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Friday, 30 November 2018

Day 37 of 100, Thursday 29th November


I just could not get to sleep last night, no particular reason. Mewly and Lady came to lie next to my legs and then Mewly attacked Lady Jane to wash her head thoroughly! It was too darling to watch – he is such a lover boy!

Another late morning – I’m getting really tired of it! At least the weather has improved, still windy but at least it’s sunny. I heard Rose arriving, so I went down for a chat – hadn’t seen her since the weather turned! She cleared up the mystery of Lady Jane’s upset tummy: Her Ladyship had got hold of a bird egg and ate it! That was before the throwing up started, so – silly girl eating everything she finds, upset her own tummy!

It’s not really too late to go shopping, but I soooo don’t want to.

Sigh, I had just saved the above when the power went out! It was just after noon, seriously? Turns out that our government decided to surprise us with another load shedding session! No warning, no announcement – just: poof! Oh and just to make it interesting, instead of the standard two-hours, they decide this time power is off for two and a half hours! Isn’t that just lovely? Oh and it was on the news only AFTER it started! And just to add more fun to the mix, apparently geysers will be switched off from six to half nine tonight – so: geyser off from 8:00-10:00, like every day, then off again from 12:00-14:30 due to load shedding and again from 18:00-20:30.

I decided to go shopping while the power was out – only, I couldn’t operate the manual garage door opener. I think I should have pulled harder, but I wasn’t sure – after all I had only one demonstration, when I moved in. I was afraid that if I pulled harder – but didn’t have the strength to pull hard enough – I’d end up disconnecting the automatic without being able to open manually. Better safe than sorry, and I’m still not desperate for groceries, so: no worries.

Oh dear, Lady Jane just came in and threw up! Again! Only, this time she was sitting on the chair … okay, so the one cover got soiled, no problem. Only, then she takes a few steps backward and throws up again! All in all, she soiled both the blankies and the carpet! So … blankets in the machine, wash, hang up to dry. Poor girl was upset about the mess she’d caused and stayed around to ‘help’ with the washing and hanging up – afterwards she cuddled for a long, long time! I went downstairs and: Lo and behold, the rest of that egg is gone! Silly girl just doesn’t learn, does she? Now she’s staying right by me – mostly under my feet, though!

I washed the dishes and then started dinner. I chopped the cucumber in the Twista – which gives unevenly sized pieces, something I cannot do manually. Why? I just can’t help myself! You can ask a friend of mine – first time she saw me cutting chives she couldn’t believe her eyes: they were all the exact same length! She looked around for the ruler I was using … Ha Ha Ha

Anyway, I chopped the cucumber, two tomatoes, added a tin of shredded tuna, the juice of a lemon and the left-over sour cream, cooked some spaghetti, and: viola! Dinner is served!

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