Friday 28th November - scavenger hunt - write a chatty email

 I think I've already done this once this month, but two in a month won't hurt! 

I've finished reading a book called 

'We'll prescribe you a cat' by Syou Ishida. I'm still not sure what to make of it. What I did enjoy is the description of life in the Japanese city. It's so different to England and I find it fascinating. I sort of enjoyed the stories, because that is what the book is, a series of episodes linked by the idea of this odd clinic which treats people's problems by 'prescribing' them a cat. 

I know several people who loathe cats, can't bear to be in the same room as a cat... this book is NOT for them!

It's all a bit weird, and gets even stranger towards the end. Do I like it? I still don't know.

I met up with a school friend I hadn't seen much of in maybe 35 years, at Ham House on the Thames last Summer. We were thick as thieves all through our prep school years, and then she went off to boarding school, and what with one thing and another our paths didn't cross. But we discovered that our original friendship was strong enough to withstand the distance of miles and years. She had been given the book, read it, and passed it on - we're both cat lovers so she knew I'd like to read it.

So that's who I wrote the chatty email to.

Poem

Fog

By Carl Sandburg

The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.

 from The Poetry Foundation

Music

The 'cat' duet performed at the 1996 Last Night of the Proms.