Our main event for Sunday 15th
July was to head for Silverwood’s
to collect the 2 new kittens. These
little mites are only 6 weeks old which seemed a bit young to us but apparently
that is OK for felines. They are called Blue and Rolo and were ‘bred’ by
daughter of Tommo the Builder (though I’m surte that bher only involvement was
to own the bottle-brush tailed cat, Bailey. Mum and Dad managed to wrap the 2
hour each way 'zoom' around a lovely roast pork dinner including Mrs S’s best
ever crackling. It (the zoom) was preceded by the usual unleashing the chickens
of war but we have now developed a handy rounding them up process involving
going to fetch grain from the clangy dustbin in their shed (they hear and come
zooming over to see if there's food on offer).
The drive itself was made slightly more
scenic and less zoomy by us being diverted off the main road by the Guards
(Police) to avoid 'Match Traffic' - some kind of GAA big match in Roscommon.
So now we have 2 kittens who are doing ‘cute’ in a very thorough and
professional manner but whom I am not allowed to eat. This message is being
driven home very forcibly, as it was for the chickens, this time by a series of
‘training sessions’ in which I am kept on a lead and introduced. I am allowed
enough lead to sniff, watch and chase them some of the way round the furniture,
but never quite enough to poke them with my nose or worse. I think the plan is
that we all end up one big happy family.
Oh and Dad’s Rotovator is sick. Something to do with the ignition, possibly as a result of him forgetting to cover it one rainy night, so that is off to the 'garage' this morning.
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