"Let me help you ManSlave." Says his favouite girl, Flaire.  "It's Ok Daddy, I have this with you." As she trips him as he carries the very heavy printer down stairs for Momma to fix.  Just a step at a time as it weighs an awful lot, especially with a couple of us riding on the automatic document feeder and pressing all the buttons in a bid to help him.  He swore quite a bit especially when I climbed up his back using all my back claws to hang on as he balanced the printer and it's extra load of Elton and a hissing spitting Flaire down each step. "Gerroff." he shouted as she thwakked Elton who ducked with the form of a great boxed to her well timed jabs.  When he came to lower it, she dashed from the top to lay underneath to take the weight for him.

Finally, he got the huge printer into the lounge atop two footstools which he carefully covered in painters sheets.  Well, he had covered it all but by the time he had climbed the stairs and headed back down Sol, Mae and Gazoo had jumped in and out of the sheets and dragged them all over the floor.  He had to set the printer down and there a fight ensued again between  Flaire and me as to who was going to get top spot.  It was neither of us, SaBreena got it!  Pfft. She is demanding topcat slot recently and is a bit of a red headed bully.  Well, after some cajoling and a shout for Momma, the sheets were back in place and a great 'chase me charlie' game around and under the sheets happened.  It was such fun that we played for a whole two hours.  ManSlave was meant to clean the printer but Momma and Elton ended up doing it together instead.  Well, Momma did, Elton spent his time ripping the paper towel Momma required for the print heads. Some bits were a tad too small and those were mainly swallowed so as not to waste any!! 

Once we had entertained ourselves, Faith and Lillibet arrived to sit right on top of the printer and it's glass screen was covered with greasy paw prints. Another extra job for Momma to do.  She loves to work hard and we love to help her out.  It's quite amewsing to me that Lillibet only has a few 'safe' places she likes to be in the house and one of those is atop the printer in the office so it was no surprise she took to it so well and spent the evening sleeping in front of the TV and not once did she have one of her stressy fits.  Maybe we need a printer in every room..? Just sayin'.   Faith has always been fascinated with the sound of the printer and squeaks at it when it empties out paper.  Quite the entertainment when it's working.  Their faces were an absolute study when ManSlave plugged it back in and it began to vibrate, cleaning it's self.  We all rolled about laughing at their 'owl ears'.  Much to their dismay!!

Besides that, our weekend has been gentle and uneventful and seeing as the weather was a bit pants, we didn't do much outside lending our minds to making mayhem anywhere we could. 

We hope your weekend was fun and enjoyable.  With all my whiskery kisses from your Queen Vee.  =^..^= 

Momma has been busy today making our communal outside area 75% bigger than it was before making it seventy five times harder to find us among the undergrowth of wild geraniums, foxgloves and salvias.  She can hear us dashing to and fro and all that gives us away is the wiggling of bright green honesty pods back and forth and the rattling of aqualigia seed heads.  We carried on like this for two hours, playing, running and chasing and with the odd cat spat for anyone wanting to sit on the same bit of warm slab stone.    We are so difficult to catch now that Momma had to resort to wheeling out the hosepipe.  Us well behaved cats headed in as soon as the command for 'Alright everyone, in , in ,in..' was announced with only Mae, Elton and Sol remained hidden until the hose sprinkled the plants and out they raced.  Another game....sigh.  Come on kids, we get treats if you are good and quick!

Then it got all too much for Gazoo and she began climbing the outer security fence to catch her a tasty winged treat of pigeon with a side of chaffinch.  It's an odd thing as usually she is one to enjoy watching and has never ventured over the fence, except she is now 30 plus days pregnant and I guess those pigeons are full of fancy flighfull vitamins and minerals.  It's an odd thing when you are up the duff, you really do begin craving more exotic things and I feel Gazoo has a bit of Horrace on her mind.  However, those pesky squirrels are just as cautious as ever as they too are up the duff and can smell her a mile off. 

Mae is a surprising five months old this week.  Just where does the time go?  It has been a full month since her Mum, FillyCat left home for a safer haven and is gradually coming out of her shell with her new lady owner.  She has met a number of the cats and dogs now, just briefly and gently so as not to spook her.  So far there has been a good reception on both sides and she is happy to stay with her human for comfort and trusts her to take all the fears away.  We are not worried it is taking awhile as she is a nervous girl and being a lockdown baby just didn't see anyone at all.  She is a very gentle girl, so we know she can do it and have a much less stressful home with no drama queens to contend with.  

On the same note, Ikon has been in his new home for little under a month and essentially walked in, sized up everyone and everything and decided 'this will do'.  I t was a perfect place for him in the end to go to friends of ours in Yorkshire where they have a terrific garden, a couple of easy going dogs and a Parrot called Mrs Miggins, who he still isn't pals with yet. No bad thing!!  He does however, play with Pants the little Terrier dog and steals her bed regularly.  Once her is re-microchipped for the UK he will be able to venture out into the garden and play tag with his canine mates.  They go for long walks too and may even start to take him in a rucksack.  He would love that. We are so happy he is happy, especially me, he was my nemesis!!

Gazoo will be due in July. She will be very busy until then scratching up the bedding and boxes and Momma's pillows until then. For now, she rests frequently and spends a little time in the kitten room. We can see her through the cat flap where she blows raspberry over the giant bowl of kitten kibbles.... Grrr.  Never mind. We give her a splendid thwakking once she appears.  I just doa bit of chasing but SaBreena is going all out. She does not want to be anything less than TOPCAT!  She has also been beating Mae up too, grabbing mouthfuls of blue and white fur.  Both Gazoo and Mae sleep with Momma to keep them from the jaws of Bree.  I have to sleep in with her instead to keep her in check!

Sol will stay here for the Summer months as he has a few Ladies to service before he heads off to his family.  He was meant to go to a breeder in America, but due to Covid it became difficult to fly him out there, so vaccinated for travel, documented and ready for an entire life, he stayed to make a few Maystar ladies happy making Gazoo and Sol a wonderful match of two fourth generation Maystar lines to come together for the first time.  An exciting match.  Their first union didn't go so well, Gazoo lost her babies and got an infection and has been on long term antibiotics until a week ago.  Now those babies seem quite stable and a scan has shown many spinning babies, everyone is much happier.  She will still have all she needs to hopefully get to full term this time. 

Talking of full term.  This has exhausted me no end and I need a right royal kip now.  I shall bid thee fartheewell until next time. 

​Your Queen Vee =^..^=

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