It is dark outside

Lorcan

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There's no real street light here. Lights in both alleys that flank us and one on the street over, but here you've got whatever light is coming through the house windows. So, not a lot.

There's a woman out calling for a cat. I've seen this cat tonight, about 5 minutes after she started calling for it. Where did I see it? Climbing over the back of my fence and dropping into the remnants of the shed.

I have no idea if the cat's still there and it's pointless me trying to look because it's so dark. It's been 15+ minutes, she's still calling for the cat. I think it's just being difficult at this stage. "I DON'T WANT TO COME HOME TO A NICE WARM HOUSE YOU CAN'T MAKE ME I WANT TO STAY OUTSIDE WHERE IT'S BLOODY FREEZING OKAY okay." Ah, cats. Please go home, Tabitha, lol.
 
Back when I got woken up at 6am in the Spring, with what I thought was magpies and crows screaming at each other (again) but it turned out to be all 4 birds were actually screaming at a cat in the tree - that was Tabitha. She's a gorgeous long-haired tawny fluff, but she's not very fond of me except that she loves being in the absolute disaster mess that is my garden. I assume that's why she was hiding in the non-shed.
 
Magpies love to scream at cats. One time one was sat on the fence above my RB cat, Gingerbread, shrieking at him, then bashing his beak against the fence then shrieking some more. Gingerbread was just sat at the bottom, cowering with a desperate look in his eyes like he wanted to run away but was too afraid so I had to go out and rescue him. He was never a very brave cat and also never hunted anything beyond moths and butterflies. Seriously the magpie was more of a threat to all the birds it was warning about the cat than the cat ever was 🙀
 
My local magpies are absolute hooligans. They pick fights with the cats, crows, squirrels, pigeons - nesting season was hilarious, just non-stop magpie screams for days. One got ganged up on by several crows a few weeks back. I felt bad for the magpie til the crows left, and it wouldn't shut up, and the crows came back because nobody likes sass. Even birds.

One of them, lately, has been choosing to sit on my roof and scream at anything that moves. I swear my last flat was a second floor home right next to a massive tree and I still didn't get woken up by bird shenanigans with as much regularity. Bloody magpies.
 
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