thank you all 24 September 2009
I am overwhelmed and so SO grateful to you all for your kind messages on the passing of the G cat. It’s so great that no one has said ‘she was just a cat’ because you all understand that, yes she was a cat, but she was also my companion and friend (in her special furry way) for so long. I was relieved to have to go out for the day to work (a trip to Belfast) as the Dublin house is so quiet and lonely without her. She ran this place and had the personality of several beings larger, and supposedly of a higher order, than she. There is a distinct lack about it right now. I don’t know what to do with her dishes, which are all washed and stacked in the kitchen now. And it was nearly impossible not to buy cat food when I was in the supermarket earlier. Richard says the first ‘lesson’ he ever learned about being with me is that you NEVER came home without a sachet of something for a cat. And this is the first time in about 24 years that I have been cat-less and habits die hard and it took all my strength not to slip a pouch into the basket when I was shopping, or to get extra fish that we might tempt The G to eat (which had been The Mission over the last months). I would go out and get a rake of kittens or cats now but I won’t be home consistently enough over the next while to settle them in properly. Some day, though…
