return of a familiar?
very familiar, that's all i will say about that....
kiku and i had a different holiday in cornwall recently. she hired a 3 bedroomed cottage just outside a tiny village called duloe. the manor house within the grounds has had some famous [?] vicars/rectors in the past one of whom rev. carroll/dobson wrote 'alice' here. i can't remember which was his psuedenim. beautiful georgian house, kiku went a bit funny when walking around it... she's got a 'thing' about georgian architecture
odd really as she is usually only into avant garde, comtemporary and minimilist.......apparently mies van der roe, frank ghery, and f.l. wright reature heavily amongst her books, nuff about her..
we had our usual pleasant journey down to the west country, stopping off at stonehenge for a munch to eat and hello to the old girls [stones!], hardly any traffic on the road and excellent weather. we arrived midafternoon and after receiving the keys to the cottage, kiku took me for a exploration around the abode. well i must say it was up to scratch except kiku forgot my scratching post and i had to get the occasionel scratch in here and there when i thought she wasn't looking!
kiku decide the main double bedroom with bathroom ensuite would be ours, well that suited me fine. which left two other bedrooms and two bathrooms to test each and every day. i led kiku a fine old dance, every time she came back in from somewhere, [shopping, sightseeing, visiting, swimming.. she was relentless] i made sure i was ensconsced in a different room, slept behind a bedroom door once .. that made her fur fly i can tell you!!
i have to say the supply of interesting titbits was up to standard even dare i say above and beyond the call of duty.. how come she decided she had to prep and bake so many different dishes for little ol' me???? the first evening was mexican night apparently chicken fahitas, beef tortillas, salad, tacos, baked skins [?] and a very large jug of margaritas. though i noticed whislt that was chilling in the fridge she was drinking golden tequila.. so why did she bother messing up a perfectly good drink? as long as i had plenty of tastes all for me, kiku could drink what she wanted.
once or twice kiku went out and came back in wet, now that was odd as it wasn't raining and we had a perfectly good selection of washing rooms within the cottage, once she came back scarlet as well as wet, something to do with saunas and steam rooms, why??
oddly enough, family that i recognised came and went even though this wasn't our home and we weren't visiting at their home... something was afoot..
ahah sussed it they are giving me a huge party?
ah no, apparently not, the grande dame of the family was to be 90 and i thought i was the eldest! well when every body arrive from various quarters of the world and locally, there were about 14 - 16 of them right down to two tiny's, one nearly 4 years the other only 20 months, fortunatley neither wanted to pull my whiskers so i allowed them to stroke my fur, they were gentle so i didnt snap but backed off as soon as possible after all i dont like folk taking liberties.
i stayed curled up on kiku's bed during the celebrations which was remarkeably well behaved. if they are to continue like that i may allow them all to visit again. the had mostly gone by midnight though i saw kiku involved in a game of monopoly, looked like she had gathered a vast amount of money but not a lot of property, i shall have to tell her you have to speculate to accumulate...oh she just whispered in my ear, some people just wont sell no matter what the inducements??
ah well not for me to judge.... with all those people i cannot see that much food was eaten, though we ate well for the next few days. was this a success?
after all this time away we eventually had to repack the car, and to be honest i thought there was more to go in than we drove down with? but kiku left an empty seat in the car for me to stretch out on and we eventually returned to london and our 'little' flat.
so now here i am perched on top of her keyboard doing 'my' thing and she is checking my spelling or so she said?
miaow purr to you all later
