Kasia Tomaszewska

Tilly's Trove

Matilda the Cat, known as Tilly, was on her daily patrol, checking out what was new in the garden. Lots of smells and sounds. Resting in a deck chair I was watching her progress. A while ago we had some field mice around, they had even ventured into the house, so I was curious if they came back after we had politely removed them to the neighbourhood fields. Tilly was visiting all the nooks of the garden. She kept returning to one place by the wall by an apple tree. I got up to get some drink and I stopped by her. I noticed something black lying on the grass. Had to fetch my glasses from the lounge and when I put them on I saw a little black book. I used my gardening gloves to pick it up, just in case, and placed it on the garden table. It did look familiar, I had to see it somewhere. After opening the cover I recognised where I knew it from. Not long ago I was browsing through the bookshop to find a birthday gift for my friend and there it was. A Moleskine notebook. I finally chose something else, but had a good look at the notebook first.