Month: September 2025

I don’t know where my little (?) friend has vanished to. I know he is in Jannie somewhere but try as I might I cannot find him. I know he is here because M Kaz saw him yesterday afternoon. She was sitting at the table reading when she caught a glimpse of him disappearing under the cupboard. He gave her a bit of a startle because he is bigger than the other dinosaurs who come in to play with me. Never mind. He will show up again – probably running over someone’s foot when they least suspect it!

M Kaz is decluttering her office again – and this time I think she is actually doing it. Yesterday she carried out three big bags – one for the rubbish and the other two are destined for the Lifeline shop. I’m not sure I agree with some of the things she’s moving on – like my motorised dinosaur but if someone can get some use of it, that would be a good thing. I only like my live dinosaurs these days. She has been rearranging things as well and she has made room on the rolltop desk (she actually managed to roll the top down!) for the new typewriter so we are definitely going to be hearing the sound of old-fashioned typing around here now. And what was that mad scrambling for the white-out and correction fluid that I heard before?

Even though it is getting warmer, I am still sleeping with them on the bed. No, I am not taking up too much room – just enough. Yes, I could not be sideways on the bed but it’s more comfortable for me this way and M Kaz does manage to sleep around me. I’m sure it’s actually helping with her sore back. And she must like taking photographs of me.

It is Spring and there are patches of sunshine Outback most of the day now. I love rolling around in them on the warm concrete. And if I’m not there, I’m up on the cat tower – surveilling the territory for dinosaurs and whatever other little friends can make their way into the enclosure.

That M Kaz is going to need to find a new hobby now that she won’t be checking on where in the world is her typewriter since it has arrived safe and sound at Jannie. I think she liked watching it visit places where she has been – England, Cologne, Louisville, Sydney and Brisbane.

Mind you it looked as though she might have to cut her Yum Cha short this morning when she found out that the typewriter was at Jannie and she was not. It was amazing that the courier company didn’t let her know that they were on the way. The first she knew was when she received an email saying the package had arrived and showing a photograph of it on the path inside the gate. At least they put it inside the gate! The good news is that the neighbours were able to rescue it so M Kaz didn’t feel she needed to race home to retrieve it. We all know she would have.

She’s not the only one who’s excited that it’s here. M Soozloves the sound of typing on a real typewriter and I love that I scored the box it came in. I’m only getting to sit on the top of the box, though, until M Kaz empties out all the packing material Charlie Foxtrot put in there to protect Ollie (or is she going to call it ‘Squishy’) in transit. Now we just have to wait and see how long it will take M Kaz to sell the other two typewriters – she says she’s only going to keep two – Squishy/Ollie and the Remington Auntie Wendy gave her. Yes, that does mean a farewell to the yellow one and the other Olivetti that does the cursive script. (I wonder if she will get rid of the surplus cameras at the same time?)