Pictures and pig fat...

My brother and I don't go near the gate... there are bignoisythings out there... but "Thatothercat" is used to it and often vanishes across the road. He came back last night all covered in oily marks on his head... he doesn't like the bignoisythings either and I think he's trying work out how to sabotage them. We get taken in one, once a year, to have a needle stuck in us.... but that's another story. We turn right out of the gate for that one.

If you turn left, you come to a little village with traffic lights in the middle....
these seem to go on and off at random...
the staff say it is to slow down the bignoisythings...
but I think it was something that was put up for the annual Art exhibition last year and forgotten about.

The annual show is called L'Art et Lard....
which the Staffette says is pronounced "Lar et Lar"...
apparently the French like this sort of word play...
each to their own...
I'll leave it as "Pictures and pig fat".

I visited it late on Saturday this year...
I slid sideways through time....
[we can do that very successfully...
you humans think that we are dreaming]
and took a look at the outside exhibits...
there were some fish...

Redfisch

on sticks...

Whitefisch

in a pool...

Bluefisch

not very convincing...
but translating the 'blurb' it seems that they were made from the stuff your species chucks off ships...
one even said "Concentrated Washing-up Liquid" on the side.

Take a look at the hazard information.... there's an excuse not to wash up!!

Another outdoor collection was by a Japanese person, Akyo Suroshi, and one of his pieces of outdoor art was bits of tile put along the branch of a tree...

"Procession"

Another work appeared to be trying to get a tree to grow electrically...

Windpower!!

I decided to create some bits here to see if anybody noticed.... I quite like Autumn leaves so, seeing that some tidying up could be used, I created this....

Leafy spiral.

And then I saw that he'd put some sticks up between two trees.... wow! What hard work...

V for Victor...

So I thought... "Cats climb trees... I like leaves.... Hmmm? I can do better than that..."
I saw some golden autumn leaves lying on the ground [which the Staff later said were from a Tulip Tree]... I put these artistically up a bare length of ivy stem. Here is the result...

Golden Leaves

Then it started to rain.... apparently the actual event on the Sunday was a washout... but the Staff and Staffette went down there... I know that because I found all these pictures on the files here.
Going on the number of pictures I found, they seemed to have particularly liked my artwork.... so reassuring!!

Flying pig...[s]

They went out to Tours the other day... to see off a guest....
and went for a meal near the station...
a restaurant called "Le Chien Jaune".

When they came back, they were moaning about the tough steak...
I wouldn't have...
all we get is things that have about 4% 'real' meat....
the rest is probably minced up bone and pressure wash collected fibre and connective tissue...
I think you humans call the last one 'gristle'?

Mind you, the Staffette was weighing out some mince... for them, please note... this afternoon.
Having bagged it up, she saw a bit that she'd missed... so she put it in my bowl...
expecting me to go all purr-purr.... IT WASN'T EVEN COOKED!! Huh!!
Mind you, my brother then went and ate it... but he eats Voles!

Anyway...
on the Staff's picture area I found these....
and realised why the meat was tough...
the real money paid for the artist!

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Cheers, Santé, Oopyourza!!

The chase is on!!
You'll have to click on this one....
to see all the detail!