Sam and Alfie

Sam and Alfie have lived with me since February 2025. They are FIV-positive ex-strays with weird eyes. Their hobby is stealing food. Alfie (right) has opened Tupperware, broken through pet-proof locks, and gnawed his way through innumerable wrappers. Sam (left) watches, and eats.

Morvern

Morvern was my little black cat from 2019 to 2022. She was tiny and had bright green eyes. No one knows how old she was. I was told she was three when I adopted her; towards the end of her life, the vets thought she might in fact be in her early teens.

I write about Morvern and what she meant to me, in different ways, in this article on D. H. Lawrence, and in A Flat Place.