Woe is Me!

It is a beautiful day! It is warm and sunny and very, very calm and just brilliant weather for a baby puss cat to be out lying in the sun doing nuffin!

So what do my humans do? Well, it really was my MH. Out comes the dreaded hoover and she did all the rooms 'cos she didn't do them yesterday, then the washing machine went on, and THEN the even dreadeder lawn mower appeared again! What a noise the woman created! Even the cows in the field were complaining! Mind you, it didn't last too long, and then I got down to the serious business of enjoying my dear, adorable little self.

I even found a new place to explore and it is a ginormous shed beside my jungle, so it's not too far away for me to travel. Usually, the shed is closed up, but the nice farmer man from next door came today and opened it up and when he went away, he left it open, so I decided it was OK to go and have a wee nosey, so oft I jolly-well went! And what a shed it is. There is a lot of farm machinery in it of course, but there are also birds up in the rafters and they had a few words with me. I'll leave those to your imagination, but I don't think they were overly pleased to see me there. As well as the birdies, I could hear the mouses all scampering about, but I didn't see any---maybe another time. I was in the big shed for ages and ages and ages and I just loved it, so I hope I can go again tomorrow if the nice man leaves it open.

I told you yesterday that I got a new toy and that's it in today's picture. It is a string-type ball with holes in it and there is something with feathers in it which I have to try and catch. I think it will be good fun,but I have been so busy outside that I haven't had time to play with it yet. Maybe when it's raining.

Happy hunting, pussy cats of the world!

Working

I have been a very busy puss cat today 'cos I have been helping my DH in the garden and in the greenhouse. My MH went away on the early boat to get lots of shopping and she brought me back another super toy which I will show you tomorrow.

Anyway, my DH decided that he needed to tidy up the garden and put his tomato plants in their grow bags in his greenhouse, so we both worked there for a while and every now and then, I would nip out into my jungle to see what was happening there. I have seen lots more birdies and some of them are nesting in the roof of the shed near to where I like playing. Dear oh dear, what a noise they make when I go near them! If this goes on much longer I shall have to borrow my MH's ipod so that I don't have to listen to them!

It was quite hard work wandering back and forth, and jumping in the window too when I needed a wee feed, so when my MH came back I welcomed her as she likes me to do, then I lay down on my swivel chair for a wee snooze and she took today's picture with her new camera.

I think it shows me in a very good light!

A New Toy

-----but it's not for me this time, it is for my MH 'cos she has bought herself a new camera and she has been busy playing with it all day. I am very tired now 'cos I have been posing for hours and hours and hours!

My MH said that it is a very powerful camera and it can almost see inside my little head to see what I am thinking! Now I am not sure if she is telling the truth or not, but every time she points that camera at me, I think lovely thoughts, just in case! It is lovely and warm today and more and more birds are arriving, so I have been spending as much time outside as possible and 'cos my MH has been playing with her camera, she has been coming out as well, so I like that, and it gives her a wee bit of exercise too!

I forgot to tell you yesterday that I had been weighed AGAIN! and I am still the same weight as last week, but a bit more adorable!

Since I haven't been doing anything too exciting, I shall now tell you chapter 5 of my story, so are you sitting comfortably? Here we go.

Chapter 5

"No! No! No!" squawked Sammy Seagull, while Henry Hedgehog was rolling around the ground with tears of laughter running down his face.

"Why not?" asked Squeak, somewhat annoyed at the reaction she had got to what she had thought was a simple question. She had finally plucked up enough courage to ask Sammy to teach her to fly.

"I don't know why you won't teach me. I'm sure I could do it."

"Dear, oh dear" giggled Henry, "you need wings before you can fly, and since you don't have wings, you can't fly. Simple!"

"I could flap my front paws VERY quickly--just like wings" said Squeak "watch this!" And she jumped up onto the ramp then onto the roof of the wee shed and with a shout of Whee! she launched herself into the air, wildly flapping her little leg. But she immediately landed on the ground with a thud sending Henry Hedgehog into another fit of the giggles while Sammy just sat on his roof shaking his head.

"Okay, okay" said Squeak "Maybe I need to practice a wee bit more, but I'm not giving up." She was beginning to realise that she would probably never fly, but she wasn't going to let Henry and Sammy know that---at least not yet.

While they were talking, they heard the noise of lots and lots of sheep and when they went to look, they saw Diggory helping his human to put the sheep into the field in front of Squeak's house. So they all decided they would go and watch Diggory working. They wandered slowly over towards the field where Sammy perched on a fence post. Squeak jumped up and sat on the one next to him while Henry settled down on the grass between them.

"Wow!" said Squeak "that is brilliant" as she watched Diggory racing round the field rounding up the sheep and doing everything his human told him. Henry and Sammy were equally impressed and the three friends watched until Diggory had finished and the sheep were all where the human wanted them to be. "Wow, indeed!" they all said as the the human walked away with Diggory following him.

Before he had gone too far away, Squeak ran after Diggory and called out his name. The dog stopped and said "Good afternoon, my dear Squeak. What brings you here this fine afternoon?" "We have been watching you working" replied Squeak "and we all think you are awesome. Would you like to come and play with us sometime?" "Oh thank you, Squeak" beamed Diggory "I would love to play with you. Would tomorrow be suitable? I am not working then."

"Yes, that would be fine" said Squeak, and as she wandered home she was thinking

"I wonder if I could become a sheep-cat?"

Trouble with a capital T!

I am in trouble---big, big trouble. Let me tell you why.

I had been out playing in my jungle for a long time and my MH was cleaning the outsides of my widows, so I decided to play on her set of steps which was OK until she went up one step and I sat on the bottom one. BUT, she didn't see me on account of her scrubbing birdie-poo off the window. SO, as she put her foot down onto the bottom step, I jumped, she shouted and I ran away!

That was trouble spot number one. Trouble spot number two was an indoor one and goes as follows. Do you remember I told you about the lovely big cover on my couch which keeps my little claws off the leather, and is lovely and warm to lie on? Well, it also makes a great parachute!

When I realised that it was safe for me to go home again after trouble spot number one, I decided that I would play in my living room and keep my MH company for a wee while, and I imagined that I was a parachute jumper and got all wrapped up in this big cover then leaped off the couch and it was brilliant.

The first time I did this, my human smiled and said 'silly Squeak' and put my parachute back in place again. 'How kind' I thought and tried it again. This time, she wasn't smiling just as much and by the fourth time I did it, she was not at all happy and I cannot repeat what she said. But as she was heading for the soup pot, I decided to make my escape out of the living room window, although, this time, without a parachute, and I have decided to stay here until the steam has stopped 'cos I'm not sure if it from her ears or if she IS getting the soup pot ready for Squeak soup.

If this blog suddenly stops, you will have found the answer!

Another New Week

Well, it's Monday again and here we go on another exciting adventure. Every day is an adventure for me just now and I am seeing more and more new things every day. If this continues, I shall be the cleverest puss cat in the en-tire world!

My new bestest friend, the peacock, has been calling to me and once I have recovered from yesterday's long and arduous journey, I may go back to see him 'cos I forgot to ask him what his name was. Mind you, Mrs. Peacock arrived to see what I was up to with her husband, so I decided to beat a hasty retreat!

I have been watching the oyster catchers and they are still building their nest. I saw two lapwings which I had never seen before and there are a couple of swallows flying about my house, so my education is galloping on, and I am becoming quite an authority in birdwatching!

I am still loving being outside and it is getting warmer, but the dreaded lawn mower keeps coming out as soon as I lie down to have a wee nappette. I must look up my mechanic books and see if I can put a silencer on it before next time. I know my humans have to keep the garden tidy for me, but does it have to be SO noisy?

However, since it has stopped now, I am off to find a shady spot to watch birdies and then have a wee kitten-nap.

Happy purring,my friends!

Something New

As I am getting older, and as the days are getting longer and a wee bit warmer, I am outside lots and lots and I am having great fun.

There are lots of animals on my wee island and I have told you about the big bull in the field next to my house. Well, he has some lady cows in with him now, so that should keep him happy, but I am still not getting too close to him---just in case!

I have also seen a wee baby cow and it was beautiful, but it was big. It was much bigger than me and I am getting quite old now. I wonder if I will ever be that size? I guess it will depend on how many dinners I can eat. There are lots of sheep and little lambs are being born every day, and even they are bigger than me. Sigh!

But the strangest thing I have seen is a peacock and he was so beautiful. I think I might be in love! When I was out playing, I kept hearing a strange noise like a very big cat meowing and I decided I would need to go and investigate because as well as being adorable, I am desperate to learn and I am also very inquisitive. So I packed some food and water 'cos I didn't know where I was going or how long it would take me or what I would find when I got there. I even left my humans a wee farewell note in case I didn't get back. (sob!) And oft I went.

Well after hours and hours of travelling through fields and rough grass, I arrived at the source of the strange noise. (It seemed like hours and hours to me, but when I looked at the map when I got home again, it was only about a quarter of a mile away or even less so it must have taken me about fifteen minutes. But remember, I only have little legs!)

Anyway, I had finally arrived and had just sat down to have my picnic when 'the noise' started again, and that's when I saw him! The most beautiful peacock in the en-tire world and he was standing right beside me. Oh my little heart was pounding! Mind you, it could have been because I had jumped very high when I heard the noise so close to me!

We introduced ourselves and I asked him about the very long tail which I could see, and he opened it all out for me and my eyes nearly popped out of my little head! It was amazing and he did it a few more times for me before I decided that I needed to start the long journey home again, because I wanted to be home before winter!

I was so excited on the way home and I kept trying to open up my tail like the peacock, but I couldn't do it no matter how hard I tried.

Do you think it will work if I keep practicing?

Do You Want to Know a Secret?

I have had the bestest of time outside on my grass and if my mummy human (MH) knew what I had been up to, she would have been a tad awful angry 'cos I have been swinging on her washing!

I knew that there were big poles in the middle of the grass, but I thought that they were there for me to climb up--after all, the world DOES revolve around me, does it not?--but today I discovered that when the humans put up a rope between these poles, then my MH can hang up all the clothes she has just taken out of the washing machine. So, because today was dry and not too windy, that's just what she did.

Naturally enough, I needed to go and inspect 'cos this was something completely new to me, so oft I went, and what a fantabulous time I had. The towels were hanging down and then they would blow in the wind, so what is an adorable, lively, inquisitive pussy cat to do? Yep! I jumped up, caught on to the bottom of a big towel and I swinged and swinged and swinged and it was MAGIC! Obviously, there isn't a picture of this, because my MH wasn't there which was maybe just as well 'cos I would have been in trouble. So today's picture is the 'Honestly it wasn't me, but if it was, then I am so, so, sorry' look which I have perfected to--to--to--well, to perfection really!

I have been in trouble a couple of times and my MH has threatened to make 'Squeak soup' and I'm not sure what that would entail, but I don't think I'll hang around to find out, so I'm off outside again to swing on more towels.

Happy purring, everyone!