Inseparable.

I always though cats were loners... we've had them before and they've pretty much always done their own thing. Sure they would come charging through the cornfields when they heard the car arrive home, but they usually came at us from opposite ends of the park. This pair are always together.

I thought this one was a fluke when I took it, but when we went out for a walk today, the pair of them were sitting together on the wall at the bottom of the garden. I was glad that they seemed surprised to see us and that they were a little bit apprehensive about coming any closer to the road, but I walked back home and called them in anyway. I didn't want them following us up the path.

Walk was short and cold (ice on the pavements tonight) but pleasant. Had a good laugh at the mum who was encouraging her crying child to hurry up as walking through the leaves in front of the church hall. It went something like "If you put as much energy into walking as you did crying we'd be there by now." Seems harsh perhaps, but said infant put his head down, kicked up some more leaves and stopped crying. A well judged interpretation of the cry I think!

Less well judged today... our esteemed leader's desire to wear a poppy in China come hell or high water. From the perspective of the west the argument against him doing so may seem a bit daft, but in the East the poppy acts as a poignant reminder of Britain's involvement in the opium wars. According to Cameron the Chinese should embrace democracy - not sure they'll be too keen on that if he rams a reminder of British Imperialism down their throat. Symbolism is all very well and good, but it doesn't always cross cultural boundaries.