Nigella …

Day 458 and the rain continues.  No, that’s not entirely true.  It’s only been raining for a couple of days but it seems like much longer.  The good news is that the pit/drain that M Kaz had fixed by Jarrod the plumber is working a treat so there is now no swimming pool on the front path.  But there were electricians yesterday – not inside my yard but they were just on the other side of the fence working in the switchbox.  M Kaz thinks the neighbours are having a house battery installed;  she will ask them the next time she sees them.  It’s a pity they can’t harness puppy power – I hear Max (aka Gomez) running around and barking sometimes.  He seems to be living his best life over there which is great for all of them. 

As well as being wet here at Jannie, it is getting colder and as soon as M Kaz goes off to the Broadwater in the morning, I jump straight into her warm spot.  Sometimes I get up as soon as she gets back to smell the coffee tray – that’s if she brings two coffees back – one for M Sooz and one for me – actually, that would be a second one for her.  It doesn’t happen often though so I make the most of it when I can.

M Kaz has bought me another box!  I think she was more interested in the air fryer that came in it – but as long as I scored the box, I’m happy.  Why did the Mummies need another air fryer?  I think it’s all about the eggs. M Kaz found a recipe for ‘soft boiled eggs in the air fryer’ and she tried it in their Ninja XXL Smart Grill but that wouldn’t do a low enough heat.  There may also have been something about the eggs – the new Philips 2000 4.2L has a window in the front – and a light! – so they can watch food as it cooks.  I know … I know … some people are happy with watching a television but we know my Mummies are a bit odd sometimes.  But it wasn’t just the eggs (again) … this one has 13 presets (and yes, M Kaz did count them all) and is quite light so they can take it on their road trips whyen they start doing them again!

Happy Mother’s Day to M Sooz and M Kaz – and to all the other Mothers out there.  It is their special day today where people buy them flowers and presents and take them out for a lovely meal and just pander to them.  That isn’t going to happen here and M Kaz and M Sooz knew that which is why they went to buffet breakfast at the Marriott with Aunty M and her mother and the Markets group.  They had a good time.  I could smell it on their breaths when they arrived home.  I was still in bed at the time – I hadn’t moved since they left except to go out to the kitchen to have a snack – or two, or maybe three.  M Kaz cuddled up to me and started snoring (Nana nap!!!!!!) … which meant it was time for me to get up – and I did. 

What is this? Two times in a week? And why is M Kaz trying so hard to get her foot out of her mouth – no, wait … it’s actually both her feet out of her mouth! Who would have thought M Kaz had lost the capacity to count to five – which is how many are actually going to breakfast on Saturday morning (all going to plan) … NOT four M Kaz. She won’t make that mistake again! Better not anyway.

Finally I have a new friend at Jannie. No, I’m not counting the toad that M Kaz chanced upon on the front path the night before last. This one is small and brown and let me chase them up the hallway and into the Mummies’ bedroom while M Sooz and M Kaz watched Hard Quiz last night. Is ‘scurry’ a word? And does it apply to cockroaches? I think that’s what they were. They are living somewhere in the Mummies’ room now – and no, M Kaz, there’s no reason to go looking for the bug spray. They won’t eat much. I’m not sure if they will get up to anything else though. Fingers crossed!

Well, it’s been a while. Not quite sure what M Kaz has been up to that she hasn’t had time to help me with my blog but hopefully she will be more available and diligent from here on in. (It’s hard but I’m trying not to make reference to flying pigs!)

M Sooz and M Kaz leave the house every weekday now to go off to some medical appointment or other – they sometimes have two on the one day. How lucky are they? Well, there is good and bad to it – good that M Sooz is receiving treatment for the nasty and that treatment is available, and bad because we know what ‘stay at home’ people those Mummies can be.

And speaking of home – last week marked the seventh anniversary of me coming to live with the Mummies at Jannie! It doesn’t seem like that long since they put me in the laundry basket on the back seat of the car and drove for two hours from Toowoomba to Jannie, all the while trying to think of my new name. Who knew – new house, new name. I wonder what those Mummies were called before they came to live at Jannie. I used to be called DeNile – like that river in Egypt. It will come as no surprise that my litter-mate was called Cleopatra. Do I miss being called DeNile? Sometimes, but I also miss being called ‘Nigella’ sometimes. They take such liberties with my name- Nigellikins, Nigey, Short & Furry, ‘No Nigey No’ and some other choice phrases which I try not to remember, not because they hurt my feelings – I’m tougher than that – but because there are sometimes rude words and reference to certain of my physical attributes involved. I can only imagine what they’re like when they’re in the car and they’re not getting their own way.
Aunty Wendy came to stay overnight on the weekend and Aunty T and her children came to visit too. I stayed outside on my cat tower most of the time the others were here.

Now that they have gone back to Toowoomba, it means I can have my bedroom back. Since when is it okay to turf me out of my room? And not even let me in there with whoever? I know I can’t share with Uncle Wayne because of his ‘allergies’, but Aunty Wendy has no excuse- no … no … snoring is not a good enough reason to keep the door to my bedroom closed!

It has been raining at Jannie a fair bit lately and M Kaz has been very pleased about that and that the pit Jarrod installed to keep the swimming pool from filling up on the front path is working! And she and M Sooz are still happy with the ‘future proof’ taps in the main bathroom too. M Kaz says it has taken a load of worry off her mind because she no longer has to check if the taps are turned off properly and not leaking. I can’t tell you how relieved I am about that too – no-one needs a fussing (and cussing) M Kaz.