Month: July 2024

Those Mummies always go out on Saturday mornings and leave me here all alone. I think they think that it’s okay and that I just go back to bed and go back to sleep. Well, that may be the case but it’s a worry that they would think so. But at least M Kaz always says goodbye to me, ‘See you later Nigey’. I do my bit, I’m always waiting for them when they arrive home – whenever that is.

When they arrived home today M Kaz came Outback with me for a while. I’m not sure what she was doing besides soaking up the sunshine and looking at her phone. And then she was gone – leaving M Sooz reading in bed (it is still cold enough for her to do that – she isn’t a sun fan like M Kaz and me and has to warm up as best she can).

And talk about being warm (not), I’ve been cold cold cold in the evenings. Last night I bothered M Kaz until she turned off the television and came to bed. Then I hopped on our bed and M Kaz covered me up with the dinosaur blanket – even though M Sooz was saying she was worried I wouldn’t get enough air but that’s never been a problem before – and it wasn’t last night either because once M Kaz finally made it into bed and I backed up to her legs, I was set for the night. M Sooz did check I was still there – and breathing – several times throughout the night. M Kaz slept through all that, of course, and she slept through M Sooz having a nightmare as well. And she must have been tired because she didn’t get up and go down to the Broadwater to take photographs of the sunrise and pelicans today – I don’t care about that, of course -what I care about is that if she doesn’t go, I can’t have her warm spot when she leaves.

Aunty M came this morning to pick up M Sooz so they could go to breakfast together. I didn’t get up. I had already been up two or three times in the early hours of the morning – waking M Kaz up so she could watch me as I had snacks in the kitchen. I didn’t wake her up every time – she knows that now since she found one of my rubber band friends in my cookie dish when she was getting ready to go down to the Broadwater to take photographs at 5.30 am. It’s a pity she doesn’t like to go earlier because that would work out well for both of us.

Yes, M Kaz, you do have to watch me eat.  That’s what good Mummies do,  It’s no fun eating alone and you know I like having company in the kitchen.  And, yes, it would be good if you could open the door so I can go Outback as soon as I’ve had my brekkie.  And it would be nice if you could get around to emptying my old litter tray too. Chop chop … let’s get too it.  And yes, M Kaz, you are my servant!  I thought you knew that already but obviously you’ve forgetten it this morning. I bet Mimi doesn’t have to keep reminding Aunty M to do things for her!

It is still cold at Jannie. I know this because M Kaz was wearing a puffer jacket last night while they were watching Inspector Barnaby – and M Sooz even had a flannie shirt on.  I cannot believe they are still watching Midsomer Murders – but M Kaz says it’s because they are still doing research for when they go to Barnabyland.  I wonder if they worry that they will end up like the over 500 people who have been killed on that if they visit Midsomer, but M Kaz says they are perfectly safe because in Midsomer you only get “done in” by people you know – quite frequently the last thing a person who is about to be murdered says is:  what are you doing here? – and it’s obviously someone they know.  M Kaz says they won’t know anybody in Midsomer-land, M Kaz so they will be perfectly safe.  I hope she’s right.

As well as being cool, it’s also been grey and overcast and there hasn’t been that much sun so I have been staying mostly inside and curled up on a bed whenever I can.  And yes, the battle of wills over whether I will sit at the television and be friends with it continues.  I’m still winning (I think).

Cold?  Cold?  Yes, it is cold.  It’s so cold that I am a little bit miffed that those Mothers haven’t gotten me a warm puffer jacket like they have.  They’re always saying how warm and toasty they are – and they certainly look as though they are – and whenever they;re off them long enough for me to be in one of them, it feels nice and warm – and puffy.  I don’t know why I can’t have one.  Yes, yes, I know I can go Outback and warm up out there but there have been days when it’s just been overcast and there hasn’t been any sun to speak of.  Ask M Kaz, she’ll confirm that. She’s been feeling the cold too – which is why she’s been wearing a hoodie in the house in the evenings. 

Aunty M was over the other evening and they were watching ‘Derry Girls’ and laughing and laughing.  When she was leaving, she said she saw a huge toad out in the front yard.  M Kaz wouldn’t let me go out and look at it – just in case I wanted to bring it in.  M Kaz wouldn’t let me play with the spider she found in the house the other day either.  She didn’t play with it either – she just let it run under my patio, and watched it, and hoped I wouldn’t find it.  That just made me want to look harder.  But I never did find it.

I’m looking forward to sleeping in M Kaz’s bed tonight.  She has finally put her new flannelette sheets on her bed so I’m hoping they will be warm and toasty! Failing that – I think I’m going to have to work out how to turn on the reverse cycle air conditioner.  I know I’ve always wanted to be a cool cat =- but I’m sick of being a cold cat!