Destroyed

There was an almighty caterwauling at 0615 this morning, followed by thumps and bumps and more growling. A (new to the area) strange cat had been trying to get in the cat flap and the Super Brave Ginger One was holding him off (his brother was behind, backing him up). My cat flap is in the wall so there's a bit of a tunnel and that seemed to be where the fight was. Between them they've completely destroyed it!

All of that we could have done without as it ended up being a very long day and late night yesterday. I was on my way home when I got a message at about 6pm to say J's mum had just died, not long after No. 2 Not Child had arrived from Nottingham and the priest had been to visit. It was all very peaceful and she wasn't in any distress but was a bit quicker than we all expected.. By the time the paramedics, the out of hours GP and then funeral directors had been it was gone midnight. Luckily J and I had sent the Not Children home a while before

Thank you for everyone's best wishes and lovely comments yesterday. The Not Children have been persuaded to carry on with their weekend plans and once J has finished the immediate (unnecessarily complex and inefficient) admin we shall go out, and talk about something else.