It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here! Uncle Wayne has been visiting and the Mummies have had him doing jobs around the place again. This time they had him putting up the solar Christmas lights. The most amazing thing about that is that they still work – given the ones they had him put up have been sitting in the drawers near the front door since I arrived here five years ago! M Kaz is not one to rush things. And Christmas light fixing technology has come a long way since then – with little sticky things now available that will adhere to most surfaces to allow the fixing of the lights.
Uncle Wayne has fashioned a Christmas tree out of some of the lights on to the fence in the front court yard and those are not currently programmed to do anything flash, and he’s framed that with flashing coloured LED lights. It was that set of lights that he’s had to replace the rechargeable battery in – who knew they become unable to hold their charge after some time in the box. To be fair, M Kaz thinks they’d probably lose their ability to hold the charge if they’ve been used to.
That’s outside. Inside, for the first time in a good few years – since the year after I arrived – Christmas trees have appeared. The bigger LED tree has not been plugged in – I may have tried to chew on the electricity cord the first year I was here. M Kaz has festooned both that tree and the little tree with strings (metals?) of battery-operated lights. They’re pretty – Santas, gingerbread me (or are they reindeer), caravans and coloured balls.
I think M Kaz likes them – I came in the other night and she was just sitting on the couch, in the dark except for the Christmas lights, just watching them. It won’t be long until they start listening to Christmas music. (Update: I was right. It’s started!)
When they were buying Christmas light supplies, M Kaz also bought something I hate. They were billed as ‘commercial quality’ so it’s just wrong that she is using them on me. What are they? Bl**dy spray bottles – and they are so much better (worse?) than the one Uncle Wayne had while those Mummies were away because it doesn’t need to be ‘primed’ – just point and press the trigger and every time a stream of water spurts out. Grrrrr. There’s been a bit of spray bottle action since the Christmas tree came out – and more now that M Sooz has her nativity scene out. It’s going to be a long time until 12th Night when they all came down.
Another job the Mummies had for Uncle Wayne was putting up some security cameras Aunty Wendy had given them. I have been trying to tell the Mummies that having the camera out in my area constitutes an invasion of my privacy but they don’t seem to be listening. I’ve fixed their little red wagon though – I’ve now worked out that if I go to top of the (Mimi) cat tower, the cameras register me as ‘human’ and that triggers a notification on M Kaz’s phone. Heh heh – and I know that she’s set the notifications from the cameras to sound even when her phone’s on ‘do not disturb’ at night. I am going to have some fun with that.
Nigella ... 