Bird Incident

[coalescent]

So there I am, making dinner. Filling the kettle with water, listening to music, as you do. From behind me there is a mewing, and then a thunk sound, so I turn around. Behind me is my parents' cat, sitting neatly in the middle of a flurry of feathers. She's wearing one of those 'who, me? No, you don't want me. Nothing to see here,' expressions that cats do so well.

I look around the kitchen. Nothing to be seen.

I walk from the sink over to the hob, and start cooking my pasta. After a few moments, the cat follows me over and starts mewing insistently. I look around: Still nothing. I decide to clean up the feathers.

The cat continues to mew. As I get up from sweeping feathers (which is a remarkably difficult task; try it sometime), I see it: On the work surface, there is a bag of hula hoops, and on the bag of hula hoops, there is a small sparrow, clearly frightened out of its wits. The cat is sitting next to the unit, looking at me expectantly.

The cat and I exchange glances.

I move towards the bird, and - just like that - it leaps into the air, and flies out the open door. It is closely followed by the cat.

I go back to sweeping the feathers and cooking my dinner.

In other news, Angel S4 lays the smack down on Buffy S7, and all is right with the world.

Comments

[tizzle-b.livejournal.com]

That was scrapped and all votes restored to their previous goals when it was quite clear that it would've taken round 5s for most episodes from you two in order to upset ODC with the averages.

And it would've been revised as soon as it had been posted anyway - it was more the initial impact and not the long-term thing.

So no rigging :P

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Shite. That means I really HAVE lost all critical faculties then.