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
Cat mom and her coworkers rescue adorable kitten on their lunch break, then
deem the kitten the new office cat: ‘An office kitten will improve morale’
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At work, everyone's counting down the seconds until they can take their
lunch break and escape the cubicle lifestyle for an hour. Who would've
thought th...
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