Cat Fight

 I hear cats being horrible to one another so I go out into the night and find Marlowe engaged in a stand-off with a black cat of unknown origin. I try to distract them but they're so fixated on one another that I might as well not exist. The smart thing would have been to apply water but instead I pick Marlowe up and hurry off inside- and he's too surprised to struggle. I put him down on the kitchen floor and bar the exit- and he attacks my slippered foot, tooth and claw, with all the mindless fury the black cat has been spared....

Three Unrelated Observations

 We have a cleaner come in once in a while. How she gets things looking so tidy is beyond me....

A young woman and an older woman attend a very serious conference about social justice. The young woman is having fun, getting up to speed with people she hasn't met in a while. The older woman takes her aside and tells her to "weighty up". What abominable English and what abominable advice! What makes it even sadder is that the young woman took it- and has regulated her conduct in accordance with it ever since.

Did you know that Keir Starmer won this years election with far fewer votes than Jeremy Corbyn got when he lost to Boris Johnson in 2019? I think this tells us just how fast our faith in mainstream politics is eroding.....