Nigella …

There are still Birthday decorations all over the place and when I tried to take down the banner today, M Sooz suggested she would like to keep it there for the rest of the year. I’m not sure that’s going to happen because they can’t watch me all the time and they can’t lock it in the study with the balloons. The balloons are still on the ceiling. I was thinking about them this morning – and what I might write about them in the future.
Day 10,613: The balloons are almost deflated now and it’s a shame that the Mummies aren’t here to see it – but it’s lovely they made a provision in their wills so the balloons and I would be provided for. I miss them.

M Kaz is spending lots of time watching the Jurassic Park movies getting ready for the latest film in the series Jurassic World Dominion. To be honest, though, I am amazed that she wasn’t first in line to see it when it was released at the movies today. I think she’s booked to go in the next couple of days though – she won’t be able to tolerate not seeing it for much more than that.

It has been cold here the last few days – and nights! I have been sleeping in my cuddly bed, on the Mummies’ bed, in the Mummies’ bed and on M Kaz. I don’t know why the Mummies are amazed that I can put myself under the covers – if they can do it, it’s obviously not that hard!

Happy Birthday to you … Happy Birthday to you … Happy Birthday dear Mummy Sooz, Happy Birthday to you! Hip hip hooray!

I cannot believe that M Sooz is having her birthday still.  Surely she needs to leave some for someone else.  I also cannot believe how old she is … which I won’t be saying here because that wouldn’t be nice!  Although anyone who knows me knows that I am not always (nice)!

M Kaz has put the balloons out (yes, they are still up to the ceiling – Day 6) and the runner which says (Happy X0th Birthday – with the X being a number between something and something – it’s still a secret) and the actual number cut out of white polystyrene and veneered with glitter – that stuff is going to be around the house for a while – in pink and silver.  At least M Kaz hasn’t put the metal confetti out because they’d never get rid of that!  M Kaz wasn’t allowed to scatter it over the table at the French restaurant – they said someone did a few years ago and they’re still finding it!  Truly it seems to be the gift that keeps on giving.  We’re not sure where M Kaz is going to scatter it – although, knowing her, she will find somewhere.

True to her word, now that it has stopped raining, M Kaz and I went out into the yard this afternoon when they arrived back from morning tea.  Yes, that’s right, they left at 10 o’clock to go to morning tea and weren’t back until nearly 2pm.  They brought back what was left of M Sooz’s birthday cake – and if I could spell French I would be able to tell people what it was – it’s made of shoe (? spelling) pastry and looks a bit like a traffic cone with bumps. 

Don’t you Mothers ever go to bed? It’s after 2am and they’re both still up having a good ol’ natter; and I don’t know about them (well, I do actually) but I need my beauty sleep! I know M Kaz hasn’t been sleeping very well since the CoVid and I am used to her getting up every couple of hours, but I’m not used to the Mummies talking and then M Kaz getting up and staying up for 4 hours!  Yes … 4 hours!  She was awake from 1:11 to just after 5am.  It was okay, she wasn’t wasting time, she was doing stuff – in fact, that’s why she got out of bed … as she said to M Sooz at 2:30a, she’d been laying there awake for the last hour so she might as well get up and do something.  Her “do something” was mucking around with her technology “stuff” – but at least she was happy.  It was funny though, because when she finally did go back to bed, she had to be really really careful not to wake M Sooz up – although it seemed that M Sooz might actually wake herself up at any moment – with her sniffing (cat allergies?) and snoring.  Yes, I know that’s supposed to be a secret, but it really isn’t much of one M Sooz!

It’s very exciting around here at the moment because M Kaz has been busy doing the SBB – Secret Birthday Business.  They had an early Birthday dinner for M Sooz last night – at a French restaurant – and the Mummies enjoyed that … but the most exciting thing was that they came back with balloons which sit on the ceiling!  How cool is that?  I’m working on a plan to get to them too.  Or maybe I could just wait for them to come down.  In the interweb research that I’ve been doing, it looks like they can only stay up for … wait, what’s this … way too long.  They can last well for 7 to 10 days and remain afloat for weeks.  Hmmm  … this will be interesting!  I’m going to start tracking this and see just how long they do stay up!  Bets anyone? 

Evicted? Evicted? Yes, it’s worth saying twice you Mothers because it was not fair! I only woke M Kaz up so she could play with me and spend time with me … which you would think she would want to after all the time I spent with her while she was off-colour! Okay, so it was 5 o’clock in the morning … but if she had gotten up to be with me she would have seen this morning’s amazing sunrise too!  Which is saying a lot since I am supposedly only able to see blues and grays and maybe some yellows.  

It is getting colder!  Thank goodness they did the washing this morning because when it came back from the laundromat (why don’t they just get a dryer for here?) it was all toasty and warm – and lovely to be on!  How lucky am I (except for the being locked out of the bedroom this morning thing!)?

They came! They came! Finally the men with the yard equipment came. They weren’t here all that long but they did a great job with the mower and the blower and the whipper-snipper and they have transformed the jungle into a lawn again. And that meant one big thing – M Kaz no longer has an excuse for not taking me outside!  And after a bit of pestering she did take me out – and then chased me around the yard when I wound my lead around one of the frangipani and used the tension to shock off my harness.  Apparently that is a punishable offence and my yard privileges were immediately revoked!  I’ll know better for next time – I’ll head straight for the fence so she can’t grab me!