October

V0023837ER Clocks: various types of clock mechanism. Coloured engraving Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Clocks: various types of clock mechanism. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1809. 1809 after: John PassPublished: 8 December 1809 Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

V0023845 Clocks: various types of clock mechanism. Engraving by J. W. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Clocks: various types of clock mechanism. Engraving by J. W. Lowry. after: J. Wilson LowryPublished: – Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Where does time go…well scientifically I understand the process but one day it’s the 1st September and the next we’re in October. Days have obviously passed; work has continued; I know I had one week of Mania (that was fun, except it wasn’t really) and the cats food has disappeared again.

Talking of the cats, Buster’s been asserting his territory again and he has the missing fur to prove it. It’s amazing, the neighbourhood cats rarely get their claws into him because his fur’s so thick, instead we just find bare patches which show the passage of time as they slowly grow fluff.

So maybe I can track the days in October by monitoring Buster’s skin. A novel approach? Definitely, but using a calendar ain’t working.