I wanted a quiet morning working in my shed typing out a journal for a friend.  Well, that was the plan anyway.

And then Monster arrived, whined and scratched at the door to be let in so, as my desk was rather full of monitors, scanner, cd-player, etc, I dug out my piano stool and plonked him on it.

Apparently that wasn’t good enough and Monster wandered around my desk for a while getting in the way and being annoying.  There wasn’t room for everything.

Eventually, I made a space behind my main laptop and told him to “jolly well go and sit there” – that’s the polite version!

Pepper, annoyed with all the attention Monster was receiving, then put herself on the piano stool and wobbled for a while.  It rotates very easily. She didn’t like that.

So she clambered onto my lap and at that stage, all work stopped.  I had no chance of trying to type, scan or read anything.

Eventually, I shifted Pepper back to her chaise longue telling her I was going to work until 12 and then we would go for our cat/dog/whoever-walk.

I went back to my work surrounded by animals and I felt a bit watched.

Honestly, it’s a wonder I got anything done – I managed ten pages in two hours, which was a good chunk into this journal. And yes, Monster came part of the way on the dog walk whingeing all the way.