October's end

October's last day - Samhain tonight. The village will be filled with little ghosts and princess-witches. There will be knocking at the door and sweets given and costumes admired. This is the first year in many that we have simply not got involved. Oh - we have the sweets and we will answer the door and light up the window skyscape and pumpkins but the boys have suddenly grown up and don't want to actually join in with the festivity of it......boo.

We have a diva in our midst.

She poses and pouts. She wears her outfits with aplomb. She knows how to work her adoring crowds.

Oh, oh - here she comes!

Pan models a seasonally coloured cowl with wooden buttons made for a metro-sexual Siamese 

(his owner's description, not mine!)

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I thought I would do an October montage

A lot has happened.  Birthdays, foul weather, walking, Samhain, autumn arrived and Lily* vanished. 

*Yesterday, as I flung open the bedroom curtains, a big ginger cat was sitting on the kitchen roof. My heart did a skip but at the same time I knew it was not Lila. The cat turned and stared, it was a huge tom cat, short coated and sporting - a purple collar and bells.... He jumped off the roof and disappeared.

I think that this cat is the one that folk have been seeing. She has been gone for 15 days now, not a sign, nothing. We have to face facts - she is gone.