There Is Nothing Like A Garden To

Dogs Can Be Made To Feel Guilty About Anything, Including The Sins Of Their Owners. Cats Refuse To Take The Blame For Anything - Including Their Own Sins.

It Is Easier To Counterfeit Old Age Than Youth.

The Cat Horus Shot Out From Under The Table And Headed For The Door, His Ears Flattened And His Tail Straight Out. There He Encountered Abdullah, Who Had Been Waiting For Us On The Verandah And Who Had, I Supposed, Been Alarmed By Emerson's Shouts And Hurried To Discover What Disaster Had Prompted Them. The Cat Got Entangled In Abdullah's Skirts And A Brief Interval Of Staggering (by Abdullah), Scratching (by Horus) And Swearing (by Both Parties) Ensued Before Horus Freed Himself And Departed.

The Way To Get On With A Cat Is To Treat It As An Equal - Or Even Better, As The Superior It Knows Itself To Be.

Sometimes The Characters Develop Almost Without Your Knowing It. You Find Them Doing Things You Hadn't Planned On, And Then I Have To Go Back To Page 42 And Fix Things. I'm Not Recommending It As A Way To Write. It's Very Sloppy, But It Works For Me.