Back home for Jack

A wild and rainy day today, the highlight of which was my furry boy Jack's return home from his overnight stay at the vet. I picked him up on my way home from school and I could hear him miaowing in his low voice in his cat carrier as I drove down the road, and he rubbed against my fingers when I stuck them through the grille. He has a shaven tummy and two shaven front legs, which caused Ally much amusement. Although clearly pleased to be home - he walked about and scratched his scratching post and climbed up on the radiator - he is not very pleased with us; there was not much affection this evening and he didn't want to sit on anyone's lap, not even James'. He is still preoccupied by his ordeal I think, after all from his point of view the whole thing was meaningless and unpleasant, but I'm sure that he'll soon get over it. Ally has his LNAT exam tomorrow, which is a sort of aptitude test for pupils who want to study Law. He has had preparation classes at school but I have no idea how he'll get on. And he's now talking of choosing History over Law, so who knows what he will decide! This evening I wrote all my Christmas cards and Ally posted them except the local ones which Davie will deliver tomorrow. Jamie phoned; he thinks his exams went well today and he is going to pop home tomorrow for a few hours before collecting his ballerina from the train to take her back to Dundee. This is the dancing teacher whom he met in Darwin, who followed him to Melbourne during the summer. The weather is still very windy and rainy outside just now but I quite like that when I'm tucked up in bed!