moments between posts - spectral fat cats, cigars of memory

This also happened today:

18:12 We joke at work about getting a kitten for stress relief; on the stairs fluff gathers in every corner, as if shed by some spectral fat cat.
18:23 Intermittent smell of hacking smokers in filthy jockstraps explained! I'm following a cigar smoker down the street. I overtake.
18:25 Instantly the smell transports me back to the Quiet Woman, where Derek would come in every day for his cigar and a toasted stilton sandwich.