Well, Readers, the trail cam has been recording the usual over the past few weeks – the fox has visited every night, and so has Cosmo, the recently-shaved cat…

…but then we brought it inside and put it on the kitchen counter, and it’s spent the past few days capturing the most unflattering photos of me going about my cooking activity. Yes, I forgot to turn it off, so it’s caught me in all my glory.

Thinks: must remember my pilates posture when I’m doing the washing up…

….reaching for not one but two types of ice-cream….

…but the amaryllis is splendid, if I do say so myself.

And now on to my dilemma. Our house is end of terrace, which means there’s a door through to the garden on the left hand side of the building. For a long time, the underside of the door has been deteriorating, which means that foxes, cats, squirrels etc can come in and out of the garden relatively easily. Alas, the door has got to a stage where it would be easy for a human to also just come into the garden, so we’re having it replaced. My concern is, will the animals find a different way in and out, or am I going to have to shave some off the bottom? Or even put in a cat door? This is where the trail cam should be useful, as it will show if animals are still visiting. Our house (and the one next door, which has an intact door) is the only one for about sixty houses that has a side return, so it will be interesting to see what happens. I suspect that the critters will find a way, but nonetheless I feel a bit guilty, just as I did when the windows were replaced and whole families of spiders were made homeless. Sigh.  Am I getting more eccentric with age, I wonder, or am I just admitting it more? Anyone else worry about these things, or am I the only one?