A Mass of Odds and Ends

One of the advantages of Skype is that I can use it when I’m away to apply maternal cross examining techniques, watching the teenagers turn away when I ask the question they don’t want to answer. There are therefore few surprises for me when I get back (I tutted disapprovingly to find the washing that I hung out a week ago still languishing on the line but I can’t pretend I was surprised to find it there) so it is fun to find the small intense world of our pets still functioning in its timeless way, Night still longing for Smokey to leave her alone in her dog bed, so that she can really spread herself out.