Showing posts with label cat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cat. Show all posts

Monday, December 01, 2008

The unfortunate incident of the cat in the night time



So the crescent moon, Jupiter and Venus are making a smiley face in the night sky. I just wish my camera could take better photos. I tried my best though.

While I was trying my best, his Royal Highness, King George, ruler of this house was getting stroppy. I'm the worst cat mum on the planet if you believe him. Especially at night. First I have the nerve to feed him his fresh cat mince. Then I shut him in to stop him doing battle with the possum population. I'm not at my best when I deal with corpses first thing in the morning. But I digress.

He's been doing his best to get out at night. Suicide by defenestration will be his cause of death. He's been throwing himself against the doors - and it's a miracle none of the glass on our doors and windows has been broken.

So tonight he tried to get his revenge. He managed to shut my front door, even though it was snibbed. Locked out in the dark, with only my camera and the phone to keep me company. Thank goodness I had the phone because I was talking to Mum.

So I ring the doorbell. My brother sleeps in the room next to the front door. The doorbell is right outside his door. I ring the doorbell again. And again. And again. I try the staccato pushing on the bell. It sounds like it has an unfortunate stutter. Or the hiccups. I yell through his open window "please get up and let me in - George just locked me out". Mum has hysterics on the phone. Nothing. Except the dulcet tones of his snoring.

Right about now, shoes would have been a good thing to be wearing. Mum is still hysterical on the phone. Oooh, the mosquitoes are out too. What a fun night.

Thank goodness. Mum still has a key to our house. 15 minutes later she appears, complete with a note and pinwheel scones for my brother.

I think I need ice cream now.

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Lunacy


It is a full moon again tonight. After I got home from work I stood in the street at the end of my driveway, balancing my handbag, crutches, the mail and camera, and took this photo of the rising moon.
I am unsettled at the moment. It feels like my world has tilted, and although it keeps spinning I am liable to go flying off it at any moment.
Right now the cat isn't helping. George is prowling around the lounge room, climbing in and out of boxes, crawling around in the shopping bag, sitting on top of the television, curling up next to me on the couch and purring for 2 minutes, getting up and attacking my crutches, and then sitting on the modem because he likes the heat. Now he is poking through the papers ready for recycling. I have no idea what he is looking for, but I wish he would just settle down.