Sunday … helping the Mummies
I was a very helpful Nigey today and M Kaz took lots of photographs of me being a helper … not a hindrance … as she did some more shifting of things in the living area. She was also trying to fix the screen door – who knew that using curse words on it would work? Well, no-one, because they didn’t! The brute strength was a bit of a flop too. WD-40 was marginally better than nothing although I think M Kaz is going to wait overnight to see if there’s any change on that &$%#(*& door.
Oh, and did I mention that I saw Lennie … although Kermie is still a no-show. I hope he’s okay because there were some pretty big birds around here today.
April … come what may …
How on earth did it get to be April already? It seems like just a second ago that the Mummies were deciding that they wouldn’t stay up for the midnight fireworks on New Year’s Eve … and here we are past the time for April Fool’s Day jokes!
M Kaz had put some work into her April Fool’s Day ruse this year – enough to say that it was about her convincing everyone that she was working out the algorithm they used to select the random word for each day’s Wordle so that she could get the word out first go!
And get it out first go she did … although there was subterfuge involved … but not as much as there could have been because she was trying to find out the Wordle the night before (surely NZ would get it at midnight their time – but no!) so she could send it to everyone so they could get it out first go as well. Hmmmmm. The best laid plans … of mice (yay, mice!) and people …
The cheek … the impudence … what ever possessed Diny to think he was welcome to sit in my best box? I know I’m supposed to be a kind cat and share my things … but that is my very special box from Aunty M and it is only for Nigey’s use. I told him off good, but it took him a while to find himself somewhere else nice to sit.
Otherwise it has been fairly quiet around here. M Kaz has finally managed to find someone to do the clearing out of the two front gardens so it looks as though I’ll be able to go out there again soon.
It was good when Steve, our neighbour at the front, came over today to prune back the jasmine that they planted on their side of the fence but which had started to cascade down our side. It looks a lot tidier now and I like to think that is, at least a little bit, because I supervised.
Plastics galore!
Okay Mummies do you believe me now that someone (bags not me) has to organise the plastics cupboard? When M Kaz was in there yesterday looking for a couple of containers for the leftover soup they all started to jump out at her. She crammed them back in and obviously didn’t give it another thought until she had to go back in there this evening to get a microwave container … and some escaped.
The equilibrium in the cupboard has obviously been disturbed because you could hear them all straining to get out. Sometimes the Mummies can quickly toss the escaping plastics back in and cIose the door to trap them in there. They don’t usually put up the fight they did tonight and for a moment or two it looked as though they might win … and they would have had M Kaz not jammed the spatula into the door handles to trap them in there. Good luck to whoever has to open that cupboard next… because there’s no way there’s not going to be an avalanche of plastic!
It was raining again this morning so I spent most of it in my bag, in my box, in my plastic tub. But I didn’t sleep the day away – I hopped up for a bit when Aunty M came to visit. There was some talk of them watching a television show but M Sooz was not feeling well and said she didn’t feel like it so, after lunch and a chat, Aunty M went off into the … not rain.
Nigella ... 