While the cat’s been getting on with the proofreading, I’ve been reading Mary Beard’s ‘Pompeii: the life of a Roman town’ – a refreshing mix of scholarship and common sense.
Some cunning archaeologist has figured out from the wear on the paving stones that Pompeii must have had a one-way system. Looking at the width of most of the streets, it’s the only sensible explanation. Before we get too excited about this triumph of town planning, however, we need to bear in mind that they also seem to have had an amphitheatre to hold 20,000 people which had no toilets at all. (Maybe that’s what the famous fight with the Nucerians [AD59] was all about?)
This will be the only cat photo, I promise.
Ruth Downie 
Whats the cats name ? I am a massive lover of cats and have 2 myself, Saphire and Jossie
Murphy, on the grounds that a black and white cat ought to be called Guinness. Well, it made sense at the time.
He’s another in a long line of strays that’s turned up in response to the magic words, ‘Let’s not get another cat, they’re too much trouble…’
Cat = Dog – affection
I wonder who did the first Pompeii lava lamp joke?
Not sure about the cat and the proofreading. Donna Moore’s Virgil was very intelligent, but his spelling was a little off most days.