Smoke gets in my eyes & the cat's lungs.

We've been smoked out in the caravan for a couple of weeks at least. I thought it was the new hay shed that we built (but haven't quite finished) at the back of the caravan. I thought it was causing a down draft - somehow.
We had to take Weemon our elderly tabby tom back to the vet with a weezey chest the other week. The vet thought it maybe an allergy & I blame the stove. I was scared it was Weemon's heart, or possibly cat flu. The vet couldn't hear Weemon's heart as he was purring too much. He even tried blowing in his face, running a tap - everything he could think of including banning me from stroking the poor cat. He still purred very loudly - as he does. So he gave him a steroid injection & told us to bring him back if he gets worse. He couldn't believe that Weemon's at least 16. He arrived on our doorstop nearly 16 years ago. We put notices up, but later found out he was dumped by someone who sits in the House of Lords. He is still scared of men apart from Jim & the vet who he rather likes even though he something unmentionable to him with a thermometer.
Weemon had a nasty eye injury a while back & saw the same vet. He was really pleased with the way Weemon's eye has healed & so are we.

Today we took the stove chimney down and it was choked with clinker & soot - it's a wonder we could get the stove going at all. It's now on & going a treat without filling the caravan with dense reek - bliss.

I got an email today:
Dear Caroline, Six-Word Memoirist extraordinaire,

Congratulations! Your Six-Word Memoir, "Married Saturday. Left Sunday. Reconsidered Monday" from SMITH Magazine is being published in the new book, It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure, on sale January 5th. (But available for pre-order now!) Thank you and welcome!

Of course, I'm one of the obscure ones.
I forgot I'd sent my micro tale off to them. Funny really as now I'm trying to write longer stories - much longer than 6 words, even longer than 1000 words. Well, I'm procrastinating a lot, in fact a lot longer than I used to.