Cat flap trouble...

Well I suppose it had to happen one day, but I didn't expect it to be in winter... you'd think I'd be used to the cats bringing creatures in by now, but the last thing I expected to meet on the stairs on a Monday morning was a frog... Of all the things that have been brought in through the cat flap I think this was the worst...

Frogs are all very well from a distance, and I spent most of last summer defending them from the cats who kept catching them. But I think the frogs are stalking me now - it started with one who I'd just rescued from a cat, which then jumped on my bare foot in the garden. Next were the frogs who always seemed to be waiting to jump on me on wet summer evenings, and now we've had one in the house...

Things that go bump in the night...

With 6 cats there has to be a head count before we can go to bed, but when the missing one turns out to be under a bed, it's easy to think it doesn't matter as he's asleep - what trouble could a sleeping cat cause? Well... once he wakes up and climbs onto the wardrobe top he's going to need an easy way down - I heard him go up there, and had the foresight to roll over onto my side in case he landed on my belly or face - I'm just lucky he only landed on my feet, and the duvet acted as padding...

Mystery solved...

The mystery of the missing Lego Santa was solved when the tree was taken down. He was behind the sideboard in several pieces, not sure how he managed to land there if he was knocked off the tree by a cat, so maybe he just dived for cover at the sight of a large tabby heading up the tree towards him...

Missing Lego Santa

So... we've reached January with the tree and most of it's decorations still intact - well one of the strings of lights has stopped working but I don't think the cats can be blamed for that - after all it's the ones in the other room that I've seen them chewing. They probably haven't done anything to the tree lights...

But we do have a missing Lego Santa - it's a mystery - all that remains is the red thread that he dangled from and a single piece of red Lego from his hat...

Well it wasn't me - look it's still there...

But where's Santa now...?