1. We get barked at from a car: two dogs sticking their heads out of a back window, demanding attention.

2. A cat crawls inside the log hauling bag on the floor and another watches her disappear. I predict, correctly, that before the evening is through this will become a multi cat game of bat and chase.

2b. Lily knows that her Bonio is wrapped up in one of the mini-blankets (it often is) and pulls one off the cat hammock to check – nope, not that one. She then stands on the sofa to reach the blankets on the top section – one of the blankets that Strange is sat on. Strange lets her pull it a little bit then raise a (claw-retracted) paw as a sign to leave her blankie alone, dogdammit. Lily obeys and Strange curls back into the wool to sleep.

3. A new pattern is a little fiddly at first but after the second row, I find its rhythm. The blanket grows quickly and the texture is interesting without being outlandish.