1. I like soup.

1b. We watch the cat – the one I think that has been sneaking in to eat our cats’ food – exploring the elder tree and sniffing the sycamore stump.

2. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: black cats look awesome on bright geometric patterns.

3. Reading in French is enjoyable but slow going: everything is anchored around the content words (the verbs and nouns especially), tense and belonging only come after that, and only when the literal is understood do I apply my metaphor/idiom interpretor. I wonder if I read in English in the same way – just faster.