Real life versus still life

The artistic ideal - Cat with tulips - Elizabeth Blackadder





The sad reality - Cat with tulips - Rosa Luxemburg Elephant

Morning

It starts at round about 5.30am - the sound of claw on gloss paint and insistent wailing. Eventually, I stagger out of bed and let them in.
Mits: claw, claw, claw (=let me under the covers)
GSE: lifts covers
Mits: eww, I'm not going in there

repeat sequence about 30 times till one of 3 things happens. GSE's shoulder dislocates again, Mits finally gets under the covers or Rosa nips in ahead of Mits and lies there looking spiteful.