Why the owl and the pussy cat?

Well, it seemed like everyone else had strange titles for their blogs.......... 

So, ....it was mainly inspired by the cake, mentioned in a very early blog, that a lovely friend made for us for our wedding 'do'.

I know you may have seen this, but it's very relevant here

And why did she make this cake?, (yes, I know a lot of you know all this, skip to next posting)
Time to own up to the BIG thing that's happening in our life while all the small stuff carries on.
The reason she chose this theme is that our plan for the last year and a half has been to buy a boat and sail off round the world...well...maybe just up and down the coast a bit to start with!
It has not happened yet.
The 'Grand plan' was
1) sell house 2) buy smaller house and boat 3) rent out house and sail off into the great blue yonder....ish
So we've done all the right things,
house on the market tick, RYA sailing courses theory and practical tick, read lots of books tick, looked at lots of boats tick,
 No one seems to want to buy our nice house in a very beautiful location.



view from our bedroom window, much like view from all windows

 So current life plan Plan B is
1) buy a smaller/older (cheaper) boat   2) sail as and when we can    OR 2b) rent out house and sail off into the great blue yonder, again.
Boat buying is a minefield. At the moment we are 'negotiating' over this one.



This is a Barbican 30 and is 30' long if that means anything to you.

 I like this boat. I've liked several of the boats we've looked at but this one has a nice name and it fit's my blog title because it's green, well bits of it are. As I've called my blog The Owl and the Pussy Cat, who as you know sailed away, I now feel we 'have' to buy a boat, preferably a green one!
Vince has other, MUCH more practical reasons for liking the boats he likes such as they will be safe in a blow, will sail well, not sink etc.

This boat saga has been going on for some time now, 18 months in fact. So if I don't write anymore about it it for a while it will be safe to assume that nothing much has changed and we didn't buy the nice green boat called 'Cloudberry'
There, I've got that off my chest now.


SO, other reasons I like The Owl and The Pussy Cat...

1) We have two cats that are sometimes in danger of becoming substitute children.
2) I was once called 'the cat that walks by herself', which I liked..
3)As a child I made up a logo of two circles and an upside down triangle that represented the face of an owl. Early this year I had owls and owl images recurring in my life over about a week. I thought it was a sign that I should resurrect the childhood logo to use in my creative work.
 4)We were given a jar of honey on our wedding day.
5) Vince plays the guitar.
6)Vince writes poetry (occasionally) and I write some stuff that's vaguely like poetry.
7)We eat quinces in the autumn picked from a tree just down the road.
8) We aren't too familiar with pigs, tho we have both reared them before...and I've put rings in their noses
9)Turkeys, hmm..I've done turkey plucking, and there was a couple at our wedding party who rear turkeys for Christmas...
are the links getting a little tenuous for you yet?
10)My wedding ring isn't from a piggy wigs nose, but it is second hand, and I got it today hooray, I can look officially married now!....