Nigella …

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. 

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.

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. 

I don’t think M Kaz realises that it’s a game – this whole thing of keeping me away from the television set. And it is a great game – seeing how many times I can make her get up from the couch to shoo me away from the set. Nigey 375: M Kaz 0. Well that may not be the exact score but it’s pretty close. I notice that she’s not even bothering with the spray bottle now but she has started threatening me with Uncle Wayne and what he’ll do if he finds me up near the TV. We’ll see.

It was lovely and sunny Outback today which could be why M Kaz came out with me and watched a Tubi movie “Continental Split”. She seemed to enjoy it. She didn’t go to the real movies – there is a movie she wants to see but she’s too scared to go by herself. M Sooz has offered to go with her but M Kaz has said no, suggesting it could be akin to “a steaming pile of donkey-doo” – which was how M Sooz described another movie she had volunteered to go and see with M Kaz years ago now. Maybe this one won’t be as gruesome but M Kaz she’s not prepared to take the risk on M Sooz’s behalf. An has offered to go with M Kaz when she comes back from holidays in a week or so.  It will be interesting to see if M Kaz can hold out until then. 

Let’s see if they go through with it – the “it” would be locking me out of the bedroom at night so I don’t try to wake M Kaz so she will come play or feed me in the wee small hours of the morning or so I don’t sleep on top of M Sooz and, in her words, “wreck my hip”.  There’s just no pleasing those two sometimes.  I don’t really think it will happen though – and if it does you can be sure that I will be the one scratching on the bedroom door until they let me in.  And if that doesn’t work, I’ll just have to find other ways of getting them to open the door – if they go through with it.

M Kaz really is a weakling.  I’ve just watch her trying to lift the door that Uncle Wayne replaced on the garage – and she could hardly do it.  She ended up lifting one end and dragging it along the grass.  Yes, I watched her try to drag it on its side first off but it kept getting snagged on the grass when she did.  At least she thought of a way of getting it done.  I don’t know how she thinks she’s going to be able to manage lifting and moving things while she and M Sooz are overseas later in the year.  (Yes, you Mothers, I do know about that!)  I know she is practicing with my 10kg bags of cat litter – and the box with two bags of litter in it – but I’m not sure that’s going to be enough.  Ah well, both the Mummies are a bit older so there might be folk who offer to help them – and not just so they can scam them out of money although there will probably be people trying to do that too!

It rained really heavily this evening and there was thunder and lightning too.  Luckily there was no hail otherwise M Kaz would have been going out to check on Ravi – and I do mean just checking because before they had the shade sail installed she would have been out there throwing herself over the car to protect it – but there’s no need for that now, and certainly not this evening. 

I had a friend come in to play with me today – a dinosaur which M Sooz found under the scales when she came in to see what I was staring intently at in the corner of her bathroom. I wonder if she thought it was a Cecil – I think she did because I think that’s what she was saying to Aunty M when she cane around this afternoon.  There was some suggestion that they wouldn’t but they did end up watching another couple of episodes of “Derry Girls”.  After Aunty M went home of course the Mummies watched more Inspector Barnaby.