Signing on

I toddled off to sign on today. It was fine; I was on time, and I had all the paperwork I needed with me. She didn't even ask to see it. I asked her if she wanted it, and she said she might as well.

Then she gave me oceans of praise for looking for work so hard and so persistently. It was lovely. Apparently I can expect some money around Tuesday.

Poor kitten!

Mustard was caught out in a sudden and determined hailstorm today. "Oh look," we said, "it's gone dark."

Sudden crashing noise from outside. "What the $%*& was that?"

Ran to the back door and started calling him, then realised that there was no way he'd hear me over the storm. So I beat his food dish with a spoon. Then I went out in the hail to find him myself (it was a small storm with small hail, no danger, we don't get real winter here I'm told by Canadanadadanians) and eventually heard a plaintive miaow from the middle of the clematis. He was so deep in the bush that I couldn't see him, so I just stood under the plant calling and hoping he'd find his way down to me.

He did, and I was able to dig him out of the bush and bring him indoors, where he immediately found cause to purr like a tractor.