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
“Thanks, I hate it”: Feline Fans Find a Way to Turn Their Cats Into Hoomans
Using ChatGPT, and the Results Are Purrfectly Ridiculous
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We've all been there, feline fam. We've all wondered what our cats would be
like if they were hoomans. Well, we know what they would *be like* if they
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