Thread: Herbie is here!

Hi Herbie and Welcome ♥

He is stunning! He also look like he is going to be a big boy .....

I imagine people stop and stare when he's in the garden. If you start selling tickets you'll soon be able to give up your day job.

Hehe! Funnily enough, we have some regular visitors to the garden gate. Larry is the gatekeeper and he is always at the gate to speak to callers. Herbie is his willing assistant and Monty hangs back a little. Two schoolboys come every day at 8.15 on their way to school, so while I'm getting ready in the kitchen, I hear the boys at the gate talking to the lads. I scared them to death once by going down the path and saying hello myself. I said 'do you know what sort of cats they are', and they didn't know, so I told them, and the older one said 'wow, they're so big...we've just got a normal cat at home'. Larry plays footsie with them through the gaps in the wall.

There's also a Polish family down the road with a little boy of about 3 who asks if he can 'go and see the cats', so sometimes he appears at the gate with his mother and we all say hello. My friend's 11-year-old daughter is always pestering her mum and dad to ask if they can pop in on a weekend 'to see Larry' even though they have 3 cats of their own at home. My OH works from home (music production) and sometimes we think that customers return because they want to see Larry & co again.....Some of the musicians are young and away from home and miss their family cats, so they like being around ours. We had one strapping young lad at the weekend with his trendy hairdo and skinny jeans, picked up Herbie for a cuddle and called him 'Munchkin' - I had to laugh it was so sweet.