Christmas for Cat People? 🎄🐈😻

I bought this book pictured above in July from an Op Shop but only read it last week in the lead up to Christmas.

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The day before I came across the book in July at the Op Shop, I had bought a Christmas hand towel with cats in Santa hats pictured on it from a craft shop, as I was looking for these types of hand towels to use around my home.

In Australia winter is in June, July and August, so a lot of restaurants, cafes and resorts have "Christmas in July" menus and some retailers even try to sell Christmas themed merchandise to cash in on the novelty.   

Plus, I consider myself more of a cat person than a dog person anyway.

I read the book last week and have since given it away to a street library.

And oddly enough, the two Shirley MacLaine books I put in that same street library a few weeks back were still there:-)

It would never make the 1001 books you have to read before you die list, but I liked the book as a fun Christmas read and it pointed me in the direction of the book I'm reading now, which I picked up in another street library recently and wrote about in this post -

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Why do these pets remind me of the Chinese zodiac?-)

The funny thing is that cats like the one on the book cover have been turning up everywhere I look in the lead up to Christmas:-)

Unlike other Christmas pasts -

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Next year is the Year of the Snake, by the way;-)

And this week the latest 'Vintage Video' podcast episode is about the 1982 movie 'Cat People':-)
I only stumbled across the 'Vintage Video' podcast when writing up this recent post -

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