Radiator season has officially started
The heating came on this week, and with it the yearly negotiation over the radiator shelf. There is one radiator in the flat with a hammock hooked onto it, and there are two cats.
The rules, as far as I can tell
Mysh gets the hammock in the morning. Pirozhok gets it after lunch, unless Mysh is still asleep, in which case he sits on the windowsill next to it and stares until she leaves. Nobody has ever seen her actually leave because of the staring, but she does always leave eventually.
The compromise
Last year I put a folded fleece blanket on the floor right under the radiator. It took about a week before anyone used it. Now it is the evening spot, and both of them fit if neither of them thinks about it too hard.
If you are thinking of getting a radiator hammock: get the one with the metal frame. The clip-on kind lasted exactly one jump.