Cat whisperer, not

Tried my best cat whisperer noises on this puss, and although it did stop and look at me a couple of times it was definitely with an expression of "stupid human" rather than responding to my attempted friendly overtures.
"Highlight" of the day was my trip to Tesco. Lowlight was getting my hopes up in the cricket, only to have them cruelly dashed. "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man" (jolly old Nietzsche). Perhaps I should cling more to "I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best"
(Benjamin Disraeli).