Logan the window wash help

From Kits

wet cats

following on from brad's obsession with the kitchen tap, the water interest continues today as joe washes the windows and both cats 'help' by standing under the drips of water, leap into the bucket, lick the wet glass and generally join in. i thought that cats are meant to be afraid of water?

it's not my job

official winner of the It's Not My Job contest

big brother

BB 07 started last night. we are determined not to watch it this year. well apart from the beginning of it, just to see who is in it.

aparantly its going to be completely different from all the previous ones

moving in the rain and leaping felines

saturday joe and i went to help dan move house. went went on motorbikes up to reservoir to help load stuff onto a trailer that his dad had hired for the day. his lesbian housemates didnt offer any help.

it was far more fun than any of the house moves that we've done, when i'm normally running around doing last minute packing. we even laughed at the fact that following australia's worst drought, it poured with rain all afternoon. dan was nice and dry in the comfort of his dad's air conditioned car, but we were following on bikes picking up the spray from the rear tyres in our crotches. when joe and i got home we had to jump straight into the bath (taking sodden clothes off first of course).

then had an afternoon nap. hint: afternoon nap with damp hair equals mad-hair for rest of day.

brads new trick of the day is jumping onto the kitchen benchtop. he seems to love water (isnt this wrong for cats). if the kitchen tap is running, he leaps up to have a look. even leaped straight into the sink at one point. logan is restricted by his broken leg still.

well, i did it

i took the plunge and got a mobile phone. my decision was possibly speeded up by dan giving me his old phone and joe giving me his spare sim card, so i didnt have any of those oh-so-difficult decisions to make.

so i am officially the last person in australia to own a mobile phone. it is an all-singing, all-dancing model with text, sub-woofers and egg-boiler built in.

what next? a car, an i-pod, children?!

mobile phone

I must be the only person in Australia without a mobile phone. Since we arrived here 5 years ago and my UK phone didnt work (even when i turned it upside-down), I have been free of the responsibility of daily charging, and forgetting to turn off ringtones in meetings and at cinemas. But Joe has worn me down and made me realise that I should be contactable sometimes. The main arguement that worked was "well, you can always leave it turned off"

Now I just have the task of choosing from 5000 different brands, types and models of mobile phone. ideally i'd like to have one that just makes phone calls, no other fancy features but somehow dont think such a phone has been invented yet.

You'll all know when I have made my purchase, because I'll be one of the those annoying people trying out all of the different ringtones in a public place somewhere. I'm thinking maybe in the library.

brad tries new cat-food

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logan's leg 2

update on logan's leg (well foot actually). we took him along to the vet on easter sunday to have the cast changed. they thought he might need a sedative but turns out it wasnt needed, he let the vet cut off the splint and bandage with no protest, had his nails trimmed with complete pedicure and rebandaged without need for the plastic splint to be kept on for the next 2 weeks. both kitties also had their 3rd set of vaccinations and so were a bit off colour the next day, not eating their dinner and telling us that they had achy joints. but they soon bounded back to life the next day. they have doubled in weight since we got them - from under 1kg to now 2kg each.

logan's leg

logan's broken foot hasn't affected his appetite, he's still stuffing his face long after brad has finished and wandering off. neither wanted to show their faces on such a public site.

last nights show

I know that we normally talk about ourselves a lot on Not The Real McCoy, but last night we reached a new level of exposing our private life on radio with our Sex Special (although it was really more about relationships and stuff). Sometimes I forget that people are listening and just chat as though its Joe and me having a conversation, or that we are just telling one mate. Probably back to the more trivial subjects next week, or this could be the start of something new, who knows...?