cats,crockery and circles
Some days you just know that you shouldn’t bother getting out of bed. The other day was a classic example.
One of our cats crawled through the cat flap and collapsed on the floor.Minutes before there had been an almighty crash and one of our fence panels almost caved in.Bearing in mind that our neighbours had buiders in, laying a new patio I put it down to their usual cack-handed approach to the job.Until I spotted the builders jack russell terrier in our back garden, busily digging up my potato plants and cocking it’s leg on my garden bench !!
Roaring out into the garden ( not a pretty site as I was still in PJs andhubby’s cast off Heineken t-shirt) I despatched the dog which had chased our cat through the cat-hole in the fence between our gardens. I returned to the house to examine the cat which was yowling pitifully and unable to put ant weight on his back legs.He walks with a limp anyway due to an old injury.His claws were all scuffed from scrabbling over the fence. I carried the cat upstairs and laid him on the bed. Went back to the kitchen to make a reviving cup of tea in my largest mug.Picked up the milk bottle and it slipped, bounced off my mug and crashed to the kitchen floor.Shattering the mug and contents over most of the kitchen floor and the milk bottle was a full one(naturally)
Meanwhile the cat is howling like a banshee so I bundle it into the car and set off down the vets, convinced that it has a broken leg at the very least. Half an hour and many pounds lighter vet pronounces that the cat has ‘probably torn a ligament’.We troop home and the cat limps outside-on it’s front two paws and bottom and proceeds to haul itself up the trellis, onto the shed roof and curls up on the garage roof. It starts to rain-
A announces that he is stuck on his maths.Great just to add to a perfect day-maths is not my strong point but I figure that as it’s geometry I should be able to help. I look at what he is doing, work on circles.
‘Mum what does pie-r-squared mean?’ he inquired.Well it’s a number I begin and then trail off-what does it mean ? I didn’t get it when I was 12 and the intervening years have not changed the situation !
By now it is pouring in earnest and I suggest finishing the maths lesson and would A like to get the ladder out and climb up onto the garage roof, to retrieve the cat.Then I thought we would go out-and buy some more mugs !