Nigella …

Okay, I don’t care what anyone says, I’m going back to bed. Kaz can call me and whistle and click her fingers as much as she likes but I am quite comfortable here. We’ll play stringy thing when I want to! Yes you heard me, she whistles me as if I’m some type of dog! The cheek … the indignity … the oh so many opportunities to thwart her trying to exercise her will over me. Doesn’t she realise who’s the boss around here? Well, actually we all know it’s Sooz but that’s besides the point. I am #2 or should that be #1 like in Star Trek where the second in command is called #1 … and no I don’t need to be reminded that #1 is a dog in the new Picard series. It would have been more believable if it was a cat … the only saving grace is that the dog can’t act (or maybe it’s “won’t”) and they’ve had to rework scenes to account for that. Heh heh … I can just see it … Captain Jean-Luc Picard, now 90 (his age – he hasn’t slipped in rank that much!), calling for his tea (Earl Grey … Decaf – really he did, he put that in as a joke) and his faithful companion … me! I wouldn’t go when he called me either! I like sleeping way too much.
Kaz and Sooz sometimes play “Where’s Nigey” with me on the bed where they cover me up with the sheets and then say “Where’s Nigey” and then they pull the sheets back so they can see me and say “There’s Nigey” then we all do it again a few thousand more times. We hadn’t played it this week so I decided to start them off by climbing under the table cloth … they were a bit surprised but they got the hang of it pretty quickly. They’re good like that!

What a busy life Kaz and Sooz seem to have! They leave me at home, alone, for hours at a time and they expect me to not get into any trouble! As if!  But at least they haven’t left me alone overnight for a while – but they are still locking me out of the bedroom!   At least I have Pinkie to keep me company. Good ol’ Pinkie. 

I keep moving Pinkie around the house – it makes them happy to find him in different places. “Look, there’s Pinky”. They have no idea he’s ambidextrous (I think that’s the right word). Sometimes it’s Pinkie, others it’s Pinky.

I don’t know why it’s been so hot lately. I’ve been mostly camping out in the second bedroom – now “my” bedroom, ever since Kaz cleared off the couch in there.

They’ve been leaving the front door open (the screen door is locked of course) and l’ve been sitting on the cat mat (yes, yes, we all know it … the cat sat on the mat) watching the grass on the front lawn grow – we’ve had a bit of rain over the last few days. The frangipanis are blossoming too. And how noisy are those frogs, and the wildlife in the reserve over the back fence? Heh heh … speaking of wildlife, sometimes when I’m watching the grass, and I hear Kaz behind me, I pretend I’m watching a snake out there. She really freaks out!

“Look we fooled Nigey.” “It works every time.”. Well it does … but only because I’m playing along. It’s funny because on one hand they go around telling everyone who will listen (and probably even some that don’t) how absolutely clever and intelligent I am (and I believe I am) and then they think they fool me with something as obvious as a simple misdirection!  Still … they enjoy it so don’t go telling them I’m working on my own tricks here.

I am not sure what is happening with them but they keep talking about how much I’ve grown.  They went back over all the photos in my blog today and while they said I looked quite tiny in lots of them, the consensus now is that they have something akin to a panther on their hands … me (big smiley face icon!)!