© Adrian Mugridge (2018)
Cars and Cats
Cars
Something to spend your money on…
You
have
to
spend
your
money
on
something,
so
I
spend
a
lot
of
mine
of
cars.
When
I
was
23
I
bought
myself
a
Lotus
Esprit
S3,
which
I
could
ill
afford.
I
kept
that
for
4
years,
then
got
myself
a
new
shaped
Turbo.
I
only
kept
that
for
2
years
and
then
traded
up
to
a
much
more
modern
Esprit
GT3.
6
years
went by and that got swapped for my final Esprit, a Sport 350.
So
when
I
decided
on
no
more
Lotuses
I
changed
it
for
a
Noble
M12
3,
which
is
not
a
very
practical
car
(no
boot
for
example)
but
still
I
drove
it
for
6
years
until
it
went
for
the
much
more
practical
(and
staggeringly
boring)
Aston
Martin
Vantage.
It’s
a
car
I
never
really
got
on
with,
so
18
months
later
I
sold
it
back
to
the
dealer
where
I
bough
it
from
and
bought
myself
a
Nissan
GT-R,
which
I’ve
now
had
for
just
over
4
years.
It’s
practical
and,
much
more
to
the
point,
it’s
not
in
any
way
boring.
And
in
that
time
I’ve
made
some
changes
to
it
which
makes
it
feel
almost
like
buying
a
new
car.
And
so
currently
I’ve
no
plans
to
change
it,
and
even
if
I
did,
I
don’t
know
what
I’d
change
it
for
anyway.
As
well
as
the
Lotuses,
Aston,
Noble
and
Nissan,
I’ve
also
had
a
number
of
shopping
cars;
a
Micra,
2
Clios
and
a
Fiat
500.
When
I
got
my
Fiat
500,
I
then
started
noticing
just
how
many
of
the
little
chaps
there
on
the
road
-
they
are
everywhere.
But
then
they
are
actually
a
good
car
to
drive.
I’ve
had
that
for
about
3
years
and
I’ve
no
plans
to
sell
it
since
it
does
everything
I
want
it
to do.
Cats
Something to stroke…
Over
almost
the
last
20
years
we’ve
owned
3
cats,
Boo, Willow and Cassie.
Boo
was
a
neighbour’s
cat
that
wondered
in
the
house
one
day
and
moved
in
with
us
(with
the
blessing of her previous owner).
When
Boo
died,
we
adopted
Willow,
a
very
different
cat
from
Boo.
Unfortunately
she
became
very
ill
and
had to be put down.
So
now
we
have
Cassie
the
cat.
She’s
still
very
young
and
a
bit
nutty.
She’s
the
youngest
cat
we
have
owned
and
it’s
interesting
to
see
how
she
keeps
on
changing as she gets older.