cool right foot

silence, there is no sound in the house, even though it is early.
then sly sounds slip into hearing, a steady vibration, that is the cat, purring to herself in the bed, there is the thirty second signal from those french factory clocks, all old and no longer built.
Clocks with those functions take their time signals from decaying caesium somewhere in Germany, transmitted-by-radio signals that are so accurate that you could set the stars in sky by them.
If you wanted.
Get up, it is chilly.
The silence is the due to the sons spending the night with a group of friends

It is chilly, read the news, Trump is trying to adjust political set screws, and ends up just making silly statements, as if he was talking to a crowd of cronies in a parlour and not trying to reassure people who had entrusted him with their votes and the power to rule their lives.

The chill is nasty.

Get up, go and have a nice warm shower.
return from the bathroom, put on the clothes, clean-feeling fresh underwear is a pleasant thing.

Sit down, pull a sock over the left foot.
The cat jumps onto the knees, and lies down.
The left foot is warm, the right foot has no sock.
And the cat is happily purring, holds her head up, fondle her head, leave her there. Experiencing the cat's pleasure is more important than covering a cool right foot.

Read more news, Syria, Turkey and Russia. Thirty soldiers dead, all in the line of some dictators work.

Put the cat down onto the ground.

It is time for a hot drink and a slice of bread.

The cat is being attentive again, so take up her plate and put some cat food onto it from the tin in the fridge. The cat feeds.
And now to get on with the rest of the day......................