Month: February 2024

It looks like Mimi is getting a new litter tray – Aunty M sent a picture of a flat-pack to M Kaz this afternoon. Wait … it’s a false alarm. Apparently Mimi doesn’t need the privacy and it could be awkward to clean – even with the doors on the side. I know I wouldn’t use it if one turned up here! Just saying.

The Mummies were up in the middle of the night – well, 3.30am, so it’s no wonder M Sooz decided she wouldn’t go down to the Broadwater with M Kaz this morning. It was a shame because looking at the photos, it was quite lovely down there with the walkers, and coffee drinkers, and bike riders and dog people and swimmers. The only thing that could have been better was if the man from the Council hadn’t hosed down the tables and benches just before M Kaz got there. Just as well she’d planned to go for a walk with the camera/phone first so there was time for the seats to dry a bit – either naturally or with the help of someone else’s shorts.

Uncle Wayne and M Kaz were watching a movie the other night – and from what they were saying, it wasn’t very good. And then they decided to watch another one and that was worse! It was so much worse that at one point M Kaz was fast-forwarding through it so they could get past the school break at the lake rudie-nudie footage and go straight to the piranha attacks. They were fairly gory – but by the amount of laughing Uncle Wayne and M Kaz were doing, they were also funny. How could the sight of pre-historic fish chewing people up be funny? And who would have thought that I would have preferred them to be watching Midsomet Murders? Hmm.

But whatever we watch now we’ll have to manage without Uncle Wayne because he went back to Toowoomba yesterday. Yes, it is nice to have my room back but I think we are all going to miss him. It was strange this morning going to the front window and looking out and not seeing him out there doing his Sudoku or reading his Wilbur Smith book on M Kaz’s Kindle machine. He really is no trouble – and he’s very helpful as well. I’m not sure if I am a fan of Tobbie the robot yet but it was nice of him to assemble it for M Kaz.

Well, if I thought M Kaz took a lot of photographs before, I didn’t know what I was talking about. She has a new phone and she is constantly badgering me and taking photographs with it “to see what it can do”. She even took one of me last night in my room – and the light wasn’t even on. The photo isn’t bad – yes, it is a bit fuzzy but given it was completely dark when she took it, it’s not a bad result.

M Sooz is still not totally well so she has been taking it easy a lot of the time. That’s okay because while Uncle Wayne was here, he was able to keep M Kaz entertained – because there’s only so much that I can do.

I think Uncle Wayne is planning to make some changes around here when he comes to house-sit with me later in the year. We’ll see about that – can you imagine me not being on the table or on the kitchen benches or up with the television? I almost feel like drawing up the scoreboard now. NIGEY: X; UNCLE WAYNE: X. Although now that I think about it, since I won’t be able to keep track of the scores on the board (no opposable thumb to let me hold the whiteboard marker), it may be better if I just keep a record of in my blog when the time comes.

Now that Uncle Wayne has left, the rain he brought with him has gone too! If you look at a map of New South Wales, you can tell where he’s planning to go after Toowoomba by where it’s raining. He may be missing his calling – he could be “The Rain Man”.

Do I have to do everything around here? If I’m not being a feline tablet holder or doing robotics quality assurance or keeping
Uncle Wayne company or kissing and cuddling M Kaz’s legs, I know those Mothers are looking for jobs for me. I like to he helpful, as we know, but even a Nigey needs some downtime.

Yes, we are all excited because Uncle Wayne is here and M Kaz has already had him doing a job – Tobbie the Robot, which is not to be confused with Tobbie II which will the next “job” on the list. I think M Kaz is concerned about tackling that one by herself because she saw how intricate Tobbie I was. The man at the shop had told M Kaz it would take 30 minutes or so to put him together. Based on that, “or so” is a unit of time that equals about three hours – maybe longer.

M Kaz loves a project and she has been working away steadily for the past few days getting ready for Aunty M’s very early (by at least two weeks!) birthday breakfast that was this morning at The Marriott. I wasn’t allowed to go – and neither was Mimi. I’m not sure whether they thought ŵe would have caused a ruckus or what, but we had to be content to stay in our respective homes and hear about it when those Mothers arrived home – via Mt Tamborine! Yes it does seem like a roundabout way to get home from Surfers Paradise but it was a lovely day for a drive and for a baguette and cup of coffee at a different French cafe. We know how they all like a good French cafe.

Can you believe M Kaz still hasn’t finished putting those shelves together? There are still three sets to go and while she may say it’s because it’s easier to store them when they’re still flat packs, I think the real reason is she’s been busy doing other things – like spending hours on the phone to Samsung to find out what was happening with the delivery (or not) of her pre-ordered S24U – no … no-one needs to know the details. My eyes are glazing over just thinking about it.

The Mummies have also had a couple of medical appointments for M Sooz in the past week. She still has that “gallbladder-type” pain and while it has been less intense from time to time, it persists. The results of the MRCP scan aren’t back yet but hopefully Dr M will be able to tell her what they are when she sees her on Tuesday morning.

What else has been happening? Rain, sleeping (on Uncle Wayne’s towel), kissing and cuddling M Kaz’s legs, running around like a maddie in the wee small hours of the morning – and in the evening when they’re persisting with watching Midsomer Murders. They’re only a couple of episodes away from the end of Season 20 now – which is, I admit, is a Herculean effort on the part of M Sooz who has only ever binged Holocaust programs and snake-catcher videos before – but, even so, they should let me choose the series they watch next. The only good thing is that the Mummies have been so busy watching Barnaby that there hasn’t been time to get hooked on the new season of Married at First Sight. See, it could always be worse.

I have been a bit busy chasing dinosaurs around Outback and bringing them inside out of the … cold. I dropped one on M Kaz’s Pacific Whale Foundation cap the other day and she wasn’t at all appreciative. More for me!