Month: January 2022

Me:  It’s a shark!  It’s a shark!
MKaz:  I didn’t say that Nigey. I said it’s a “Hammerhead”.  That’s a plant.  That’s what the white flowers are.  Blah … blah … blah.

Yes, I stopped listening about then because M Kaz does go on a bit sometimes (well, a lot of the time actually).  The conversation came about because I was staring out the window and the Mummies were trying to work out what I was looking at … and M Kaz had come over to the window to look too.  That’s when she said “hammerhead” – and I admit to being a bit surprised because even though it has been raining a bit lately, I hadn’t realised it had rained so much that marine life would be encroaching into our yard. Apparently not … as it turns out. Who knew that hammerheads are plants … and what a strange thing to call them.  I suppose it’s no stranger than… well, you get the idea.

M Kaz took off with her camera this morning to do some photography in the Botanic Gardens and when she came back a couple of hours later, she told us that she had managed to take only a few photographs because she had ended up having coffee with their mate Ro over at the Gardens.  That was totally unexpected… especially as M Kaz had thought she was going off to wander the garden paths by herself and maybe photograph a bird or two. How plans change! But she did manage to get a couple of bird photographs. She could have done some bird photographs without having to leave home, of course, but … no, the birds are apparently better at the Gardens. 

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe … let’s see … where shall I sleep this time?  There is no shortage of options of spots around the house … and it’s nice to spread myself around so the Mummies don’t think I don’t like having the spots available.

I think Aunty M was a bit surprised when she found me sleeping among the sloths when she arrived this evening for the restitution of “video nights with the Mummies”. 

They were supposed the be watching “Mare of Easttown”  but Mummy Kaz had not done her homework and they had to watch something else as well … “Annika” on ABC iView.  M Kazbah had watched the first episode already and had decided she would wait for M Sooz and Aunty M before watching anymore just in case they liked it and wanted to watch it too.  Judging by their reactions, they do want to … but are going to have to have the Subtitles turned on so they can all understand what is happening with the Glasgow Harbour Watch.  Who knew the Scottish accent could be so hard to understand? And, yes, they were speaking English!

It rained again today but it was dey just long enough for the grass to dry out so M Kaz could mow part of the lawn.  She will (she assured herself) Do the rest of the lawn tomorrow – if the grass is dry enough. 

And speaking of rain, I think Kaz fancies herself a bit of a Frog Whisperer. During last night’s rain there was a frog croaking (no, not that type of croaking) outside their bedroom and when she’d had enough of the noise, she told it to pipe down … and it did!  No one was more surprised than she … although M Sooz and I were right up there!

It’s still hot and that means the fans are on as the Mummies try to stay cool. Me? I’m just hanging around, trying to be cool … on the table, behind the ironing board, under the couch, on the couch pretending I’m a sloth … with all the other sloths … and there are a few of them. They are quite wonderful and I am sure they would be quite friendly if they could talk and I think they might even float which would have been very helpful if the Tsunami had hit the East Coast of Australia the other day. The Mummies were ready for it, in that they were going nowhere near the waterfront until they were absolutely sure the Tsunami Possibility had passed. This is why I’m glad that we live on the other side of the hill!

Nothing much has been happening here at all – except that Mummy Kaz has been head down tail up in her study … studying. I have been being as helpful as any cat can and she seems appreciative … some of the time. Yes, yes, I know I take up a little bit of room on her desk – and there’s not a lot there with the extra monitor and the laptop stand – but we make do. And it obviously helped because she received a very nice “Satisfactory” for the assignment she received back yesterday. Apparently, Satisfactory is the highest mark she can get on an assignment – but she was happy with the comments that came back with it.
Come to think of it, I have been playing with my paper bag – so much so that I need a new one now because it’s more hole than bag now.