Sleeping Muses

It's no secret that writers find working with a sleeping cat or dog or gerbil nearby deeply - if oddly - helpful.

It's one of many reasons I've missed our old cat Katie.  But now I have not one but two small muses (notice how I'm resisting the urge to make the bad joke here) to help me get on with the words -

Even though, sometimes, falling asleep is something to be fought ...

There's room for at least one of them and a clipboard on my lap, as long as I don't care about the handwriting -

- though by the time they're St Jerome's cat's size, this won't be an option any more ...