woolymonkey | Buggled off

The Beast of Girton is on walkabout. Lock up your poultry.

When I went to collect Humbug from Thorndyke he wasn't there. He was definitely there most of last week (when he was still coming home at night) and on Monday night (when he wasn't), but not last night. They're sure because their own cat was out for several hours last night, which isn't possible when Humbug is around to bully him :( Also there were lots of cute little bunnies hopping about unmolested.

Worried that poor Humbug, having failed to find food and shelter with the nice physicist, had wandered further and got even more lost, I've been tramping the fields, strictly private no entry tracks and farm buildings in the area. No Humbug, but some interesting conversations. It seems Humbug thinks nothing of crossing the parish boundary into Cambridge at least as far down as the Traveller's Rest. He's a regular at the little business park behind there.

In many ways this is reassuring. We know he was confirmed alive and well on Monday night, and that he knows his way around a much wider area than previously thought. So if he's not coming home, it's probably just because he doesn't want to. We'll just have to accept that he is a Cat (or possibly Muppet) Who Walks Alone and he will come back when he is ready. So I'm much less anxious and doomy. But I miss him! We all miss him.