A Dog Wakens Your Heart To Joy

One Small Cat Changes Coming Home To An Empty House To Coming Home.

Many A Cat Can Only Be Lured In By Switching Off All The Lights And Keeping Very Still. Until The Indignant Cry Of A Cat-locked-out Comes At The Door.

A Bag Of Apples, A Pot Of Homemade Jam, A Scribbled Note, A Bunch Of Golden Flowers, A Coloured Pebble, A Box Of Seedlings, An Empty Scent Bottle For The Children. . . . Who Needs Diamonds And Van-delivered Bouquets?

Thank You For Being Interested. Doesn't Sound Much But It Meant Just About Everything.

The Child Who Ran Weeping To You With A Cut Finger Is Now Brought Home, Smiling Gamely, With A Broken Collarbone And Incredible Contusions- 'it Wasn't Jezebels Fault, Dad.'