Nigella …

I love the outside area that Uncle Wayne made for me. I am still getting used to all the smells and the concrete and the window ledges (from the other side) and the screen door and whether I can use the cat door to get out here, but I am calling it an unmitigated success. It’s just a shame that Uncle Wayne isn’t here to share it with … sigh!

I was allowed out there by myself this morning while M Kaz was phaffing around bringing her work stuff out. And this is me dictating my blog and seeing if it’s possible to jump up on to the shade cloth – apparently I can but I’m not very good at it yet. Uncle Wayne had suggested that M Kaz put the Gorilla stand up higher so I can sit on it and look out – which she finally did this afternoon, but I’m not totally sure about it yet … but that doesn’t mean I won’t give it a go.

The Mummies were out for most of the morning … they came back with loads of stuff – clothes mostly, and some rice paper rolls for their lunches – or dinners. It’s going to be a hard decision for them because Aunty M came back from Sydney this week and she had tabouli and hummus for them – which they love!

M Kaz is puddling around – I think she calls it “decluttering” – and seems to be quite happy with how she’s going … which is why she’s taking a break to help me with my blog – and to watch me climb up the shade sail.

We are all very sad today because Uncle Wayne has packed up his truck and left for Toowoomba. M Kaz was leaking from the eyes as he drove away and she didn’t stop for a while after he was gone. I’m just a little bit happy because this means that I can have my bedroom back – and that before he left he finished enclosing my deck out the back so I will have somewhere else to go and play now … once Robbo has been to run the gerni over the area and clean it up a bit. Uncle Wayne has done such a good job though that I think it’s going to be very difficult for me to force my way out of the deck … unless I’m able to sneak out the door to the outside when they have it open.

I can’t wait until they have furniture out there – it’s going to be wonderful to have my afternoon nap out there in the sunshine/shade. And the Mummies are talking about possibly leaving their screen door open so I will be able to walk through there back in to the house as well as using the cat door. I haven’t used the cat door … yet. It’s something I am going to have to work my way up to … I think it hasn’t been used for a while so it’s a bit stiff, and I’m worried that I might be a bit “bitey”. Nobody wants to see a Nigey stuck in there!

I had my first climb of the screen door out there this morning. It’s a bit different from the screen door out the front – they’ve used different material for the screen part of the door – and when I went to climb it, I was stuck right up near the top. Thank you M Kaz for lifting me down … and wasn’t it good that I didn’t put up too much of a struggle!