Good day chaps! I am extremely pleased to say we are back up and running around here! We have been in total chaos and I might even say uproar! Absolute uproar! It is unacceptable and that damned hamster is on his final warning! Any more of this sort of mishap and he’ll have to go!
I mean just because he is a rodent, and a wildcat turned up at the Holt without telling him in advance, that’s no reason to go around scampering behind things and upending experimental buckets into consoles and spreading chaos as he careered around in panic! No reason at all!! It simply won’t do! Panic is no sort of emotion for a UK Raft member, he needs to learn to control himself or his days are numbered I can tell you! We were without power for days, and the research throughout the Raft ground to a halt while people replaced frazzled connections and suchlike. I am told frazzle is a technical term. Sounds quite plausible to me!
Anyway, this brings me to some news of a much more palatable nature. Our honoured guests from the Scottish Sub Raft arrived last week. How they got here so quickly I have yet to discover, some sort of quantum teleportation device I am told. I think that was it, I was somewhat flustered by the sudden arrival of three otters and a wildcat in the foyer of the Holt. It was exactly this arrival that kicked off all of that hamster chaos. Cedric happened to be passing through the foyer at the time.
It is simply splendid to have such distinguished visitors here. It has been a first rate excuse reason to have a large feast! We had to wait until the power cam back on but the catering team absolutely outdid themselves, there was perch and salmon and minnows all around and especially for Ceannasai Lena Longtail there was a large platter of Sturgeon. It was all absolutely top notch!
The contingent is made up from Cennasai Lena Longwhiskers, Duncan McBristlewhiskers (Quantum transportation), Caliope Softfur (Wildcat Liaison) and Carothers Silvestris-Grampia (leader of the Scottish wildcat clutter). I must say they have been real troupers about all of this chaos! They pitched in with the rest of us to get the place ship shape in double quick time! We did have to keep Carothers away from Cedric though, the two didn’t seem to get on.
I am just hoping that now we have all of the power trouble sorted we can get down to business!
Now, however, I am off to the kitchen to see if there is any leftover salmon, I fancy a snack!
The Otter Chronicles 
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I promise a real update soon, in the mean time, go and have a look at what the otters are up to, they have been having some absolutely marvellous shenanigans!
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Poor Cedric – the sudden arrival of a wildcat is troubling, even if you aren’t a rodent! It’s a good job a feast was arranged so quickly or he might have become a snack! Carothers is a fine looking feline. Very regal. And I love that the collective noun for wildcats is a clutter! Delightful!
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He was quite rattled poor little Cedric!!
I think there will be quite a lot of feasting and generally making sure Carothers is fed…although I don’t think he would be so rude as to eat a member of the raft staff…
not unless Cedric is very annoying…
I love a clutter of wildcats 😊 it is an excellent word!
I think Lucy Littlepaws needs to interview Carothers… and Lena
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Carothers seems to be a very diplomatic sort so I’m sure no eating of colleagues will occur. Still, it must be a temptation – especially as Cedric is so well fed on chocolate covered seeds. He must be absolutely delicious!
Lucy LIttlepaws is the perfect person to interview them. She always gets important and interesting details out of her subjects 🙂
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I imagine Cedric looks like a lovely snack to a hungry wildcat… I think he will keep out of the way…
Lucy Littlepaws is the perfect person, she likes to know the vital stuff like favourite fish and sandwiches 😁
It is details like this that people need to know…
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They are the most important things to know! Sandwiches are of great importance, always 😀
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They are!
Another interesting thing to find out would be how they stop the bread going soggy…
I imagine that the catering department are wizards of some sort!
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There must be a knack to it! Unless they make the sandwiches and eat them very quickly after construction. Tomatoes are buggers for making the bread go soggy, too – a good excuse to protect the delicate bread with thick slices of cheese!
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They must have some sort of special baking technique… although I imagine eating them quickly helps too!
That sounds like an excellent reason to have lots of cheese… I do that, then to make doubly sure I take the tomatoes out and replace them with ham 🙂
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There is little more wonderful than the combination of cheese and ham. Either toasted or cold, it is the sandwich of the gods. And warrior goddesses!
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it certainly is!
it is perfect warrior goddess food!
Now I want a cheese and ham toastie…
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