Saturday, December 19

Two big ginger cats live in the neighbourhood. One lives on this side and the other lives on that side. We call the one who lives on this side Ginger. We don’t call the one who lives on that side anything at all, because we very rarely see it.

Today, listening to Dory Previn and walking strenuously through weather that does not quite count as raining, I find myself looking straight into the eyes of the cat who lives on that side. It watches me without moving and then gets up and walks approximately two metres as I approach.

I will carry on walking. I have not listened to Dory Previn for almost a decade.