A tale of two kitties.

 This is the place where we'd usually expand on what music I'd thought was cool / sucked this year but seeing as we switched from Kiss FM to Heart at work then it basically boils down to the new Andre 3000 flute jazz album as the absolute best and Commercial  Cee Sprinter as the total nadir of the year. 

No I'd rather spend my time writing about cats or rather a tale of two kitties. Tabby McTat for the BBC and Mog on Channel 4. Both are set in London and whereas Mog is a full on nostalgia fest set in what looks like the 70's. Tabby McTat is a full on modern day, Multi-cultural London. As a result it feels weirdly off. Modern day things for a modern day audience.

Tabby, stars a busker and his singing cat, who thanks to a crook nicking his hat full of takings ends up in A&E while his cat wanders off to live with the weird lesbians and their cat Sock, a Black cat with a white paw. I thought one of them was trans at first until I clicked its supposed to be Islington and they're leftie weirdo types. One of the best things I can fully cheer them for is Weedle representation as one of Sock's kittens is a Weedle type. 

Weedle and Xmas 80x or so.

Anyway the two are reunited and busker bloke gets a place and takes on Tabby's son Spratt.

Mog on the other hand is a real gem. Based on the books by Judith Kerr, this is a real nostalgia bait for those of a certain age. It just screams family and cosyness. It has mum, dad, a daughter and son and Mog, trying to deal with change at Xmas. Dad gets a spanking great tree for his kids, and Mog is booted out. If you are an Autistic weirdo like me you'll see parallels to the autism experience of change and stuff. Mog decamps to the roof while this is going on. 

Meanwhile they have family over, a cheerful uncle and two aunties one dozy and one quite sane. You can imagine them living together as two spinsters or you can imply they're not. Anyway it just hangs together as a family unit. Mog does decide to come down via the chimney and runs amok,  before being captured and bathed. 

I will say its beautiful, and of a period of London long lost. The only non white is a Jamaica lady who's evil chimp child of a son likes Mog. Tabby McTat is the full on modern London with modern values, but this is for the old heads who grew up here and see it decline full time. 

You can see it here. Tabby McTat is on iPlayer which is not free and therefore doesn't get a link.