Month: October 2021

Is Uncle Wayne a turtle? They are fascinating animals with 26 species in Australia alone according to petsdomain.com.au. So what characterises a turtle and why would I think Uncle Wayne might be one? It’s that turtles carry their homes around on their backs with them. Snails do too but Uncle Wayne moves way too fast to be a snail.  What’s that? He doesn’t have a shell … well, anyone who says that hasn’t seen the photograph Kaz showed me. Uncle Wayne looks very happy standing in front of his new shell. You can tell it’s a new shell because it has a big red bow on it.

I hope now that he has his shell he will come back, because I miss him already and I think the Mummies do too.  He was only here overnight this time … he was here for Wednesday night Trivia … and to cook the team some scones … he’s a thoughtful Uncle Wayne … and a decent cook! He’s gone back to Toowoomba but he says he’s going to be back in a couple of weeks’ time. He’s going off camping before that though to see if his shell needs any “tweaking”.  He’s clever enough to do the “tweaking” himself.

Horse! Horse! I’m sure that’s what it was. They came back today from “breakfast” and they reeked of horse. Usually when they come back from “breakfast” they carry the faint yet delectable aroma of coffee, bacon and eggs and toast. This is definitely not acceptable. And it wasn’t just horses. They were hanging out with pee-wees as well. For all I know, next time they go out to “breakfast” they’ll be sneaking off to see other cats. And we do know they know lots of them.

We are all missing Uncle Wayne but I’m hoping he’ll be back on Tuesday – so he can make scones for Trivia on Wednesday night. He really likes making them – and to hear the Mummies talk about them, he’s really good at it too- especially when he uses his drill to do the cream out in the car park because it’s better when it’s freshly whipped.

The garden is growing so quickly at the moment, probably because it has been raining lots and lots – and not just raining but there have been big scary storms: what do they say “thunder and lightning- very very frightening”? Well, it’s been like that.

And toads have been falling from the sky! There was one upside down next to the path the other day which the Mummies insisted on moving before I could get anywhere near it. And they saw another one playing with a bird across the street. It looked to them like the bird was winning.

The kitchen was a bit bare earlier this week – well they did have some cookies for me but neither of the two types they had was/were the ones I like. (Time for Nigey to take grammar lessons?) But my Fancy Feast did get its place back on the menu yesterday. I don’t know why they think I’ll eat just anything out of a packet – I’ve never given them any indication that I’m anything less than extremely careful about what I choose to eat. But I am cute!

Nooo … he’s gone … he’s gone … Uncle Wayne has returned to Toowoomba leaving me all alone with the Mummies.  But I have my bedroom back so now I can use it during the day and during the night. 

Mind you, I have taken up sleeping in the basket of my cat tower again … now that that rabbit has been evicted and there’s room for me in there … some would say not quite enough room but they could be being uncharitable.

It’s going to be odd not having Uncle Wayne around … asking me to move away from the door when they went in or out, waving the red water bottle at me as though he was going to squirt me – but of course he never does although he did make the squishy and sloshy sounds a few times, as thought that would scare me.  Hmmm … Uncle Wayne’s a bit silly sometimes. Now that he’s gone, I’m hoping that the Mummies will stay at home with me a bit more rather than taking Uncle Wayne out to see the sights … they went to see peacocks and geese and they had a breakfast in France (or was that a French breakfast?) and they even went to BrisVegas to see some paintings … and water dragons.  And did they bring me back a water dragon? No they did not.  And it’s not as though there weren’t lots of them … I’ve seen the photos Uncle Wayne took … it would have been nice if he’d left me copies.