Nigella …

Those Mummies are watching the Olympics again this evening and this time they’re watching the Decathlon with the men doing the 110M Hurdles. Do they do a girl’s Decathlon? Surely they must. As surely as Nigeys get up to scratch at the television. Nigey: 3,269,387 M Kaz: 0. She’s resorting to the spray bottle again. I’m not sure it’ll work any better this time but we all know M Kaz will keep trying (even if it doesn’t work). But I’m not playing anymore tonight. I’ve had my two dinners and looked up adoringly at M Kaz and now I’m going to bed – yes, on M Kaz’s bed.

That M Kaz is always thinking of me.  She found me a new place to hang out – I think I said that she has been doing some decluttering and one of the areas she has ‘attacked’ is the white cupboard near the kitchen table.  It had a couple of baskets in there and now that those have been cleared out, she has been letting me hang out in them.  She insists on being there with me while I do, I think she’s worried I’m going to dislodge it and it and I will fall to the ground.  I’m sure I would bounce back but we’re not sure about the basket. 

It’s still cold here and when M Kaz arrived back from being down at the Broadwater this morning, she loaned me her coat to keep me warm.  I think I look good in gold!  Hmmmm … nothing has happened yet about the Jannie Olympics so I will have to remind the Mummies about them.

We haven’t had a lot of rain lately, so I’ve been doing my best to  help out with that.  We’re keeping track to see just how long it takes for the rain to come now that I’ve done the ‘behind the ears’ thing – I was going to call it a ‘trick’ but I think it’s more scientific than that.

It’s the Olympics and I am excited because the Mummies have realised that the Rings are here. I thought they were still in Paris but I was wrong. I hope this doesn’t mean I have to compete! I’m athletic and all but there are only so many sports that you can compete in without other competitors! I suppose we could get some in just for the events – but then we’d have to decide which ones. I quite fancy the rock-climbig but without Uncle Wayne here there’s no way we can get a course or wall or whatever you call it, put up. Same with skateboarding. I have high hopes for some archery out on the back field though. Just need a couple of targets, bows, some arrows, a couple of officials, and some marshalls to keep the area clear. There are those huge lights out there so we could compete at night as well as during the day. I’ll speak with the Mummies and see how quickly they can get it all organised.

Those Mummies had lunch Outback with me today. It was nice to have them out there, getting some Vitamin D and doing the Herald Trivia quiz. I don’t think they’re as good at it as they were when they watched teleivision on the television rather than Inspector Barnaby and those Planet of the Apes reboot movies.

What’s the easiest way to freak a Mummy out? Wait until it’s time for them to go to bed and go and sit by the glass door and peer out intently – and keep peering out as though you’re watching something – or someone. I know it works because I did it to M Kaz last night. She walked around the house, checking the doors were locked and that the outside sensor lights hadn’t been triggered. They hadn’t. Not long after she came back to bed (I didn’t go on the house-check with her) and we settled in for the night – although I swear M Kaz didn’t go straight to sleep. I wonder if she was trying to remember if she had the neighbours’ numbers handy in case she ever needed to phone them (like if the sensor lights had been on).

They were both out of the house early this morning – another health appointment for M Sooz. No surprises that they went out to breakfast after down at the Broadwater. Then they came home – and let me Outback so I could bask in the sunshine out there. I do love a good bask.
M Kaz went to the movies this afternoon and then came back and locked herself in the office doing paperwork or some such silliness. I fooled her though because now she’s almost finished decluttering the office, I can get through the other door to her. She was surprised when I jumped up on the desk beside her. I knew she’d thought she’d seen me go past on the floor – out of the corner of her eye – a bit before but she’d obviously decided it was just a glitch in the matrix. She was wrong.