A Few of My Favourite Things !

Weekend Cat Blogging is being hosted by Amar at Cat Synth this week.

Spring is finally here and Bella is following my example in taking in the warmth on the still occassional warm days when the sun’s rays are getting through.

Thanks to Bonnie for hosting WCB this weekend!

Bella loves getting into and under and inside things like bags, boxes, blankets and she even managed to get stuck in behind the pantry drawer once when, not realising she had crawled in from underneath when I wasn’t looking, I slid the door shut. Here she’s in the bag while Tasha looks indulgently upon her playful sister.

This week WCB is being hosted by Heather.

This is a kitty tunnel that dad bought them and they really like this too…but not quite as much as the pipecleaners!

Celebrate WCB with us here!

Winter is very much upon us now and I think our clever kitties have discovered that we turn on the electric blanket in the evening some time before we are ready for bed because they don’t always seem inclined to spend time with us on the couch in the evenings. They appear to prefer the warmth of our bed to the warmth of our company. Here’s another way of staying warm though - by wrapping themselves up in the blanket that we abandon when we are ready for bed!

Before drawing this picture, my niece wanted to know whether ‘the cats’ would rip the paper to bits with their sharp claws if I gave it to them! As you can see, they gave the drawing due attention!

I like lying on my stomach to read (even tho’ I know that this is so bad for my back!) and the cats, especially Bella, like to cuddle up in front of my chest, between me and the book/newspaper that I’m perusing. Sometimes though, they will actually attempt to sit ON the newspaper itself and give me glances as if to say “Look at ME!”. I’m well aware of this being a most effective way of getting attention as I myself as a toddler used to sit on the exact article in the newpaper that my mum would be reading! How naughty of me…and isn’t it nice to know that my kitties take after me? Heh heh.

I’ve been slack with WCB lately and I even missed the big news, but we’re back & we wish Clare & Casey the best!

Look what I got for Mother’s Day! Aren’t my parents the best? te hee hee

After getting up extra early on a Sunday for the Mother’s Day Classic, a fun run around Melbourne’s Botanical Garden, we rushed around to Sydney Road to pick up some Lebanese sweets to share when our families came over that afternoon. I didn’t get photos of the Knafi, a Lebanese pastry made with clotted cream and topped with pistachios and syrup, but we normally order it in a huge tray that measures 50-60cm in diametre. We normally have this with kaak, a type of bread sprinkled with sesame seeds. This dessert is popular for celebratory-type occasions such as the day after a wedding. I’m always astounded by the similarities in food between cultures and for those who are familiar, kaak is almost exactly like the Asian ‘Ham Cheem Bang’ (sorry, my terrible guess at the spelling!) minus the cinnamon. Hmmm, I wonder who came up with it first?

I love shops in which the assistants fold your clothes neatly in tissue paper and slide them gently into heavy paper bags. Makes the shopping experience even more worthwhile. Of course, once we get it home we normally leave the bags lying around for the cats to hide in, ambush each other from and generally to use as they wish. Look at how much they enjoyed this Bally bag!

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I can’t believe that Tasha & Bella were ever so little! They were around 6 weeks old at this stage and we didn’t get to take them home until they were 3 months old. It would have been really nice to had them home at this age, but I guess we ended up with better behaved cats this way.

Bella is giving me her usual bedroom eyes look while Tasha is curiously trying to figure out what’s going on from the back. Spending afternoons with them is so much fun because they try to cuddle up as close to us as they can, then settle themselves down into a comfortable position.

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