Back Home Again

Yes, both Mickle and Zebbycat came home this afternoon and evening.

I woke up in Tauranga with what I really hoped was just an allergy sniffle. My immune system decided other wise and it soon became a head cold.

Rang the vet centre to let them know I was back in Wellington, and they told me I could come and get Zeb around 6 tonight. Following his various tests, and teeth cleaning and ultrasound under anaesthetic Zeb has shaved patches on his neck, both front legs and a huge area over his tum. I can see his tummy button!

With the lad's undertow his tum rests on the ground when he's sitting, and it is getting a bit cold. After 4 hours at home ( for the first 3 he was completely hyper) he has finally settled on our bed, but wont let his head go down in a snoozle.

My boy has been diagnosed with a (currently) low level Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Cor, the same disease type as me! And his kidney function needs keeping an eye on. too

Typical Zebby - the super smoochy lad won over all the vet centre staff . My daft darling even purred at them today when they were putting in IV needles. He is so popular there I'm lucky I got him back!

Yes, more photos and tales from the weekend soon, just let me get through this slowly descending lurgi (voice starting to croak).

I don't know what Sister said........

..... for Mum to be threatening her with a knife ,

meanwhile Dad looks bemused (?) !!!

Survived it all....

Was a great "do". I made it out of the kitchen after a wee while. Got more huggles than I can remember in a long while.

We made it!

My Takeover Continues...

Preparations for my Folks' big 50th Wedding Anniversary celebrations continue.....

My Dear Folks have openly said to others that "Mickle has been organising us" and they're happy about it!

We are edging closer to D Day (yes they share their wedding anniversary with the anniversary of this other event).

Visit this morning to the deli of chef Peter. Dad went to some cooking classes here a couple of years back. Mum joined in for the meat cookery class. The darling parents were having a great general chat with Peter. I wanted to talk food specifics but struggled to get a word in*. The folks are getting Peter to put together some foodplatters for Saturday. I did get to choose the general make up of them, and request a specific cheese**.

Much of the food needed for cooking and feeding now here. The fridge got a clean anyway. Tomorrow is a lazy day for me - I'm supposedly on holiday, LOL.

Dear Sister Liz, and her partner, Pete arrived in NZ today from England. They are lying low in Auckland tomorrow, then pick up their hire car and drive down to Tauranga ( about 2 1/2 hours) Thursday afternoon.

Then organised the (by me) chaos will happen. Friday I will be cooking and directing the traffic. I am really looking forward to a day of cooking - the folks have a dishwasher, I don't. And much talking - the folks are foolishly going out to be test patients for a graduate nursing course exam in the morning ( no, nowt medically procedural). Leaving Liz, Pete and me loose in their home. There is a good supermarket only a kilometre (less than a mile) away

Now expecting about 40 people on Saturday plus the five of us. Dad and Pete both have digital cameras, so let the fun begin!!!



* Sister is 3 1/3 years older. Apparantly I didn't really talk until she started school aged 5. Then I didn't bother with baby talk rubbish, I spoke in full sentences. Hey, with Liz around I could never get a word in. Family friends even named a budgie "me too" after Mickle. Liz would tell them "we went to ......." as she eventually took a breath I got the brief chance to slip in "me too"! In this aspect Liz takes after our dear Mum!!

** Whitestone Cheese's Windsor Blue, made down in NZ's South Island, is creamy, luscious and bluely devine. Will serve alongside Mickle homemade quince jelly. yummo.

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Coo - how did I find this much to rant and rave about?

Still stunned that folks want to visit here!

The Joke's on Me

My present to dear Mum for Mother's Day this year was to clean the oven once I got up to Tauranga.

Got started this afternoon while the Folks went to a wedding. The gas hob is now gleaming, the shelves all shiny, and you can see your face in the glass on both sides of the oven door.

However, as I accidentally knocked the oven on without realizing while cleaning the outside of the cooker, the actual oven was too hot to clean!

Needed to have it working order for tonight's dinner........... so will clean the internal oven bit tomorrow.

Other progress:

• I've removed and disposed of all the deceased items from their fridge.

• The glass teapot and coffee plunger also now gleam.

• I completed the reconaissance mission while home alone.

So is my home a thing of tidiness and cleanliness? No way. But I don't have 37 guests coming (okay, to be honest you couldn't fit 37 guests into my wee home) .

Have a glorious weekend wherever you are.

Away for a bit...

Hello M'dears. Mickle is off up to the folks place on Thursday. All to help/work on/ takeover(?) the prep for Saturday June 6th.

The Folks 50th Wedding Anniversary.

Zebbycat already dispatched to his Vet Centre's cattery. He was not a happy lad. Will get worse as he has a urine sample taken, then next week gets knocked out to have his teeth checked and cleaned.

Zeb is there with many familiar items - sheepskin, polar fleece blanket, his "quilt" with many holes made by his self, the 2 fluffy scarves he has pinched from me, and his current soft toys. Zeb likes to sleep with the lot.

Gosh, he's not so different from the Child Mickle and my soft toys, especially my Teddy Bear. When I was a toddler dear Dad once had to make a 50 miles road trip coz it had been left behind at somewhere we'd visited.

Teddy Bear, Edwina, now lives in my hot water cupboard where she can be warm and dry all year around. One eye left, most of her face rubbed/loved off, at least she and Zebbycat wont find out about each other this way!