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A short foster diary

  This is a Rosemary Remembrance Cake (from Feast by Nigella Lawson). It is quite possibly the most soothing and comforting companion to commemorations ever. And the following is a little diary I kept 2 years ago: We have a new cat coming to stay with us. A young adult cat, called something like Mystique or Mystic, very scrawny, very ill, hasn't eaten in two weeks, they've done many tests, but everything comes back clean, probably just needs some TLC - they told us. Day 1 (Friday, 31/01/2020) Mystery (her actual name) arrived between 5-6pm. There'd been a development, apparently. They had run some more tests and it turns out she has kidney failure. So, she will need to take half of this tablet a day and half of that one (the vet has halved those for you already). And she's on strict RENAL food, and, oh yes, this here is an IV, just in case she takes a turn for the worse and needs to be taken to the vets with the drip in her vein. Oh. Right. As soon as her delivery part