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I was sitting in a chair, drinking coffee and typing on my phone. She comes into our house, does the mandatory circuit run and finds me tucked away in a new corner. You can see her search for a space right next to me to climb onto and i made some, moved my things away and created enough of a gap for her to sit in. And she immediately got in there. (SOBS LOUDLY)

Mom says while i was in the loo, she went to the kitchen, to dad’s room, searched in the hall before realising i might be in the loo and settling right outside the door there. She searched for me.

Why is being searched for, being loved by an animal so special? I could cry. I love her so much.

“Theodore had an apparently inexhaustible fund of knowledge about everything, but he imparted this knowledge with a sort of meticulous diffidence that made you feel he was not so much teaching you something new, as reminding you of something which you were already aware of, but which had, for some reason or other, slipped your mind.”

— Gerald Durrell, from ‘My Family and Other Animals’, originally published in 1956. 

“The sea was like a warm, silk coverlet that moved my body gently to and fro. There were no waves, only this gentle underwater movement, the pulse of the sea, rocking me softly.”

— Gerald Durrell, from ‘My Family and Other Animals’, first published in 1956. 

“My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.”

Gerald Durrell - My family and other animals