I love the new electric blanket! Sooz sometimes has it on during the day and it’s wonderful to cuddle up next to her and have a nap. It would be even better if they let me sleep on it all the time but they are still insisting on locking me out of the bedroom at night. I showed them the other night though – just as Kaz was getting ready to put me out (do they not realise I can hear what they are saying?), I dove under the bed so she couldn’t reach me. She is so predictable! She went out to the kitchen and rattled my cat cookies as though I would go running for them: nope. Next she pretended she was opening the door to outside as though I would make a dash for it: nope. And then she settled in bed pretending she was going to sleep as though I would fall for that trick and jump up on to the bedside table: nope … almost. I managed to resist for nearly half an hour and then I only came out because I was positive Kaz couldn’t possibly still be pretending to be asleep; usually her head hits the pillow and she drifts off mid-sentence – usually hers! But no … she was still awake and before I knew it, the light was on (does she not realise how sensitive my eyes are?), she was sitting up in bed, scooping me up and, laughing manically (or so it seemed to me), carrying me out to my bed on the couch in the living room – before she ran back to the bedroom, calling out over her shoulder something that sounded like “night Nigey” and then “Karen: 1 Nigella: none” – and then I couldn’t hear any more because she shut the bedroom door. Sometimes crying outside the closed door will get me back in, but I had no doubt that it wouldn’t this time.
Kaz has been getting up a bit earlier – her alarm goes off just after 7 (so she can feed me) but often she hits the snooze button and goes down for a bit more of a kip. Not the last couple of days though … there has been noise somewhere outside and she has been getting up and coming to stand in the bathtub to look out my window. It turns out the neighbours have put in a new garden shed – which peeks just over the side fence, but it’s almost the same colour as it, so that’s not too bad. I don’t know what they’re going to be like when they start putting that lighting tower up out the back. I reckon that will be a bit noisy.
I really freaked Sooz out the other day. I know she’s not that keen on having Cecil in the yard so the other day, when we were home alone, I sat at the glass doors in the bedroom just looking around intently. She didn’t know what I was looking at … which was a big nothing … but it really did have her going. I heard her tell Kaz about it when she got home.
And speaking of them getting home … and I think this has a lot to do with Cecil, or maybe just that the sensor light doesn’t cast enough onto the front door, but when they come home at night know, Kaz is wearing a light on her head! It looks odd, and it’s really bright, but they both seem to think it’s a good idea.
Nigella ... 