Gathered around the festive centers (The Tree and The Bar, which should be the name of an old Christmas Carol or a Country-Western song but isn't), all the assembled 'Catters broke into a song to celebrate the dual birthdays of Noreen and Beethoven:

"Oh, Freundlich...er, ah, hell, it's in bloody German, fer Chrissakes...oh, fergiddit..."

A duo did play a rousing chorus of "Happy Birthday To You" on lute and piobrach, however, while Welsh Courgies howled along.