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M Kaz is usually up pretty early in the morning – but she was up even earlier this morning. Aunty W was too. They were dressed and out of the house by just after 5 am. The reason: it’s Anzac Day and they were going down to the Broadwater for their own Anzac Day service with the folk who congregate down there for coffee most mornings. And speaking of coffee, they did take Yeti cups full of coffee with them. I think it was because M Kaz wasn’t sure she could wait the 20 minutes until Pelicanos opened so they could buy their coffee.

When they came back a couple of hours later M Kaz and Aunty W were both soaked to the skin. They were under cover for their ‘service’ but they had braved the rain to get another cup of coffee each – and, of course, the coffee they brought home for M Sooz.

I thought they wouldn’t go out again – but I was wrong. Mind you, though, they did have a quiet morning at home – M Kaz was playing with FaceBook (how many videos of people getting hit with balloons filled with shaving cream and water can she watch?) while Aunty W was chilling and having a phone call with a mate and M Sooz was having a nap – she didn’t sleep that well again last night.

I was very thirsty today and luckily M Kaz saw me with my head completely in Aunty W’s glass – trying to drink water, but not quite able to get my head in far enough. She filled the glass for me and was kind enough to take photographs (and a video) of me drinking and sent it to Aunty W so she could see what I’d been up to. It didn’t phase her tough – I think she’s used to be around furry folk that share food and drink with her.

Would you believe that come Monday, I have been living with the Mummies for five (long) years? I wonder if they will surprise me with an anniversary party or something.

The Mummies and Aunty W watched a movie set in Amsterdam last night. It was called “iHostage” and was about a man who had left his earbuds on the train when he arrived in Amsterdam and then went to the Apple store to get a new pair.  While there, he was taken hostage by a man wearing an explosive vest and carrying a machine gun. It was based on a true story. Luckily that didn’t happen to M Kaz after she’d left her earbuds on the boat in Amsterdam.

Happy Easter – although why it’s ” Happy” given what Easter is all about is beyond me. shouldn’t the “Happy” bit just relate to when JC comes back? Just as well theological questions aren’t something 1 debate with those Mummies – or anyone else really. As long as there’s chocolate -and there is … lots of it because M Kaz won the 2nd prize at the Pelicano’s Easter Raffle – on a redraw because the “real” winner couldn’t be contacted. How lucky for us that Jeff pulled M Kaz’s name out of the box. It is an awesome prize and will keep the Mummies and their family and friends and neighbours full of chocolate for a little while.

The Mummies have finally started watching a new television series about birds. It’s called ” Black Doves”. Funny that they haven’t seen any birds yet and they’ve finished the first three episodes already. Wait, I tell a lie, a flock of black birds did fly over at one point but they didn’t seem crucial or even critical to the story line at all. The Mummies did seem to enjoy it even though there is a bit of violence: three people were dead before the opening credits in the first episode. They were crucial to the story line.

We have been having glorious weather. Usually it rains over Easter but the only thing it’s raining is the yellow blossoms from the Golden Penda trees. It’s funny that neither Mummy can remember them from previous years – maybe because they don’t flower every year.  Or maybe they didn’t flower as much the last couple of years.  I can’t believe they wouldn’t remember the yellow “snow” from year to year.

Was that M Kaz crying into her bowl of frozen pineapple chunks this morning? Between her sniffles I think I made out the words ‘there aren’t any more … there aren’t any more’. It’s pretty sad. It’s only pineapple chunks for goodness sake. ‘No, not just pineapple chunks – frozen pineapple chunks!’ I heard M Kaz saying (read: weeping) a little while later. It seems that Aldi has stopped selling their ‘LIMITED TIME ONLY’ frozen pineapple chunks and it may be months before they start selling them again – if at all. M Kaz has tried them from other supermarkets, but they are just not the same.

To cheer M Kaz up this afternoon I let her take me to the vet so they could do my nails. It has been a while so M Kaz will be very relieved that her legs won’t have to endure so many lacerations when I am kissing and cuddling her. While we were there, the vet also checked that bare patch of skin under my neck and she wasn’t concerned about it. The good news is that whiIe I still do have my heart murmur, it doesn’t seem to have progressed past the level 3 it’s been sitting on since it was first diagnosed nearly five years ago.

The vet is concerned a little about my teeth and she have booked me in for a treatment later this month. They are also planning to have the Mummies sedate me before my appointment so they can finally get close enough to me to do those blood tests I have kicked and screamed about the last few times I’ve been there: the word ‘Spitfire’ had been mentioned.

That’s all changed now though (not the spitfire bit). Not long after we’d gotten home, M Kaz received a phone call from the vet saying that since I hadn’t had a blood test for a while, she wasn’t prepared to do my teeth until they can confirm was going on with my heart. No, a blood test won’t do. I have to see a cardiologist. So I no longer have an appointment to have my teeth done but M Kaz does have the name and number for Geoff so she can arrange for my ECG. I’m not that keen on going down that track so I’m going to ask M Kaz if she can ring Aunty Madeleine (she’s a vet too) and see what she says. Failing that, I think I am going to insist that those Mummies get a second (or third) opinion.

I thought M Kaz was trying to do a better job of keeping my blog up to date – but I was wrong. I know she means well and all but she just gets busy doing other stuff. Well, that’s what she tells me – and herself. But she’s doing it now so I’m not going to complain anymore

I’m just trotting off to my bedroom to have a nap so I’ve got lots of energy to go galloping around Jannie tonight after “lights out”. And then I’ll go and sleep on their legs again. Yes, I’ve been doing that this week again before the weather has turned cooler. It’s so much cooler than it used to be – cool enough that M Sooz isn’t putting the Vortex fan or the air conditioning on. And, yes, M Kaz is very excited about sleeping in a warmer room-especially when I’m on the bed with them. Not that I sleep with them all the time: I do have my own bed which I love too and which doesn’t have Mummies all over it. I think they think I take up a lot of room – but they take up so much more!

There’s no word yet of when Uncle Wayne is coming back to Jannie so there’s still time for those spray bottles to have a big rest. The one at the front door has disappeared and now if I get too close to the door when either of those Mummies is coming or going, M Kaz pretends she has the spray bottle by making a stupid squirting/squishing sound. She’s not very good at it.

A new series – to replace “Midsomer Murders” and “Call The Midwife” still eludes the Mummies. People down at the Broadwater, in the morning while M Kaz is there, have suggested shows they might like to watch, but naught has come of that yet. Those Mummies did watch half of “Little Women” last night and I’m looking forward to seeing the end of it tonight. Did I mention they got dinner from Noodle Box last night and there was loads left over so I know what they’ll be having tonight. Maybe – you know how they are sometimes about their food.

Despite M Kaz’s protestations – and that she did manage to get a photograph of the bare patch of skin under my neck, she still hasn’t managed to get me to the VET to have it checked out.  I don’t know if I should be concerned or not