Charlotte Walker on Nostr: Get a cat, they said. It will relax you, they said. I recalled these words as I ...

Get a cat, they said. It will relax you, they said.

I recalled these words as I stomped down the sodden garden in my yellow wellies, the rain beating on my raincoat hood, to dispose of the drenched corpse of a rodent that Miss Cinnamon had left on the patio for me.

I did not feel relaxed.