Tilly-less

My parents are away on holiday right now for a few weeks and it has been quite a rude awakening for me in one respect. I had over the last three months or so got a little more used to being without Tilly, I missed her daily but I was getting resigned to the situation maybe...that however was before I found myself entirely 'home alone'.

When my parents are away I kinda have a whole new set of routines to those I usually follow when they are here and I hadn't realised just how much of those routines included Tilly, nor how much I relied on her for company.

I don't ever particularly relish rattling around in this house on my own but as a rule, after a day or two I get used to it, this time I am really not enjoying it, it's lonely. From when I leave work until when I return again the following morning I see no-one and speak to no-one, save for a phone call or two and call me mad or demented but looking back, I used to talk to Tilly constantly. We had our little routines, she was company, another living being to keep me company, a distraction and a friend.

This is the first time in my life I have been completely on my own that I can recall, any time previously I have had one or other of my cats and here I had Tilly. I hadn't expected to miss her again so much and I can't say I am enjoying what others might call 'peace and quiet'.

It's been a long week.....maybe next week I will begin to get accustomed to it.