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06:08 pm: List of Stuff
Today I let both cats out for the first time since we moved here. There was a large black cat in the garden, whom Cally had been watching out of the window. I let her out: she slipped down the stairs like an elegant shadow and then she and the black cat played a short game of stare-stare until Cally decided to go investigate the neighbour's garden instead. Then I let Gallus out. (The gap was because I hadn't yet put Gallus's collar-and-tag on.) By this time, the black cat, perhaps puzzled by Cally's apparent disappearance, was sitting half-way up the stairs. Gallus appeared at the top of the stairs: I stood at the sitting-room window and watched a very brief game of stare-stare which ended when the black cat turned and fled as Gallus trundled down the stairs towards it. Good grief. Scary Gallus...

Later I saw a white-and-tabby cat sitting on the stairs. I wonder how my cats made out in local cat politics....

A few minutes ago I opened the front door, all set to yell "Cally! Gallus!"

Only a girl (aged around 12, staying - she said - with her granny next door) was standing on the doorstep. So was Gallus, and Gallus was yelling. I hadn't heard her through the door. So I checked myself before I yelled, picked Gallus up (the yells stopped immediately) and politely asked the girl if she lived around here. "Oh yes. I heard her crying, so I came up to see her."

I couldn't quite face stepping past her to yell "Cally!" with no explanation, so I wondered out loud where the other cat was, and stepped inside, without closing the door. I waited until the girl had reached the pavement before I called "Cally!" Before the girl could reach her gran's front door, I saw Cally slipping out from the garden next to my neighbour's: I pointed her out to the girl, who was running up her granny's stair. (Her gran is my neighbour on the other side, the one with whom I do not share a common stair.)

Anyway, both cats are in and safe from their afternoon's adventures.

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You are Spirit, the other Mars Exploration Rover.
When you're not sulking at NASA and writing
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Tags: cally, cat politics, cats, gallus