

There once was a cat called Molly, who decided to live under a trolley. If you asked her why, she’d refuse to reply. And then she’d give you the stink eye.
My latest money-spinning idea for Lush Places is to write a series of children’s books about our collection of motley animals. How hard can it be?
As the above attempt demonstrates, quite hard. It is not quite up there withMolly does not, unlike Hairy Maclary’s nemesis, the terrorising tomcat Scarface Claw, have tearaway adventures. She doesn’t do anything except lie under the tea trolley. I concede this might not make for a terribly exciting cat book.