Well, this is educational. I'm afraid I had never heard of Fred Urquhart and yet he was a prolific and well-received author in his day. Here's a link which includes his biographical details. This is a book of short stories which are at one time very definitely written just after the war, yet also surprisingly modern. Perhaps it is just that we are used to seeing this era depicted in films of the time, which of course were much more subject to censorship.
Urquhart knew the painters Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde. See how educational a book-a-day can be? I hadn't even realised they were real characters when I was reading the John Byrne play *blushes*
Day 297; book 287
Neat freak boyfriend wakes girlfriend up in the middle of the night
repeatedly to make her clean cat fur, she gets fed up and lies to him just
so he won't come over: 'He'll notice a single strand of cat fur and act
like it's the end of the world'
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Part of looking for your life-long partner, as a cat owner, is looking for
someone who accepts cats. That sounds simple, right? It should be. But that
is...
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