Nigella …

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.

I’m not sure why I’ve been running around “like a mad thing” in the evenings but it seems like I’m not alone. The Mummies were talking about it with Aunty M today while they were out at lunch and it seems Mimi has been doing the same. She doesn’t know either. Could it be the wind? Or that it’s a bit colder? Because it is.

I had M Kaz make a little nest for me under the covers last night so I could go to bed. M Kaz kept her legs outside the covers until she was sure I had “settled” and wasn’t likely to kiss and cuddle her legs – the way I did to M Sooz in the early hours of yesterday morning. When she screamed, M Kaz thought she had a cramp – but it was me. I’m sure M Sooz hadn’t meant to move … but she did. Skin was not broken, so I definitely deserve credit for that!

M Kaz has been busy decluttering today and she even managed to completely clear out the two baskets in the little white cupboard near the table. I wasn’t there when she did it – it was too cold not to be Outback today – but I only found out about it this evening when she pulled one of them out so I could jump in there. I’m not sure if she thought I’d like it in there or if she was trying to ” contain” me – because I was in “that mood” again.

I knew something was afoot when M Kaz was awake in the early hours of the morning again. This time it was 3 am and she was debating whether she would watch the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony live or wait and watch the replay later in the day. She was awake again an hour later, but I may have had something to do with that. I was hungry and we all know that I can’t feed myself. Well, actually that isn’t entirely true. There were cat crunchies in my bowl but I didn’t want to eat alone, so I asked M Kaz to come out and be with me. She did – for just a moment, before she went back to bed.

I ended up back there too and at some point M Sooz covered me up with my blanket (yes,the dinosaur blanket!). I didn’t before but I like sleeping under the covers now. I think it’s because it has been colder . And yes, I have been putting myself under the covers too. I don’t think M Kaz trusts me when I do that. I think she thinks that I am going to ambush her with kisses and cuddles to her legs. Would I do that?

hile the Mummies were watching the replay of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, I was Outback. I do love it out there and am thankful that Uncle Wayne built it for me – and that the Mummies know it is safe for me to be out (without them).