Tuesday (19 May 26)

I could not believe what I was hearing – and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with my hearing! Aunty Wendy was saying that I should get stuffed, like – as by a taxidermist! What the … she’s supposed to like me – and to add injury to insult, she was saying they should put pivot points in my arms (ahem!) and legs so I could be ‘posed’ in different positions. I didn’t like the sound of that at all. Hmmmm … Uncle Wayne is definitely my favourite sibling of M Kaz’s now. And, yes, M Kaz, we may need to have a talk (a serious talk!) about whether Aunty Wendy is welcome here any mo⁰re. Stuffed … hhrrrmph. And naughty M Kaz for even engaging in the discussion – especially as she wasn’t saying ‘No … I don’t think so’. We may have to think about whether M Kaz is allowed to stay here too!

I do think Aunty Wendy still has love and affection for me though. When she left, she left our bed made and as she texted M Kaz when she sent a photo of me in the bed: ‘I’d told her, I made it special. For her use and mummy 2 when tired’. Okay, okay, I might just let her come back. And no, they aren’t real cats on the bed with me. M Kaz has been playing with that Artificial Intelligence thing again!


M Kaz was very excited in Sunday night when one of her dawn pics was on the ABC Weather.

M Sooz and M Kaz are still going off for those medical appointments. They have scheduled in another regular one now – one morning a week for the next few weeks, M Sooz will have a B12 injection. M Kaz has offered to do it but apparently it has to be done by a nurse or other registered medical professional. A bit boring, I know, but it seems it may be safer that may.

We have had amphibian friends in the front yard again now that it has been raining for a couple of days. I think M Kaz would prefer it if they were thecute green kind – not the brown ones with the very bumpy, rough skin. I don’t care what my friends look or sound like! I’m just happy to have them.

Thursday (14 May 26)

Day 458 and the rain continues.  No, that’s not entirely true.  It’s only been raining for a couple of days but it seems like much longer.  The good news is that the pit/drain that M Kaz had fixed by Jarrod the plumber is working a treat so there is now no swimming pool on the front path.  But there were electricians yesterday – not inside my yard but they were just on the other side of the fence working in the switchbox.  M Kaz thinks the neighbours are having a house battery installed;  she will ask them the next time she sees them.  It’s a pity they can’t harness puppy power – I hear Max (aka Gomez) running around and barking sometimes.  He seems to be living his best life over there which is great for all of them. 

As well as being wet here at Jannie, it is getting colder and as soon as M Kaz goes off to the Broadwater in the morning, I jump straight into her warm spot.  Sometimes I get up as soon as she gets back to smell the coffee tray – that’s if she brings two coffees back – one for M Sooz and one for me – actually, that would be a second one for her.  It doesn’t happen often though so I make the most of it when I can.

M Kaz has bought me another box!  I think she was more interested in the air fryer that came in it – but as long as I scored the box, I’m happy.  Why did the Mummies need another air fryer?  I think it’s all about the eggs. M Kaz found a recipe for ‘soft boiled eggs in the air fryer’ and she tried it in their Ninja XXL Smart Grill but that wouldn’t do a low enough heat.  There may also have been something about the eggs – the new Philips 2000 4.2L has a window in the front – and a light! – so they can watch food as it cooks.  I know … I know … some people are happy with watching a television but we know my Mummies are a bit odd sometimes.  But it wasn’t just the eggs (again) … this one has 13 presets (and yes, M Kaz did count them all) and is quite light so they can take it on their road trips whyen they start doing them again!

Sunday (10 May 26)

Happy Mother’s Day to M Sooz and M Kaz – and to all the other Mothers out there.  It is their special day today where people buy them flowers and presents and take them out for a lovely meal and just pander to them.  That isn’t going to happen here and M Kaz and M Sooz knew that which is why they went to buffet breakfast at the Marriott with Aunty M and her mother and the Markets group.  They had a good time.  I could smell it on their breaths when they arrived home.  I was still in bed at the time – I hadn’t moved since they left except to go out to the kitchen to have a snack – or two, or maybe three.  M Kaz cuddled up to me and started snoring (Nana nap!!!!!!) … which meant it was time for me to get up – and I did. 

Thursday (7 May 26)

What is this? Two times in a week? And why is M Kaz trying so hard to get her foot out of her mouth – no, wait … it’s actually both her feet out of her mouth! Who would have thought M Kaz had lost the capacity to count to five – which is how many are actually going to breakfast on Saturday morning (all going to plan) … NOT four M Kaz. She won’t make that mistake again! Better not anyway.

Finally I have a new friend at Jannie. No, I’m not counting the toad that M Kaz chanced upon on the front path the night before last. This one is small and brown and let me chase them up the hallway and into the Mummies’ bedroom while M Sooz and M Kaz watched Hard Quiz last night. Is ‘scurry’ a word? And does it apply to cockroaches? I think that’s what they were. They are living somewhere in the Mummies’ room now – and no, M Kaz, there’s no reason to go looking for the bug spray. They won’t eat much. I’m not sure if they will get up to anything else though. Fingers crossed!