Keep the bedroom door shut, was the advice of a friend when I told her that Felix sometimes demands his breakfast at 2am. Last night I did that, but after a game of me chasing Felix chasing a mouse around the house after midnight. I picked Felix up, with the mouse in his mouth, and put them out the back door – but I think he might have dropped it before I got him outside. I shut the door to the bedrooms and went back to bed. Felix had the mouse, dead, in the sitting room in the morning.

There are no pictures with this post, but the one I can’t get out of my head is of the tiny mouse sitting with its front paws up, nose to nose with Felix as if protesting its fate.