Nigella …

Those Mummies have been buying things for us again – this time it’s a little something for the bedroom – alright, it’s a big something for the bedroom!   It’s for the bed and they are calling it a Topper even though it seems to go on the mattress so it really could be called a Bottom – but maybe it wouldn’t sell as well it was called that.  As I said, it’s really big and the Mummies weren’t sure they were going to be able to get it out of its bag and onto the bed, so they asked Aunty M if she could come over and help.  I was very happy they did and that she said yes, because I hadn’t seen Aunty M all week.  Usually she comes on a Thursday morning to see me but she didn’t this week because M Kaz drove M Sooz to where they were all having breakfast. 
I miss Aunty M and the stories about my friend MiMi when she doesn’t come around.  MiMi has a new harness – she lost the other one somewhere … they know not where … because MiMi is allowed to wander further afield – and by herself – than I could possibly imagine.  She visits someone called Christine who lives a couple of yards away from them.  And Mimi gets to go down to the pier at the river.  And all I do is get to sit in my green thing in the windows and wait until M Kaz deigns to take me outside – and even then she keeps a tight hold of the retractable lead so if I even look like I’m thinking about making a run for it, she reels me back in. 

So I enjoyed it while Aunty M was here … and I’m sorry she didn’t see my trick when I climbed into the bag from the Topper/Bottom and when I was helping those Mummies make the bed.  It’s one of my special skills … bedmaking!

M Kaz is a tiny bit of a liar. She really is. She keeps telling me she is going to take me outside but she doesn’t. She says she means to … and I want to believe her when she says it, but she has disappointed me so many times … well, once … it was just the once … and when she came home that day it was already dark … and we all know I don’t want to go out in the dark and she certainly doesn’t want to take me out in the dark … I have a fair bit of white fur but I think she thinks she wouldn’t be able to see me out there in the yard in the dark. She’s probably right.

Update: She did take me out in the yard this afternoon; I think it was because she wanted a reason to be out there so she could sit in the sun and I think she really wanted to because she is feeling a tiny bit off colour at the moment – not seriously but enough to make her into a bit of a grouch (a bear with a sore head more like!) – she’s got the sniffles, a sore throat and a few aches and pains … and she does go on and on about them so it’s good we went out!

I don’t want to be critical but while we are talking about outside, it’s time someone grabbed the lawnmower and gave it the once-over … and ventured into the garden to do a (big) spot of weeding. Hmmmm, you know I can’t do everything around here Mummies … a Nigey can only eat so many weeds and grass!

Well I don’t know what’s going on but my caravan has been stolen … not the brown snow stuff, but definitely my caravan. I went out into that part of the living room that is given over to all things Nigey to get in it (well, it is more of a flat pack these days) this morning and it wasn’t there … at all. I’m not sure how anyone could have come in to pinch it without me noticing … but there it was, or rather, wasn’t. And other stuff of mine is missing as well! Boxes, my favourite paper bags that are no longer anything like paper bags, my convertible … oh wait, I’ve just found that on the couch … and let me check that stringey thing is still with us … yes, there he is at the food bowl where I left him in the wee small hours of the morning. So what on earth is happening around here? I wonder if the Mummies are missing anything too. I’ll go and have a look in the bedroom and office in a minute but let me just have a look in the kitchen – M Kaz will be devastated if her new coffee-making machine is gone – especially before she has a chance to work on foam art No, all good, that’s still there, together with the Aldi one … what on earth are they going to do with two coffee machines?!? I can remember a time when we only drank tea at home because everyone liked going out to coffee shops too much to have a coffee machine at home! Next they’ll be experimenting with different blends. Zarraffas has been mentioned.
Now, let me see if anything else is gone … nope, doesn’t look like it … and none of the missing stuff is theirs – it’s all mine. Oh no … my poly inserts from the new coffee machine box are gone … and the box! This is not good Mummies, not good at all … in fact, best I go and wake them up so they know.

I was very happy to hear M Kaz’s voice this morning because it meant she had come to pick me up from Aunty Rosemary’s. It was time too because I had been keeping count by drawing marks on the wall with my claws – and no, they didn’t manage to clip them while they had me incarcerated there because, to quote them, I was too “hissy”.  Hmmm … me? Hissy? Well, maybe a little because I was worried they were going to paint my nails the same colour as Rosemary used to have her hair … green … and that just wouldn’t do.  So, my nails haven’t been done which means I might have to schedule a visit with Aunty M to do them – or M Kaz might decide she has to take me to see the vet so they can take me out the back and attend to it.  I can see why M Kaz wants me to get my nails done though … I don’t mean to but sometimes when I go to give her a little pat, when I’m being affectionate, my nails sometimes gets caught on her skin – even when she’s wearing long pants!  She obviously has a very low pain threshold because she sometimes cries like a baby when it happens!

But it is so good to be home again and M Sooz was as happy to see me as I was to see her because she had set out a new bed for me to sleep on … and I think she’s going to leave it on their bed tonight to make sure we are all warm enough – because the nights continue to be chilly!

M Kaz had been being sucky too – she’s given me a new box from Prime – the one that had the landing pad for the drone in it – yes, that would be the same drone which I haven’t yet been allowed to play with – and M Kaz has said I won’t be allowed to until she’s allowed to fly it in the house … and M Sooz has made it quite clear that that will absolutely not be happening. But at least the new coffee machine has been allowed in and I am enjoying the polystyrene packing inserts from that box very much.  See … I don’t ask for much …