Nigella …

What’s all this rubbish about me being a ‘Ginger Whinger’? Okay, Mummies, so we know you read my last blog but there was no whinging in it … there may have been some whining but that was legitimate! I’m allowed to complain – otherwise how do we make sure that we all stay on our toes around here – and by ‘our’ I mean ‘your’?

M Kaz was a bit surprised the other evening when she was sitting at the table and I jumped up and cuddled into her arms. I haven’t done that for a while but I don’t remember why – it was nice and warm and very companionable – so much so that I didn’t even think about kissing and cuddling her. She managed to get a photo before I wandered off into my bedroom.

The cat grass continues to grow – and amazingly M Kaz is remembering to water it. (Yep, there she goes to do it again now.) That may be why it is continuing to grow and yes, I’ll say it – thrive. It won’t be long before I can start eating it rather than just looking at it.

I’m not sure I’m ever going to get those Mummies trained. How hard is it to make sure I have fresh water in VARIOUS places around the house ALL the time? Why should I have to walk out to the kitchen to get a drink when there is a perfectly suitable tap and my water bowl in Sooz’s bathroom? Don’t they know the rule is that I have a third of the bowl and then it needs to be thoroughly cleaned and refreshed and refilled before I’ll even look at it again?

And just as well M Kaz has the batch of cat grass on the go again. Do you think she listened last time when I suggested that she grow one lot and then start the next within a week or so – so I didn’t have to wait? Do you know how long it takes grass to grow? And how not fun it is to watch it? I hate to be the one to say it but I think standards have slipped around here a bit! There may need to be some more kissing and cuddling of M Kaz’s legs until she straightens up and flies right. And while we’re on it, you can just get rid of that slanted bowl M Kaz because I just don’t like it regardless of what you put in it. There. I’ve said it now.

On a less-whiney note, I do love the new doona that M Sooz is using. I think they’ve been saying it’s like a pillow-top something-or-other they put on hotel beds – not that I would ever know.  Did I say less-whiney? I obviously didn’t mean it.

There is an interloper! There are actually two but the other one hasn’t made it in from Ravi yet. The capybara is living in my room and sleeping in my bed.  Hopefully this will only be until Aunty Wendy comes down next weekend;  then she can take her home with her.  The steer/cow/bovine is going to live with us and hopefully will behave.  I am not sure if it’s a cow boy or a cow girl.  Do girl cows have horns?   Not that it matters.  Well, not to me anyway.

It continues to be a bit cooler here – so much so that M Kaz has been sitting Outback with me some days – trying to get a bit warmer.  I’m not supposed to tell anyone but she has Nana naps out there with me – I know because her snoring wakes me up. I suppose she must be tired to go to sleep sitting up at the table.  She does that at night too – but inside at the dining room table. Can you call it “dining room” if it’s mostly open plan?

It’s Saturday night here at Jannie and I am doing my best to relax on M Sooz’s recliner.  The Mummies are doing something called ‘parallel play’ where M Sooz is in bed watching something which sounds like opera or classical music.  M Kaz is currently awake (fancy that), sitting at the table, taking notes for my blog and watching something called ‘Stargate SG-1’ while she does it.  And who said she couldn’t do two things at once?  (No-one says she does it well but …)

If they wanted to know how I got into my cat ‘box’, they should have been paying me more attention and watching while I did it.  Yes, I finally let them see me inside the box they thought I’d never be able to get into.  Okay, my tail doesn’t exactly fit in there with the rest of me but that’s nothing to do with me – M Kaz really should have gotten me a bigger one.  That’s one of the problems with her buying things on the internet – she can’t always gauge their exact size – and while I have enjoyed scratching on the pad on the roof, it seemed a shame that all of the inside was unused.  I had to go in there last night because there was really nowhere else for me to sit.  I had been on M Sooz’s recliner but when I went to get a snack, she stole it back.  The other recliner doesn’t have a cover and the leather is too cold for me so there was no other option than to go to I went to M Kaz’s couch.  And why was that?  Because she still hadn’t put all my things back on the floor after Aunty Anja had been.  I was sitting on the roof scratchy pad to start with but decided to go inside – knowing that they would finally know I can actually fit in there.  Yes, I know, busted – but sometimes a Nigey has to do what a Nigey has to do.  

Otherwise things have been just puddling along here at Jannie.  M Sooz is still not feeling totally well after her first big chemotherapy treatment – but she has been a bit better than she was straight after it.  It looks like she will be crook for two weeks after the treatment and then feel a bit better in the third week.  And, of course, there’s another treatment next week so I it will be interesting to see if the same thing happens.  The good news is that we’re all used to her not having any hair at the moment.  Thank goodness we were able to find her a beanie she likes so she can keep her head warm.