Week with new kitten

What a week! My routines turned upside down, but such newfound joy... Since coming into my life, Wenusia has quickly adapted to me, and I to her. 

She is clean and house-trained and not in the least bit clumsy, careful not to knock things off window sills, work-surfaces or tables, and she's not a furniture-scratcher. She is curious and intelligent; the heavy overnight snow delighted her. I can see from her paw-prints that she has ranged across the działka this way and that, crossing under the fence into the next-door forest, but always making her way back accurately to where she knows there's food, warmth and friendly human companionship.

Overnight, she sleeps in the bathroom (on my chair, on my cushion), and meows in the mornings when she hears that I'm up. Then it's time for food, and popping out into the garden for a wee and a poo, while I eat my breakfast. She will run back into the house when I call her (as long as she's had enough time outside – which usually corresponds to the time I need to prepare and eat my food in peace). However, Wenusia is a fussy eater – she won't touch poultry-based kitten food, but devours fish- and red-meat- based food from the same brand. (Incidentally, Whiskas, from by the Mars corporation, is on my Ukraine boycott list because Mars still has factories operating in Russia paying taxes to Putin.)

After a week with me, she has settled in; may she live long (until I'm in my mid-80s!) and have a joyous life in Jakubowizna.

Fate has brought us together; had I not decided to walk through Jakubowizna last Sunday night, the long way home from the railway station, we would never have met.

Observing my new companion brings on many thoughts about the nature of personhood and agency, about consciousness, inter-species communication, and about the Cosmic Purpose.

This time last year:
Warsaw railway interstitials
[an exploration of liminal spaces around W-wa Śródmieście and W-wa Centralna]

This time two years ago:
Qualia memories – snowy Greenwich, January 1970

This time four years ago:
Meagre, disappointing snow

This time 11 years ago:
The sad truth about Karczunkowska's pavement
[Sod that. I ran out of patience. Still no fucking pavement on Karczunkowska, despite the volume of traffic increasing tenfold because of the S7 junction. So I have moved to a village with vastly more pavement than Jeziorki will ever have.]

This time 13 years ago:
About Warsaw's kebab restaurants
[In 2012, a king-size lamb kebab in pitta bread cost 13zł, today it's more than double that.]

This time 15 years ago:
Making the most of winter

This time 16 years ago:
Progress along Ballay Street

This time 17 years ago:
Shortest, mildest, winter?