky conversational French but the Spanish was somewhat restricted. I decided that they (especially Moochie) needed some more vocabulary work and thought that the best way to work through this and to improve their all round skills was to invest in small desks so that they had a dedicated work space.

It was only when I tried to get them to write a short composition that I realised there was a problem. The cat's are really bad at writing - due to the whole thumb thing. I had to call the whole thing off and ebay the desks.

We're now back to chatting over dinner and I think everyone feels much better about it generally. Less pressure all round.

This morning Gilbert said "Le petit déjeuner était merci délicieux vous. Pouvons-nous avoir la souris la prochaine fois ?"

I replied "Vous êtes un chat ingrat. J'enlèverai vos cheveux."