Didn't occur to me that some people might not know what paraffin is until
Jackie asked.
It's not paraffin wax. It's a bit like petrol (gas) but not so volatile.
Used to be used here a lot in free standing room heaters when we had
industrial problems with power workers in the 1960s and 1970s and we
scheduled power cuts for three hours at a time every day. One of those
periods was known as "the winter of discontent" and finished the then
current government.
When DH went to buy the Swarfega, he told the salesman that it was to rub
into a cat, and he could hardly serve him for laughing.
At the follow-up visit to the vet, the vet had the cat cradled on her back
and said "Who's a poor moggie then? Have you got a sore botty then?" The
vet's arm was then dripping with blood where the cat lashed out at him.
Obviously took offence at something - probably the indignity of being held
on her back and having baby words said to her.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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