I'm still amazed how fast we've moved from "don't ever touch me!" to "scritches required at all times pls" with Little Stray Kitty.
Hopefully a good sign that he'll come back once the door is open.
No firm ETA on that at the moment due to my tooth drama. But soon.
I should say that we'd have already opened the downstairs doors if it wasn't clear that he's pretty satisfied with life right now.
Still yowls at cats through the window occasionally, but is so much more relaxed in himself and discovering new experiences like duvet deep snoozes.
He's got a deep, quiet rumble of a purr. I still remember him almost jumping out of his skin the first time he did it. As if he had no idea he could make that noise.
Yesterday while I was at my desk working, he actually tried to climb on my lap. But he just couldn't work out the logistics of laps, panicked and ran back into the spare room.
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@CrusaderKings Stream will kick off when the DLC drops, about 5pm UK time.
Excited for the new culture features, and been planning this run as a way to show them off for a while.
Plus it gives us an awesome opportunity to talk about real Roman Britain, and how cultures merge/Empires retreat
@CrusaderKings So you'll be able to tune in live for lots of gameplay discovery and historical natter (plus some proper Roman mythbusting if people cash in their histofacts) from about 5pm via the link below.
I have a strange fascination with watching Rishi Sunak manoeuvre for power, as I think he's going to be terrible at it.
It's all very Carlito's Way. He's the young mob lawyer who has fallen in love with his own legend a bit and thinks he's now a gangster.
Both Eat Out and his current energy bill scheme have shown that he's terribly good at coming up with ideas that sound clever to a bunch of earnest young SPADs. But that don't really survive their encounter with actual real-world society and economics.
Normally someone like Rishi would get to cut his teeth on stuff like that (and make those mistakes) somewhere like Transport (see: Phil Hammond).
Rishi is doing it as Chancellor, and may very soon be doing it as PM.
One day I am going to write a comedy set in local Labour Party meetings on Zoom.
I'm not even going to make anything up. It'll be stuff I've seen happen in them over the years.
I'm just going to change people's names.
It'll even have a part written in it for Robert Lindsay, to resume his 'Wolfie Smith' role. He'll play the elder Trot who got his foot in the Momentum door early.
Much as I have enjoyed the rockstar lifestyle of living on a heady cocktail of soup, booze and painkillers, I am very much looking forward to a return to solid food.
Although based on my viral tweet output this week it seems I am at my most creative when on soup, painkillers and booze.
Which is concerning.
It's not the painkillers and booze bit that bothers me. I could keep doing those.
I just cannot face any more tubs of soup where the depth of flavour is inversely proportional to the number of hipster ingredients on the label.