"bagpuss - the image your name conjjures up for me varies - some days a bagpipe toting cat - and sometimes a bagpipe MADE of a cat."

Strangely, the bagpipe made of a cat actually exists.

There's a musician who joins the Bedford Hotel sessions at Sidmouth every year, who makes his own bagpipes, and he has one with a bag tiger striped in black and orange fun fur that looks a bit like Bagpuss.

Don T.