This ginger cat is sitting on the Greenwich Meridian. Not absolutely precisely on the meridian because that's a very thin line and cats are renowned for not being quite where you'd like them to be, but close enough. It's perched on a window ledge on Leven Road, somewhere in the mid-200s, on the northern edge of the Aberfeldy Estate. You can probably feel its steely gaze, although it's possible it's just staring across the road at the new housing estate rising up where the gasworks used to be. Soon the cat will have to decide whether to slink off into the western hemisphere with all its many delights, or instead to take its chances in the eastern hemisphere where most of the planet's land mass is situated. But for now it can carry on straddling the line, mute and immutable.
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This ginger cat is sitting on the boundary between the boroughs of Waltham Forest and Redbridge. This time I know it's in exactly the right location because the fence is the dividing line, making this high vantage point a strong strategic location any apex predator would be proud to occupy. The cat's tail dangles down into Leytonstone, specifically one of the back gardens on Mornington Road, whereas the cat's face is technically above Wanstead Flats. It looks like quite a grizzled face, with one eye definitely not quite right, though it's impossible to say whether the injury was sustained on the roads of Waltham Forest, across the wilder open spaces of Redbridge or via that nasty strip of barbed wire hung along the dividing line itself.
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This ginger cat is running quite fast through the heart of the Old Bethnal Green Conservation Area. Admittedly this isn't quite such a significant location as the previous two, but at least the backdrop is considerably prettier. The cat proved particularly unwilling to be photographed, rapidly retreating from its initial position outside the corner shop and hiding behind a Volvo, but I did manage to capture this view as it dashed off inside a nearby terraced house. Know that this entire feline drama played out on Winkley Street, part of the turn-of-the-century Winkley Estate which is home to the East End's largest surviving concentration of purpose-built furniture workshops. Do not come visiting especially to see the ginger cat.
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