Well. It's the big Farmers Weekly Awards at the end of the month in London. The invitation arrived this week to my Dad and me.
Well I assume it's for my Dad and me although the actual invitation says to Matthew and Neve Naylor. Now my dad's name is Nev, not Neve. Neve is a woman's name whereas my Dad happens to be male. I have mentioned this a couple of times to the Farmers Weekly but they obviously think that I am being unreasonable - they have decided that his name is Neve and that's that.
So we have a problem. It would almost certainly be less embarrassing for everyone if Dad rolled along with this and dressed as a woman for the evening. He has a beard, I know, but so do some women in Lincolnshire and this is a farmers event after all. I'm not sure how this will all play out.
My sister thinks I am useless at sorting problems like this out. She would tell me to just ring them up and ask them to change the name rather than writing about it in a blog. She said this last year when we caught potato blight from our organic neighbour and I wrote a poem about it. "Shouldn't you just ring him up rather than writing a poem?" she asked.
Anyway the Awards will also mark the end of our contest with Catchat. Every new reader on this blog counts so tell your mates to start reading this if you don't want the Catman sticking one of his gruesome and soppy pictures here.
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