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St Dimitri
Yesterday's weather: cold, mostly sunny.

A friend called at lunch time today to say that they had seen a strange cat near to them and it might be Jazz. They live just over the hills from us and it was quite possible that she had wandered there. Unfortunately the cat he had seen was no longer there but we hung around for a while until we saw a black and white cat eyeing us from a nearby fallen tree trunk.

We've been for a long walk on the hill this afternoon calling and rattling her biscuit box but there is still no sign of her. We haven't given up hope and both of us feel in our bones that she hasn't come to any harm but is around somewhere and will return in her own good time. We have told a few people that she is missing but as she has done this before, even though it wasn't for so long, we don't want to put up notices locally as I feel that every unrecognised cat for miles around will produce a phone call for us building up our hopes - and then when she turns up on the doorstep and goes off again in a few weeks time we would have to do it all over again.

We have to accept that this is part of Jazz's nature and we won't be able to stop her if this is what comes naturally to her. It was a risk we took when we brought her to France and allowed her outside, we are very lucky that neither Misty nor Figaro (aka the Little Bar Steward) want to roam very far at all and always come to greet us when we return home.

Thanks to everyone for their concern over Jazz. I will certainly keep you informed when (I nearly said 'if' and corrected myself), when she appears.