Aunty M came this morning to pick up M Sooz so they could go to breakfast together. I didn’t get up. I had already been up two or three times in the early hours of the morning – waking M Kaz up so she could watch me as I had snacks in the kitchen. I didn’t wake her up every time – she knows that now since she found one of my rubber band friends in my cookie dish when she was getting ready to go down to the Broadwater to take photographs at 5.30 am. It’s a pity she doesn’t like to go earlier because that would work out well for both of us.
Yes, M Kaz, you do have to watch me eat. That’s what good Mummies do, It’s no fun eating alone and you know I like having company in the kitchen. And, yes, it would be good if you could open the door so I can go Outback as soon as I’ve had my brekkie. And it would be nice if you could get around to emptying my old litter tray too. Chop chop … let’s get too it. And yes, M Kaz, you are my servant! I thought you knew that already but obviously you’ve forgetten it this morning. I bet Mimi doesn’t have to keep reminding Aunty M to do things for her!
It is still cold at Jannie. I know this because M Kaz was wearing a puffer jacket last night while they were watching Inspector Barnaby – and M Sooz even had a flannie shirt on. I cannot believe they are still watching Midsomer Murders – but M Kaz says it’s because they are still doing research for when they go to Barnabyland. I wonder if they worry that they will end up like the over 500 people who have been killed on that if they visit Midsomer, but M Kaz says they are perfectly safe because in Midsomer you only get “done in” by people you know – quite frequently the last thing a person who is about to be murdered says is: what are you doing here? – and it’s obviously someone they know. M Kaz says they won’t know anybody in Midsomer-land, M Kaz so they will be perfectly safe. I hope she’s right.
As well as being cool, it’s also been grey and overcast and there hasn’t been that much sun so I have been staying mostly inside and curled up on a bed whenever I can. And yes, the battle of wills over whether I will sit at the television and be friends with it continues. I’m still winning (I think).
Cold? Cold? Yes, it is cold. It’s so cold that I am a little bit miffed that those Mothers haven’t gotten me a warm puffer jacket like they have. They’re always saying how warm and toasty they are – and they certainly look as though they are – and whenever they;re off them long enough for me to be in one of them, it feels nice and warm – and puffy. I don’t know why I can’t have one. Yes, yes, I know I can go Outback and warm up out there but there have been days when it’s just been overcast and there hasn’t been any sun to speak of. Ask M Kaz, she’ll confirm that. She’s been feeling the cold too – which is why she’s been wearing a hoodie in the house in the evenings.
Waiting for M Kaz to come and try out the new manchester too
Aunty M was over the other evening and they were watching ‘Derry Girls’ and laughing and laughing. When she was leaving, she said she saw a huge toad out in the front yard. M Kaz wouldn’t let me go out and look at it – just in case I wanted to bring it in. M Kaz wouldn’t let me play with the spider she found in the house the other day either. She didn’t play with it either – she just let it run under my patio, and watched it, and hoped I wouldn’t find it. That just made me want to look harder. But I never did find it.
How comfortable does my bed look – I may end up back in there if the new sheets aren’t warm enough
I’m looking forward to sleeping in M Kaz’s bed tonight. She has finally put her new flannelette sheets on her bed so I’m hoping they will be warm and toasty! Failing that – I think I’m going to have to work out how to turn on the reverse cycle air conditioner. I know I’ve always wanted to be a cool cat =- but I’m sick of being a cold cat!
Ever since she’s watched that movie with the alien invasion, M Kaz has been calling me Frodo. I think it’s a compliment. Frodo is a service cat for a woman who is supposedly one of the key characters – but M Kaz swears the key character is actually Frodo! It’s Frodo who is able to sense when the aliens are near and is able to let everyone know they should be quiet as the aliens are attracted to noise. It’s unclear whether the aliens attack and eat folk who make noise (let’s call them prey) or just want them to stop making noise. When the movie is out longer, hopefully more details of what the aliens do and want will come to light. In the interim, those Mothers are going to keep singing Frodo’s praises – I just know it. I bet they don’t even realise that TWO cats played the part of Frodo.
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