yes, you've guessed it - Guy Fawkes night finally caught up with us (or we with it) and we had our fireworks and curry night last night. Poor Murphy - doesn't mind bangs normally but the back garden is a bit too near. He was hyper, jumping up, running back and forth and barking. We shut him in the living room to be as far away as possible and eventually I went in to look for him and there he was, ensconsed on the (newly hoovered!) sofa! He got very cheeky and when Nick told him to get off just shuffled along a bit. Told again and he got off and went on the other one. Told again and he moved back to the original one! It took Elle to get him off and stayed off.
Meanwhile Gizzy had shot off upstairs and went to ground under our bed (very sensible). When I went to look for her later she had moved to under Richard's chair next to the radiator so was perfectly happy and cozy - I brought her down to say hello and she promptly went and curled up on the two least cat-loving people in the room. They say cats can tell, you know, and you have to wonder...
15 November 2009
07 November 2009
omg
geeze, it's been a while! I'm attracting all sorts of technical problems - for a start facebook doesn't seem to accept me anymore - I've changed my password 4 times now and every time I go in with the new one it refuses and i have to change it AGAIN! I'm thinking of giving it up - nothing's worth this much hassle.
Anyway, double trouble are fine. Gizzy's taken to sitting on my laptop or papers at the most inconvenient times - either to say she wants fed or just to say hello. Nice, but irritating! She's in mouse-kill mode - 3 last week. About time too - the garage cupboard is infested and I even saw one running away the last time I was in.
Murphy has chewed the wing off his new toy duck and it's no longer its pristine cream self - looking a bit chewed and mucky now - still he seems to like it so it's all good. I'll find a decent recent photo... oh yes, as you can see he's taking this sofa promotion thing seriously - here are my boys!
20 October 2009
tune in
blimey, where has the time gone? October is flying by and I'm only just settling into student life. Which, this time round, involves a lot of writing, reading, computer work, cycling, cooking and supermarket shopping (oh, and dog walking and getting wet)
The partners in crime (Gizzy and Murphy) are doing OK. Murphy was sick on Saturday - luckily outside in the garden, how good is that? I'd shut him in on Friday night (as he'd taken to going outside and barking 3 times a night) and he duly barked in the wee small hours - but inside this time so Richard got up and he wanted out. Clearly that was why. Must've been the rubbish he was being fed when I wasn't looking.
Gizzy is also fine although we think there's a nother cat prowling round - she's been shooting in the carflap and haring away upstairs or somewhere, with Murphy instantly shooting out and bounding round barking at all the corners of the garden. She's dashing madly round the house as I write, with her tail all bushy and Murphy went out to have a look but didn't bark so not sure what's going on now. So what's new?
I've now got a blog on my student profile online at RGU and alos we're doing e-Profiles (including CV's and PDP's) so got a blog there too - I'm rapidly going off the idea. Even motormouth me can't keep that lot up! Besides, I have too much work to do.
Gotta go - it's 9.45pm and I've just sat down to study (having been making and eating dinner and been to supermarket).. toodle oo!
The partners in crime (Gizzy and Murphy) are doing OK. Murphy was sick on Saturday - luckily outside in the garden, how good is that? I'd shut him in on Friday night (as he'd taken to going outside and barking 3 times a night) and he duly barked in the wee small hours - but inside this time so Richard got up and he wanted out. Clearly that was why. Must've been the rubbish he was being fed when I wasn't looking.
Gizzy is also fine although we think there's a nother cat prowling round - she's been shooting in the carflap and haring away upstairs or somewhere, with Murphy instantly shooting out and bounding round barking at all the corners of the garden. She's dashing madly round the house as I write, with her tail all bushy and Murphy went out to have a look but didn't bark so not sure what's going on now. So what's new?
I've now got a blog on my student profile online at RGU and alos we're doing e-Profiles (including CV's and PDP's) so got a blog there too - I'm rapidly going off the idea. Even motormouth me can't keep that lot up! Besides, I have too much work to do.
Gotta go - it's 9.45pm and I've just sat down to study (having been making and eating dinner and been to supermarket).. toodle oo!
07 October 2009
busy
very busy now the days are flying in! and the weeks.. Murphy showed his cool in an emergency on Sunday, I was hurrying to hang the washing out before we took him down to the beach for a walk (it was a glorious sunny, blustery day) and missed the step down to the grass. So the pegs went flying (I really must get a proper pegbag, anyone for Christmas?) and a went head over heels with a squeal.
Even Richard came to find out if I was OK, but had to find a way to remove the dog first - he'd been on the grass and immediately rushed over and stood over me as I lay there - I mean right over, front paws on one side of me and back paws on the other.
I'm not sure what in the doggy world it's meant to achieve, but he's very good at it! At least he didn't actually sit ON me, which he is prone to do when I sit or lie on the ground (for my exercises, I should add).
Even Richard came to find out if I was OK, but had to find a way to remove the dog first - he'd been on the grass and immediately rushed over and stood over me as I lay there - I mean right over, front paws on one side of me and back paws on the other.
I'm not sure what in the doggy world it's meant to achieve, but he's very good at it! At least he didn't actually sit ON me, which he is prone to do when I sit or lie on the ground (for my exercises, I should add).
01 October 2009
gizzy again
I had a panic the other day, thought I'd lost Gizzy. By 10.30 she still hadn't come for her breakfast - for a cat who is usually breaking the door down at 6.30am and refuses to leave me alone in the bathroom for my shower (presumably acting under the suspicion that I'll escape - naked - from the window before feeding her, this was unheard of!
By about 11 I'd been out in the garden calling her, searched the whole house - nothing. Sudenly I noticed the garage door was closed -hmm, I wonder?
Opened it and a silent blur shot past - straight to the food bowl (well, why waste time and energy miaowing that would be better used in getting to the food?). Mystery solved....
By about 11 I'd been out in the garden calling her, searched the whole house - nothing. Sudenly I noticed the garage door was closed -hmm, I wonder?
Opened it and a silent blur shot past - straight to the food bowl (well, why waste time and energy miaowing that would be better used in getting to the food?). Mystery solved....
27 September 2009
hectic
I'm back again after a hectic time - survived Sardinia but have a rotten cough thanks to Richard insisting the A/C went on every night. Started university - well had the inductions etc - had to leave the talk on the library as couldn't stop coughing - oops!
Gizzy has forgone Emily's bed again and we discovered on Friday night her latest penchant - shut the door to keep her out but in the early hours of the morning she appeared and insisted on sleeping with me. No idea where she came from - was she hiding in the wardrobe?
Found the truth last night -lying in bed I heard a strange wee sound which I thought was the cat snoring (she's done it before). Sure enough we put on the light and there she was, curled up under the bed against the wall next to Richard's bedside table, fast asleep! Waiting for her chance to wake me up in the middle of the night (which she duly did). Sigh - note to self - be more hardhearted and kick her out the room!
Gizzy has forgone Emily's bed again and we discovered on Friday night her latest penchant - shut the door to keep her out but in the early hours of the morning she appeared and insisted on sleeping with me. No idea where she came from - was she hiding in the wardrobe?
Found the truth last night -lying in bed I heard a strange wee sound which I thought was the cat snoring (she's done it before). Sure enough we put on the light and there she was, curled up under the bed against the wall next to Richard's bedside table, fast asleep! Waiting for her chance to wake me up in the middle of the night (which she duly did). Sigh - note to self - be more hardhearted and kick her out the room!
10 September 2009
holidays
well what can I say? murphy has been pretty good lately - I told you about the snaffling of the leftover chocolates, didn't I? and the chasing of the cat when she followed us up to the track? And the assistance with the painting (resulting in minor paint splashes on his tail and ear)... well now we've ledt the two of them to the tender mercies of Nick and Andy (better than a diet!) while we swan off to sunny Sardinia. Well, I say sunny.... I'm sitting here in the coffee area (so we can get wifi) looking out at the beautiful blue swimming pool and the hills beyond (down which we could hear the tinkling of goat/sheep bells yesterday as they made their way down the said mountain) ..and the pouring rain.
Briefly our holiday so far - day 1 (the journey) R bought a new satnav in Duty Free as stepson no. 2 borrowed ours months ago and despite numerous requests we only got it back the day before we left (one of his friends had it) and they didn't give us the all-inportant cradle. Day 2 am - upon getting back in the car for some orientation we discover the new satnav is broken - when I took it off the windscreen the previous night it flew off and must have hit the bar under the seat. Cue major loss of sense of humour from husband for most of the day.
Day 3 (day 2 here) we head off pronto to the beach after brakfast - as it was beautiful when we found it but we didn't have our swimmies so decided to come back today and try again. Just as we arrived - literally - I saw a jag of lightning above us and there was the loudest crack of thunder I have ever heard - not only directly above us but truly the loudest I have ever heard (and there were some awesome ones in Lebanon). Cue an immediate exodus of the 40-odd folk in the sea! So we sat under towels and beach umbrellas for 2 or 3 hours til lunchtime (I finished my second book of the trip) and then headed back to the hotel to change (it was monsoon-like by this time, I sat in the car for 10 minutes to let it subside before braving the run from the carpark to our room)
And now we've had a lovely lunch (not exactly boosted by the waiter's assertion that today is the end of the Sardinian summer but it's lovely and sunny in London!) and it's 3 hours til dinner. I guess I'll have to start book no 3 now, Richard's gone back to the room for a snooze.
Happy holidays!!
Briefly our holiday so far - day 1 (the journey) R bought a new satnav in Duty Free as stepson no. 2 borrowed ours months ago and despite numerous requests we only got it back the day before we left (one of his friends had it) and they didn't give us the all-inportant cradle. Day 2 am - upon getting back in the car for some orientation we discover the new satnav is broken - when I took it off the windscreen the previous night it flew off and must have hit the bar under the seat. Cue major loss of sense of humour from husband for most of the day.
Day 3 (day 2 here) we head off pronto to the beach after brakfast - as it was beautiful when we found it but we didn't have our swimmies so decided to come back today and try again. Just as we arrived - literally - I saw a jag of lightning above us and there was the loudest crack of thunder I have ever heard - not only directly above us but truly the loudest I have ever heard (and there were some awesome ones in Lebanon). Cue an immediate exodus of the 40-odd folk in the sea! So we sat under towels and beach umbrellas for 2 or 3 hours til lunchtime (I finished my second book of the trip) and then headed back to the hotel to change (it was monsoon-like by this time, I sat in the car for 10 minutes to let it subside before braving the run from the carpark to our room)
And now we've had a lovely lunch (not exactly boosted by the waiter's assertion that today is the end of the Sardinian summer but it's lovely and sunny in London!) and it's 3 hours til dinner. I guess I'll have to start book no 3 now, Richard's gone back to the room for a snooze.
Happy holidays!!
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