Cat in Rabat

I've been reading Cat for a while and giggling is often the norm however ... I was catching up on her tonight and it has to be shared. It's more like a belly laugh.

She was writing of her lifelong affection for slippers but nothing prepared me for her quote directly from Journey Woman :

You need four maxipads to make a pair of slippers. Two of them get laid out flat, one for the right foot, the other for the left. Then the other two pads wrap around the toe area to form the tops. Tape or glue each side of the top pieces to the bottom of each of the foot parts. Decorate the tops with whatever you desire.

P.S. These slippers are not only soft and hygenic (sic), they have non-slip grip strips on the soles.

She responds to this with: Now why the hell didn't I think of that? - hygienic and non-grip! Always looking for a supplementary source of income and wanting nothing more than world peace and to become a business tycoon, I'm going to design a couple of prototypes but with a marked Moroccan flair: perhaps sew on a few beads & sequins, add a jaunty tassel or two, stencil on a couple of Moroccan arches, maybe even henna on a khamsa hand. This is definitely going to make me rich.

But really, these are just snippets from Cat World - you really should pop over and read her yourself.

The Canadian living in Morocco is a good cure for dull days in this European winter ...

Correction: Morning brings clarity and the realisation that I hadn't made a link to Cat in Rabat's website ...