The word I hear most when I’m cycling in London is ‘wow!’ – as in: ‘Wow! Your cat is so cute. Wow! Can I stroke her? Wow! I’ve never seen a bicycling cat before.’
Harnessed into her basket on my bike, Sigrid – my six-year-old Norwegian Forest cat – adores the attention. But she never hears the cries of ‘wow’. Like many blue-eyed white cats, she is completely deaf. She doesn’t let that stop her from treating life as a