Recap

You know you've been accepted back home when they banish you to the naughty step just like they used to. A brief recap of the story so far before the next thing happens. I like it when a story just seems to evolve organically like this one is doing...

Jigsaw

Our problem isn't cats and jigsaw puzzles - it's cats and board games. It's incredible how well a cat can disrupt a game of Scrabble by walking across the board, or even worse, flopping down in the middle of the board and demanding to be adored.

The naughty step

Introducing a new location: Jones' naughty step. This is the front door to the house, and it's where Jones gets banished to whenever she's done something wrong. Of course, if she wanted to get back in again all she has to do is walk around to the blue back door where the cat flap is. But she's too busy brooding on the injustice of it all to remember it's there.

We don't have flowers in our house for this exact reason. Flowers tend to get put in a vase outside our front door, where Smudge can't get at them.