Taken at the same time as another picture I posted recently, but I’m including this one as well since Sahraa looks so cute with the light on her collar. But also to relate a story from yesterday, when I found a dead mouse on the dining room carpet, right where I put my feet when I work on my laptop downstairs in the evenings. We have recently had a problem with mice, but they have never run around the dining room, and surely not on the carpet, and I think it’s pretty unlikely that the mouse would have suddenly keeled over on the rug. We think it’s possible that Sahraa caught it, and left it as a present for me where she knew I’d see (or step on) it. The funny thing is that at first I thought she had had an accident on the carpet (which she simply doesn’t do in the house), until I looked closely and saw the dead mouse. I worked upstairs for the rest of the day.

Christmas in Tokyo, posted earlier: