Sunday (4 Oct 26)

M Kaz has finally taken the hint and acquired a new stringey thing for me. I’m not sure where the other ones are but I suspect they were in the boxes that M Kaz stole from my area when she was decluttering. I’ve been trying to get her to retrieve them so we can play, but she’s been remarkably dense about it. Tonight she saw the light – finally. She had to hunt around for some string (for a new stringey thing) and a rubber band for the end of it. It’s not bad and after we’d had a bit of a go on it, I grabbed it and ran with it – not to my bowl – but Outback this time. M Kaz was a bit surprised and chased me Outback to retrieve it. “It’s mine, not Nigey’s” she kept saying. Hmmm. Let’s talk about “Indian givers” shall we, M Kaz?

I’m not sure those Mummies are going to be glued to the television tonight for the NRL Grand Final. They don’t really follow any NRL team and it’s surprising they know it’s the Knights and the Roosters taking the field. I’m planning to sleep through it because I don’t need to hear questions like “How long are the halves?” (40 minutes, M Kaz, 40 minutes!) “What’s a conversion?” “What’s a conversion worth?” Groan, M Kaz, just groan.

Saturday (3 Oct 26)

The Mummies went to visit Aunty M and Mouse last night to start watching a TV series they’d heard about (’Ann Droid’). While they were there they saw Mimi (previously arch-nemesis now pal) and they had dinner including some wonderful salads – one of them beetroot which M Kaz managed to enjoy without sharing with her shirt. She’s done that before – more than once.

M Kaz has just been out cleaning droppings off the front lawn. They keep appearing. I’m not sure why I haven’t seen who has been dropping them off since I have been looking out there in case ay of my pals wander past. The closed gate might have something to do with it.  She is considering what can be done to stop it.  She has consulted the interweb and it says orange peels, coffee grounds or pet repellant spray. She isn’t sure which way she’s going to go. I just know that she has to do something because we’re all sick of hearing her complaining about picking up someone else’s pet’s poop. As she says, she doesn’t even like doing mine. I don’t know why she doesn’t just leave a note for them imploring them not to do it. I wonder where the poop would end up then.

I have a new box!  I have a new box!  M Kaz brought it home for me – it had something for her in there … but I get to keep the box (until next she decides that I have too many boxes and she secrets it out of the house)!

Friday (2 Oct 26)

I don’t know if M Kaz had trouble sleeping or what but she was up and out of bed way earlier than she usually is – and then she was gone. She came back a couple of hours later and then went straight into the officer to play with photographs of the sunrise. The good news is that I got to be in her spot earlier than usual – mind you, I did spend the night in the bed with the Mummies – despite M Kaz not really moving over for me. That’s the least she could do. But no — anyway, I’m not going to start the day complaining. I could … but I’m not going to.

M Sooz is still not well even though she had her last treatment a few weeks ago. Her legs are hurting and she says it’s like she’s ‘just had chemo’. I don’t think M Kaz really understands what she’s going through but we know that people don’t always until they’ve been through the same thing.

I keep watching outside for any of my buddies but nobody’s been around for a while. I’m not sure why that is because the Cecils are definitely supposed to be out, enjoying the sunshine – and there has been a bit of that lately. When Aunty Wendy, Uncle Wayne and M Kaz’s mother (their mother too) came down on Sunday, they all sat out in the sun to warm up. They’ve left the wooden chair out on the lawn so M Kaz can enjoy the sun there too. I just wish she would take me out there. I’d be good and sit quietly with her. Why doesn’t she believe me when I tell her that. I’ll go and look for my harness/leash, will I?

M Kaz is still watching ‘Midsomer Murders’ although, thankfully, she is not watching every episode all the way through. Sometimes it’s a bit annoying that she does that because even though she can remember all those storylines, I can’t. She’ll watch the first bit and then skip through to the last 20 minutes or so.

Friday (25 Sep 26)

We all had a big sleep-in this morning even M Kaz whose alarm did go off at just after 5 am and even though she got up as if she was going to get dressed, grab the camera gear and go – she but did not.  That was a tiny bit difficult because I had already made myself comfortable in her spot.  She graciously curled her legs around me as she got back into bed so I didn’t have to move.

I’m not used to her taking up room in her bed in the mornings.  We have a system – she gets up and goes off and I take her spot.  I’m not sure why she stayed around this morning – except that once she had her CP machine back on, she was asleep again within … well, it seemed like seconds but it was probably a couple of minutes.  M Sooz was awake a bit longer.  She often is especially as she is still having some pain.  I know there were strong pain killers used last night. 

Nothing really interesting has been afoot at Jannie this week.  Aunty A did come to clean earlier this week, and the yard man almost came … but no. We haven’t seen anyone else.  Although M Kaz did think she saw one of my friends darting off towards the back yard as she was going off to the water earlier this week. Startled was the word she used. She was glad she hasn’t made the change to shorts yet! 

M Kaz is still watching “Midsomer Murders” although sometimes she just starts watching an episode and then jumps to the last 20 minutes or so.  It’s just lucky that M Sooz and I like listening to the theme music.  The good news is that there may be another series – actually M Kaz had started watching “Ann Droid” but stopped because she wanted to watch it with M Sooz and Aunty M.  She has heard some really good reports about it.

I’ll probably be having a nap when they get around to watching it … because everyone knows how much I love my sleep. 

M Kaz has been following me around again this week, taking photos of me sleeping.  She managed to get a video of me waiting for her to finish mucking around at her desk on Wednesday morning – just before she kicked me out so I wouldn’t be “a bother” while she was doing one of her video calls.  I don’t think it’s fair because I don’t make any noise – I’m quite good at being quiet when I kiss and cuddle M Kaz’s legs. She’s the one who makes the racket when I’m affectionate with her.