Caspurr's Caturday Art and Sunday Selfie Valentine

Hallo again, Effurryone and Shavua Tov  (a Good Week)!

Last week, We told you Mummy had a special purroject for her Caterwauling Club. Today, We can reveal the details. 

You might remember Us mentioning that, since She and her Fellow Caterwaulers can only meet via Zoom, due to the current Social Distancing Regulations, and that, because there is a limit to the nature and quality of actual rehearsals you can do on Zoom, they decided (so as not to let things get boring) that one meeting a week would be devoted to lectures on various Mewsical subjects. At some point, Mummy suggested that instead of leaving all the work to the Mewsical Director,  others might like to take turns in giving one of these lectures. Having coming up with the idea, when the Mewsical Director asked if anyone would like to volunteer, Mummy felt that noblesse oblige and that She should pick up the gauntlet.  So She offered to give a short talk on Bagpipe Mewsic. The "short talk" turned into a 90-minute lecture and Mummy felt She could easily have talked for a further 90 minutes.

Kitties, did you know that some people "joke" about Bagpipe Mewsic and compare it to the sound of a dying Cat?!
As if the sound of a Cat dying was anything to joke about!!!

Mummy agrees with Us that it sounds nothing like - though She did say it was not dissimilar, sometimes,  to the sound of a Cat out courting (mol).  Anyway, Mummy loves the sound of the Pipes - and She also learned a lot, whilst researching and  prepurring her talk. For example, effurrybody immediately thinks of Scotland when they think of bagpipes, but did you know that many other countries also have a bagpipe tradition and that there are also different kinds of bagpipes - from western Europe (Asturia, Galicia, Brittany) throughout the Balkans, the Mediterranean basin and North Africa (Malta, Libya) Asia Minor (Turkey), all the way to Russia, the Caucasus (Azerbaijan) and Iran?

Like Mummy, however, We like the Great Highland Bagpipe best.

In other Mews - here in Israel, anyone over the age of 16 can now get vaccinated against the Evil Coronavirus (although it's proving a bit of a job to purr-suade younger people that it is at all necessary).

How is it going in YOUR neck of the woods?

Now, it is time for Us (by which I mean ME, Caspurr, King of the Tigger-Tabbies) to join the Caturday Art blog hop hosted by the Wise and Beautiful Athena and her HuMum, Marie, and the Sunday Selfies blog hop hosted by the delightfully unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

In honour of Valentine's Day which falls today, I have instructed My Staff to ensure that my pawtrait is suitably embellished with appropriate symbols:

And here is the Magnificent Original:

And here is a Puzzle!

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Last - but not least - here are the Blog Hop Badges:

 

                                                        

And now, before We go, We want to wish you all a Happy Valentine's  Day - albeit a suitably Socially Distanced one.   We hope that by next Valentine's Day, things will be back to normal and We will be able to hold the Valentine's Day Ball, as in the past. That, however, depends on Us all (and Our Humans too) pulling Our Weight, working together and sticking to the rules, so We can defeat the Evil Coronavirus once and for all.

So remember - you and your Humans - to stay home unless you absolutely MUST go out, wear face-masks when you do go out, get vaccinated as soon as you can and REMEMBER TO KEEP WASHING YOUR PAWS.

Be safe. Be well. We love you all.