Month: September 2024

Those Mothers are still not letting me outside by myself – well, we know they wouldn’t let me “outside” outside, but they should be able to let me Outback – like they promised. Although, it has started to be a bit cooler and even when I have been able to get Outback, I have been choosing to stay inside.

Last night I was relaxing on M Sooz’s recliner – because nothing could be finer … (You sang the rest of that ,didn’t you ? I know M Kaz did ! ) . I don’t – know where the time goes, and neither does M Kaz except they did go to the Sunday Markets for a few hours today to catch up with everyone. They seem to have had a good time – and the coffee was good. Don’t quote me but I think I could also smell the remnants of a German sausage or two on their breaths . I notice they didn’t bring me home any . They’re mean like that.

Those Mummies did go to Toowoomba on the weekend and they seemed to have a good time without me. I’m willing to bet they didn’t even think about me here, home, all alone, by myself, running around, searching for them high and low – until Aunty M came to see me. I did my best to look as though I was hungry – starving – and hadn’t eaten since the Mummies had left.  It worked because Aunty M sent the Mummies a message with a picture of me looking almost positively gaunt. It wasn’t easy.

The Mummies arrived home on Sunday afternoon and almost immediately went into their room and had “nana naps”, and then (finally) routine prevailed and they sat down to watch an episode of “Midsomer Murders”. I wanted to tell them what was going to happen – but M Sooz prefers it to be a surprise. I really don’t see how it can be since they’re up to about the gazillionth time through them.

M Kaz’s sister gave both the Mummies birthday presents while they were in Toowoomba. M Sooz’s was L’Occitane products plus a girl bag for putting her toiletries in for their upcoming trip. M Kaz got Bob – her “one in a minion’ blankie, and I would suggest that she may be planning to take Bob with her wherever she goes from now on – here or abroad.

Also coming back from Toowoomba with them is “the hat” which is currently with bear but which M Kaz may use when they are in colder climes.

It is bit cooler now – it had been quite warm over the last week – so I have moved back in with the Mummies at nighttime. I don’t know why it is that they take up so much room in the bed but it is a little annoying that they do. I do my best to carve out enough real estate for me but it isn’t always easy with their legs all over the place, and it doesn’t help that M Kaz does ‘bed goes up’ and then sleeps with it that way. It’s even worse when she puts the massage-thingey on. Is it any wonder that I sometimes go and sleep in on Uncle Wayne’s bed?

Despite their assurances that I would be allowed to stay Outback while they were out, that has yet to happen. I’m not sure what they’re so worried about. It’s not that I can get out – although M Kaz was saying to me the other day that she wasn’t sure that I would know to go inside and hide under their beds if anything happened. I take it that didn’t mean Chris coming with all his noisy equipment. That was yesterday. He had a chainsaw (yes a chainsaw – strange because we don’t have any trees!), and a lawnmower, and a blowey-thing, and a whipper-snipper and probably other stuff as well – which didn’t make much of a noise. It looks as though someone cares what Jannie looks like now. It certainly didn’t before.

The Mummies are off to Toowoomba tomorrow to see M Kaz’s sister about some sewing, and to catch up with the family.  It’s been a couple of months since they’ve been up there.  Before they go, I spent some time running around Jannie this evening to show them how much I am going to miss them, before finally coming to rest in the dryer.

Aunty M came around this afternoon so M Kaz could help her set up her new phone. It took a little while. but that was M Kaz’s fault because she hit the back button in the middle of the download of something called a system update – and it had to start over again. But in the end it was all done except for the downloading of all the apps that Aunty M had on he.r old phone which had transferred over to the new phone – like magic.
To thank the Mummies, Aunty M shouted them dinner – and she gave me some chippies too. I only ever want a taste of things – and that was enough tonight – I didn’t even want any chicken.

Sunday
Where have the last couple of days disappeared to? It’s Sunday evening already and those Mummies have settled in to water another episode of Midsomer Murders. I like to call it Nigey-Mummy-Together-Time. I snuggle up against M Kaz’s foot and then, after she’s patted me a bit, I reciprocate by giving her feet a bit of … affection. I think she has another name for it. I think she calls it Nigey-Mummy- Bitey-Time. Heh heh. I might call it that too. It seems fitting.
While they watched Inspector Barnaby, I went on the hunt for dinosaurs (or cracodiles as M Sooz calls them) and found one. What was it those Mummies said as I tried to play with it: Nigey doesn’t understand how glass works. Well, I think I do. Glass means that the dinosaur is outside and I’m not, even though I can see them and almost touch them, I can not. I’m not sure the dinosaur even knew I was there. I looked out the other window later but I couldn’t see where it’d gone.