There is a little cat that visits us every once in a while.  We first saw her last October and hadn't seen her in a while.  Geoff and I thought she was mad at us because we wouldn't let her come in our flat back in February.  Tonight, she came wandering by and sat on our step, so we got to play with her a little.  When we got up to go inside for dinner, however, she beat us to the door and came in too.  It took us a little while to convince her to go back outside, but eventually she did. 

It's almost back-to-school time for kids here, and the tourists are beginning to thin out a bit.  Probably a good time for it, as all of Cambridge suddenly smells like poo.  We're not sure where it is coming from, as there are farms surrounding the area, but it's kind of smelly outside right now.  Is it the time of year that all the farms spread manure?  Or is it something else?  On a slightly different note, there was a program on the BBC called "Britain from Above" that looks at different aspects of Britain.  One episode was on satellites and how satellite imagery can be used for a variety of things, other than spy missions.  Using infrared, a French company analyzes the nutrient distribution and a computer program to control a tractor that spreads the necessary amounts of nutrients to the areas that require it.  It could potentially change how crops are grown worldwide, by making agriculture more cost-effective, which I thought was neat.  They also demonstrated the use of satellite imagery to monitor water use.  It is astounding how much information these images offer.  I wish they showed the different wavelengths on Google Earth, but it's probably for the best, as I spend enough time looking at Google Earth images!