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Yet another map of the internet, this one based on the Tokyo metro map.

Is there a list of maps of the internet somewhere? A sort of meta-map, if you will? There probably should be...

Arse Thorns

I'm meant to start teaching on Sunday morning, at 8am, in Hendon.

The DLR is Not Working this weekend.

Helf from people who live closer?

I think perhaps tomorrow morning I need to do a dry run with the bicycle, see if I can get to Canary Wharf and then from East Finchley to where I'm going in a sensible-enough amount of time to make it feasible to stay at home.

DeliCat situation

So.

My neighbours have a cat. They usually leave a back window open, which she can get out of but doesn't seem to be able to get back into (it's on the first (not ground) floor). I presume they leave her water and food inside, although I have no way of knowing for sure. I'm pretty sure they don't leave her water and food outside. That would be fine, except she can't get back in. I can understand not leaving food, because rats would just eat it and cause problems, but not leaving water is mean. I suspect they don't have a litterbox inside for her, which is why the window is left open for her to get out, but I don't know for sure.

Late afternoon or evening she is always hanging around our place, and if I see her out there and it's been hot I always let her come in for a drink of water. If I'm doing food preparation at the time then she looks at me beseechingly, in that way that cats do when they think there might be a bit of fish in it for them.

She's thin. She's very thin. I know cats ARE thin, generally, but she's worryingly thin. She's also worryingly wary of people and contact, much more than she used to be; she was quite an affectionate creature when the neighbours brought her home in 2005, six months old.

Lately I've been succumbing and giving her a bit of fish (tuna in springwater) if I'm having any. She seems very grateful and rubs up against my legs and even purrs a bit. She eats fast and wants more. She's hungry.

I have NO direct evidence that the neighbours are mistreating this animal in any way. I don't like these neighbours much; they smoke in the garden, and when they replaced their fence they took some of our garden, and I get upset when people smoke and have pets because it is bad for the pets, who have no way to complain.

Is this a "talk to the neighbours" situation, or a "feed the cat once in a while" situation, or a "call the RSPCA" situation? I have no idea. Mitsy is definitely better off there than she would be in a cat home, so I don't want her taken away. I'm loathe to confront the neighbours about it as I'm not the best neighbour myself sometimes and I don't want to be on the receiving end of a defensive response.