I was working from home and Pancake came to visit me in the office. She spotted a ball of thread on a shelf and then tried to sneak it to play with it – and every time I looked at her, she pretended to have no interest in it whatsoever, like it just happened to be there on the floor next to her.

I sent Pancake back out to the kitchen and put the string away. Two hours later, while I was on a call…