Jean and cats (by sarah)

Every where Jean goes she seems to find cats! 🙂

She loved it when we visisted Charlee and Andy on route from Essex back to Gloucestershire.

Burn Baby Burn (by sarah)

A few weeks ago we helped Barbara with a 'bonfire' these are regular occurances and are designed to get rid of the stuff thats too smokey to burn on the fire and too woody to compost. It was a very smokey affair.

I wanted to get a photo of Barbara jumping up and down on top of the fire to 'get it going' but alas she was too quick and by the time I'd got the camera she had climbed down again!

The Cats! (by sarah)

Cute and funny cat pictures!

An Interllectual Minni:

Minnis arch nemasis - the Kittens!

The Truce:

Mank, Mank and More Mank (by sarah)

Well I've been doing the Spring cleaning and was horrified when I decided to clean down the shelves in the larder cupboard. I went to lift the little stacking can shelves unit only to discover that it was horbouring somehting so foul and disgusting that I gagged.

The unit appeared to be glued to the shelf, I prized it off with a disturbing sucking noise. A foul stench assulted my nose and brown gloop went glop!

Some how, dont ask me how! Insects of verious types seemed to have drown in condesation in the cavity space underneith the unit. How they got in there I do not know as there didnt seem to be any residences in there whilst I was cleaning (as in live ones). It wasnt just one type of insect either (ok look I'm a scientist I looked and prodded ok) - how they got under there I do not know.

They had superated and fermented and turned - well ickky!

It was disturbing and resulted in me going for a bit of over kill in cleaning the cupboard including throwing away open packets of things - this was a bit silly as there hadnt been a smell or anything until I broke the surface tension that had sealed the unit onto the shelf. I then washed the entire cupboard and disinfected it etc...

It was Mank of the highest kind.

The Mechevious Munchkin! (by sarah)

Jean is coming on in leaps and bounds!

Uhoh - means I'm dropping this object or I'm back on my bottom when I should be standing etc...

Babeee - means anything that you cuddle especially teddy bears and cats.

Shooosh - means shoes, socks and trousers, presumably becuase they all go on or over her feet!

Door - seems to mean any componenet of a building so doors, windows, walls and floors!

Ubbish - is the latest and appeares to mean rubbish and is also code word for I dont want this peice of yummy any more mummy.

Her walking is really good! And the nursery commented on it and apparently she hadnt been walking there at all - now she objects if shes not walking! Also she now had ideas about where she wants to go. If you try and steer her in another direction she just sits down!

Here are some cute pictures!

Jean has also discovered the whole blowing nose thing! If you start blowing you nose she wrinkles hers up and huffs, she will also insist on having a piece of tissue that she holds somewhere in the region of her mouth and nose and huffs on it - general just ending up eating half of it! But the really sweet thing (ok I'm her adoring perant ok) is that she will try and blow your nose for you by holding the tissue to your face.

This is a photo of her trying to blow Minnis nose, she also subjects the kittens and many of her toys to the same treatment!

She also regually sits and pretend to be eating or possibly cooking, she even puts imaginary things in the bowls and attempts stiring and if your really lucky she tries to feed it too you. This is infantly more tasty and pleasant than when she sttempts to feed you her fishermans pie etc... Or when she tries to share her beef cassorole with Al!

She is feeding herself really well too although I did come in to find she was weebabixing the cats with squeals of joy as they proceeded to eat it off of each others backs!