Côtes de Grandlieu from J.Choblet.
Sustainable agriculture and pleasant with it. Not a wimpy example. Melon, wet wellingtons perhaps. Better than your average Muscadet Boo-Boo.

My cats name is Boo, he loves melon.

Why Boo?

We're working on getting a new cat. (Pete didn't want one, and we all did - there's quite a bit of that, with a lot of blue cheese eating, etc) I now know exactly what I want. We have a brown Burmese - short, dark brown fur and fine features, relatively small. I want another, in lilac. I know, the colour shouldn't be the main thing, and it isn't really, except that it is, in fact.

Lilac is what girls would call taupe and boys would call grey/beige. Short hair and the colour is constant (ie no dark ears) and very tasteful.

Of course now we need a new name and that's a whole can of worms because Amelia (14) has already chosen the name and cannot even consider an alternative.

The brown one is called Minki (she looks like mink) and A wants to call number 2 Faux or Fo or Pho. Minki n Faux is nice.

However, I feel the need to have a slightly wine-related name and I think one syllable is good.

Any ideas. Yquem is just ridiculously pretentious, as is Margaux. In fact, I can think of few single syllable wine names.

Cos (short for because?).

The lilac colour could remind of nero d'avola or ripasso, but nero sounds too black and she'll be pale beige, so a white wine name, or dessert.

Furmint?

A friend has just called hers PX, which is nice, but definitely dark.

Passito?

If it's a boy I quite like the idea of a ludicrously macho name like Brett.

Bacchus?

Gris?

Moelleux?

What about Umami

Verdot?

Anyone?

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mel

He's around fifteen years old now. When he was a kitten he would hide and wait for me to approach, and then jump out, standing on his back legs with his front legs raised above his head. It was as if he was shouting 'boo'. The name stuck.

He got hit by a car when he was around two, lost an eye and nearly didnt make it. Hes still here now, and still likes to hide behind things waiting for you to walk past. The problem is, with only one eye he doesnt realise that two thirds of his body is on show, giving him away. Plus he doesnt jump anymore, just waits for you to get close enough and then has a swipe at your ankle. Ill miss him when he goes.

Name for your cat? Syrah. A cool name for a cat if ever there was one.

wrong colour, surely?

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mel

Obviously "Condom" is out and likewise "scheist". "Vulture", no. "Tache" peut-etre, or maybe "Tain".

Eureka..."Félines"...c'est ça...rien ne va plus...

Sorry, I wasnt paying attention. Fizz?

I like mine still.

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mel

Clos, as in Clo, as short for Cloe.

Presumably with a short haired blue, you would like a little girl with a long elegant neck and long legs. We have a 2/3rds blue girl, she keeps the birds off the raspberries and strawberries and will eat mice, jack the ripper style.
But the boy ones - be careful
(the boy blue/lilac taupe ones tear your funiture and curtains to pieces) They climb up to the ceiling on curtains and leap off door frames - like squirrels. Don't go there unless you are trying to get rid of rats in a barn.

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Many years ago I had an almost feral cat called Teeps. Tuddy pat backwards. Came home every couple of weeks. Feed, cuddle, sleep, feed. cuddle, sleep...gone...bits missing, wounds...eat, sleep, cuddle, gone...etc

The kittens we're seeing on Sat are girls. Thanks for advice as wasn't bothered either way.

Like Clos but daughter has friend called Chloe, also called Clo, so that's not possible.

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mel

Check out this cute cat...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7919495.stm?ls

not a word that I'd use.

No, not for me.

http://www.freewebs.com/irishcats/1bjarki.jpg

perfect! (refuse to bow to cat-related spelling)

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