{"id":2269,"date":"2013-01-27T16:41:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T16:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2021-07-12T21:26:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T20:26:48","slug":"a-fight-and-some-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=2269","title":{"rendered":"A Fight and Some Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I’d arranged to meet the Willenhall Lad for a beer, as the rather fine Pretty Bricks<\/a> had a beer festival one. First, however, was the task of programming the fancy catflap<\/a>. This should be a simple task. Remove catflap from door to prevent unwanted escapes, set into program mode, and wave near cat. The whole process took around a minute with Meowth<\/a>. This was, of course, misleading. Meowth was famously laid back and compliant, not usually traits associated with cats.<\/p>\n

Our new children<\/a> were not feeling cooperative. Three quarters of an hour, two stressed parents, two very, very stressed cats, a severe loss of temper on my part, and some nasty injuries later:<\/p>\n

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A bruised and bitten arm: just a subset of injuries suffered in a man-vs-cat fight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We manage it. The cats have now been hiding under the bed for 24 hours. They’re quite big.powerful cats, but nervy as hell, and have a strong fight-or-flight instinct.<\/p>\n

Still, the beer and curry was nice :-). As well as the Bricks, we managed The Fountain<\/a>, The Victoria<\/a>, and The Bell<\/a>, all of which were great.<\/p>\n

Tripping running for a bus on the way home, and landing flat out in slush and grit was less so, then washing my wallet along with my coat and jeans irritated a little…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I’d arranged to meet the Willenhall Lad for a beer, as the rather fine Pretty Bricks had a beer festival one. First, however, was the task of programming the fancy catflap. This should be a simple task. Remove catflap from door to prevent unwanted escapes, set into program mode, and wave near cat. The … Continue reading A Fight and Some Beer<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}