I am just so ready for a new wildcat

I have tremendous news!

I have just returned from a lovely meeting with Calliope Softfur, it was a just terrific change of pace from all of this spying and these underhanded, undercatered meetings that have been going on recently.

We had a fantastic plate of kippers and smoked salmon followed by an excellent Scottish delicacy called Cullen Skink, I have never heard of a skink, or a cullen for that matter, so I was extremely curious about this, but it turnes out to be a first rate haddocky soup. Bravo to the catering department for that one, and to Calliope Softfur for ordering it.

This was a much better start to the day than I was expecting after all the recent goings on, I can tell you!

Starting the day with glorious soup and the like is excellent, and even better when it is accompanied by a splendid update about the arrival of our new wildcat advisor.

As part of Lena Longtail’s Wider Wildlife Initiative programme, Otterkind has been forging closer links with other wildlife with a view to furthering relationships with mutual cooperation and knowledge exchange. Or at least that’s what Lena says, it seems a very long winded way of saying it to me but that’s by and the by.

Suffice it to say the Scottish Wildcats have confirmed that they want to send a representative down south to see if they can establish a local clutter and I suggested that the Holt would be a fantastic base of operations for such an endeavour! The wildcats are marvellous company and this chap happens to be an expert in military strategy which might just come in handy given the apparent impending apocalypse. Not that I have seen any apocalyptic signs, but it doesn’t hurt to get your wildcats in order to lend a paw if one does happen along!

Caliope informed me that Horace Felis-Sylvestris, is due to arrive within the week which is just splendid, I can tell you! The excavations team have been enlarging a fantastic set of quarters for him in the surface burrows, the ones furthest from the swimlanes as I am told that wildcats are not fond of water. The catering team has been fantastic as always and has discovered that the wildcats are rather partial to fish of all kinds so we should all get along famously!

I am absolutely ready to meet this new wildcat chap!