It’s been lovely to briefly be back home with Brian and Maddy, Boo and Misty and my familiar comfy things, but Bergman and I have places to be. I have other cats to talk affectionate gibberish with.
A brief stop to Lou first. Her little green car has been sitting in Brighton unused while she’s been finishing up in the big London. Now she’s finished she wants to start using her, but the battery has run down too low to ignite. We aren’t yet into reprogramme the radio territory, thankfully. I brought down a jump kit for her, or at least I thought I had. In actual fact I bought a great big external battery that you can plug in to the wall in your garage overnight to fully juice up the battery of a car you don’t use often enough. No good for us so we went back to Halfords to swap it and ended up with a jump-start kit. A hundred quid. It doubles as a huge great big festival phone charger. I want one for myself to keep in Bergman. If it holds its charge I’ll probably get one. It got Lou up and running again in a moment. Tomorrow she’s gonna take me for a spin in her little green car. A bit of confidence building so she can start to move things back and forth from her workshop when its pouring with rain.
Meanwhile just a bit of time to connect when both of us have just emerged from a busy patch. It’s her birthday coming up. I’ll be living in the woods again for a week from tomorrow, and Hastings isn’t so far away from her. We can meet halfway and go for lovely walks up hills together.
Right now though I’m sitting in a dark room with Tessy. I completely forgot about writing this until on the edge of sleep my internal alarm system jolted me up to do it. I think writing it at 4am last time has slightly jolted me out of my routine. But that’s a good thing. The problem with writing like this when I’m just about to go to sleep is that my brain is already half shut down. Maybe in the woods I’ll try to do some morning writing as I’ll be up to feed the wood cats and get the dead mice off the carpet.
It’s windy here. I think Tessy is glad of the company as she’s sitting right by my leg, but I’m gonna pull myself back into bed with Lou and shut down for the night.
AlBarclay 