The noises emanating from the cat sound like a shy request. She wants either food or requires a door to be opened so that she may go about her business in another room of the house.
Meanwhile, the mess has expanded to the bathroom, the son has taken to leaving piles of clothes on the washing machine, washed and unwashed, dried and still damp, all to be dealt with shortly. Still, they lie there for days and days, and possibly will be there until the coming week.
There does not seem to be any inclination to tidy things away.
Maybe such behaviour is not a matter of inclination, but of training.
Reading the news, Russia has made gains in the Ukraine. This may cause some escalation in the aid for Ukraine, and this will reduce the chances for peace and civilised behaviour. Why Russia felt the necessity to start using military force instead of diplomacy in the first place remains hard to understand. A crude procedure that has had limited success wherever it has been applied within the last few centuries.
Open the windows in the living room, allow the air to come into the dusty room. It is now ten past eight in the morning, and there is the lazy sound of small-town traffic outside. There is the rush sound of young cyclists on their way to school, the sound of voices passing as people wander up the street to their places of work.
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