Nigella …

Happy Valentines Day to me.  Happy Valentines Day to me.  Happy Valentines Day dear Nigey, Happy Valentines Day to me.  So, the big question is, does Valetines have an apostrophe?  The next question is – are those Mummies going to do anything special for me for Valentines Day?  They didn’t last year (not that I can remember anyway) but maybe this year they will do something nice like … well, they do nice things for me a bit so it may be hard to think of just one thing. 
I am enjoying the new box that came with their air fryer.  I admit it – I have foresaken all others for it – including my ‘it used to be my favourite’ mango box.  It doesn’t even come close these days. 

The weather here has been a bit changeable – rainy in the morning and then sunshine in the afternoons, and then rain again in the evenings.  I don’t mind – it’s good to have the variety, and I’m hoping some of my little friends will come into the Outback to play with me.  Like the dinosaurs.  And the tiny frog things (I think they’re actually little toads).

HAL has been a bit quiet.  M Kaz has been meaning to re-program him so he does the rooms only once but to do that she has to find the instruction manual and I think that’s one of those things she has put ‘in a safe place’ and therefore may be lost forever.  At least she can look it up on the interweb.  She just needs to make time to do that.  And to do the photobook of their trip to Europe last year.  I really don’t know what she does with her time – although she did spend part of Tuesday with Sydney the dog the other day. She ran a taxi service from where their mate Roz was housesitting him down to another friend of hers who runs a motel down at Burleigh Heads.  It was good of her to do that – on a couple of levels.  We know she isn’t really a dog person AND she and M Sooz could have brought Sydney here to stay.  I’m glad they didn’t although, to be fair, the only other dog I know is Bronte, and we did get on (even though he is a Great Dane and the size of a small pony). 

M Kaz does keep on trying, I’ll give her that. In the last week she’s given me three different of cookies and several different types of wet food. She does love me; even when I turn up my nose at everything she offers me to eat. I sometimes don’t but that hasn’t been the case lately.

I slept on the Mummies’ bed the other night. I had to leave my table box to do it, of course, but it was cool enough to be in there at the moment. I still like it outside best though but sometimes I just want to be with them – and watch M Kaz staying as still as she can lest I spag her while she’s sleeping. I’m sure she thinks it would make a change from spagging her while she’s awake. That would also be known as cuddles and kisses while she’s sitting at the table – ignoring me. I know she doesn’t mean to (ignore me) but she gets so involved in doing “stuff” she sometimes forgets to look down and pat me.

I do have a talent for picking a moment when she is deep in concentration to lavish my attention and affection on her. I do try to attract her attention by first rubbing my head against her leg but that doesn’t always work.

What M Kaz thinks does works is the spray bottle. I’m letting her think it does. I don’t think she’s noticed I’m getting closer to the front door every day. Not long now and I’ II be able to waltz straight out. And I have the television in my sights as well.

M Kaz has started locking herself in her office again – I think it’s because she’s ‘gone back to work’.  She seems to be having a good time and doesn’t seem to mind that we on the other side of the door – that would be me and M Sooz – could be missing her when she’s locked in there.  I said ‘could’.

I’ve never thought of M Kaz as an Indian Giver – but she earned her place there today.  She came home from seeing her friend Jo (and visiting JB HiFi) with a box for me – well, she said it was for me and she put it on the table, and I jumped in – but then, not half an hour later, she was moving me out of it, putting the new air fryer back in it – and then she took it out of the house.  She took my box out of the house!  She really did that!! And I’d been having such a nice time in it too. 

It was okay though because she came with another one a little while later.  As it turns out – and I know this from when M Kaz was telling M Sooz, the first air fryer came with a plug so it can be used in the UK not here in Australia.  Hmmm.  That won’t work here.  but she didn’t realise that until she had it out of the box.  Anyway, now that it’s back, I love my new box – actually, boxes because there are three of them.

M Sooz is not yet completely back to her happy, smiling, able-to-walk-in-a-straight line happy self.  She’s much better than she was last week though so when Dr Sam said the side effects (if she had any) would be ‘transiet’ (aka they would go away).  Her hair is growing back though and M Kaz likes patting it as much as she loves patting me!  Those Mummies are strange sometimes.

M Sooz has had a bit of a setback following her hospital visit.  She is having a problem with her left eye drooping – she can’t see out of it properly and she can’t keep it open.  M Kaz keeps taking photographs of it in case it gets worse so they can show Dr Sam what happened and how quickly.  M Sooz isn’t too worried about it though because Dr Sam said there could be some side effects like this – it was just good he warned them about it or they might have gone into a bit of a panic (we know that’s what M Kaz does sometimes because she doesn’t read up on things as much as M Sooz does).

It has been raining a bit lately (again) but that’s okay because it’s dry Outback and I enjoy being way up high on my tower (not too high though).

M Kaz has been spending a bit more time in her office and sometimes she lets me in there (when she’s not actually doing any work) and she lets me sleep in the drawer of her desk, right next to her.  Of course, I do have to try to dig my way deeper into the desk but she doesn’t seem to mind that.  Most of the time anyway.

HAL has been quiet the last week or so although M Kaz was setting up his cleaning schedule so he will go around the house this afternoon.  He doesn’t do a bad job although sometimes I do see M Kaz sweeping things into HAL’s path so she’s sure it will be picked up.  I think it’s a bit like when they tidy up before Aunty A gets here to do cleaning.  Funny thing is I don’t see M Kaz out there in the yard before Chris comes.  Hmmmmm.