Spring cleaning

Mummy and daddy have been spring cleaning, that means everything cleaned from top to bottom and a fun time to be their good little helpers. Of course every task they do needs to be supervised and then inspected and it’s a lot of work so it’s just as well there’s three of us and only two of them!

Mummy did the windows so of course I climbed up onto the ledge to inspect and point out that she missed a bit and by putting my paws all over the bottom window when climbing up she realised she had to do it again as it just wasn’t good enough! She seemed to think that it was ok and it was my paws that were “mucking up her clean windows” but that just goes to show that her standards aren’t as high as a blind cats!

Daddy got rid of all the crunchy limescale bits in the bath and this was great fun as we love playing in the bath (as long as it’s empty) but apparently cats claws are not the same as the coin that daddy used to scrape away the this stubborn stuff. Seriously I think daddy is underestimating the power and versatility of our claws. Still we let him get on with the hard work and of course sat there in and around the bath just judging him and his work instead.

Then there’s the dusting, mummy used these fluffy dusters and I love helping with this bit. The dusters make gently little swooshing sounds which are just so tempting to catch. I follow mummy everywhere she goes, meowing to her that she needs to do this bit and that bit and when she misses a bit I pounce on the duster to make her realise she needs to go back. I even help reach up at the front of the units to make sure she does all of those and the drawer handles, standing right up high on my tippy paws and reaching the highest handle this one first mummy, then this one, don’t forget this one over here. The fluffy bits tickle my paws when I pounce on them and sometimes when I try to catch it with my teeth I just get a mouthful of fluff. Mummy and I chat away whilst we do this and she always says “where shall we go next Jen” or “shall we go over here now?” Then every so often she says “well maybe I should just dust you, after all it’s mostly your fur that I’m picking up and then she tickles me all over with the fluffy bits, I just love it and meow and chirp as the fluff tickles me all over. Dusting is such a fun game, I’m not sure why mummy doesn’t seem to like it very much, I wish we played it more often!

We also play a game with daddy when he cleans the glass tables, as soon as he’s done it up we hop to have a good look and then apparently, much like the windows, he has to do it again to get rid of our paw prints. The game is that we try to put as many paw prints on the table before daddy touches our paws with the cloth. If you get tagged with the cloth then you’re out. Even with two blindies playing daddy doesn’t stand a chance against our super blindie senses, we just know where the cloth is and we hop off the table before daddy gets too close plus Millie only has three paws to avoid daddy with so she’s already got an advantage against him. The game can go on for a long, long time. We’re like a tag team, the three of us taking turns Millie first, then as she nearly gets wiped off, Angelin jumps up and as her paws nearly get the cloth treatment it’s my turn, sometimes I even get the chance to get a little twirl in too before daddy gets close to me with the cloth. Then we feel sorry for daddy so we let him at least catch one of us so he feels a bit better but we always make sure we win the table cleaning game, it will never be completely paw print free! Daddy says he’s never buying a glass table ever again.

Then mummy does the floors with the horrid puffing dragon machine. As if the hoover wasn’t bad enough, this machine makes loud huffing noises and makes the floor all warm and wet and it smells funny. I’m not sure why this machine is allowed to stay here coz if I made the floor all wet I’d be in trouble! We’re not allowed to help with this bit and mummy is really mean and shuts us out of each room as she does it. But then, just as mummy opens the door a little tiny crack to see if the bit she’s done is dry we all rush through to check what she’s been doing. “No girls! Get your paws off my clean floor!” She shouts but it’s too late there’s already a trail or three of paw prints 🐾. So off she goes again with the dragon machine puffing away for a second time. This time though she’s much more careful when opening the door again and says to us “if any of you dare to go out there again there’ll be trouble.” Well, we’re cats so we’re used to trouble so sometimes we go again and sometimes we don’t! Either way we win 😺

Recently daddy bought a new toy to do something called “cleaning the grout” it sound like mummy’s toothbrush and so I hope he’s not just using that to clean the bathroom floor with. Millie loves this new toy and as the bathroom is one of her favourite places she was right there with daddy helping him. She pointed out bits he’d missed by pouncing on the buzzing toy and this meant that daddy had to do some bits again but this time with some chemical. So Millie was tasked with being the door supervisor and daddy said she wasn’t to let any of us into the bathroom whilst daddy was inside. Then after a while daddy came out and said that we still couldn’t go in for a while until it was all dry. The smell coming from under the door was irresistible and we were all desperate to go in but Millie stood her ground and even though she was excited about the smell she wouldn’t let us in. Eventually daddy came back and we were allowed in to inspect his handwork. We all rolled around over the floor inspecting and sniffing ever bit to make sure it was all done. Well daddy had done a good job but we decided to stay in there for a bit just to make sure (and enjoy the smell).

I would just like to say that whilst we help out with the housework we’re never left alone or unsupervised and we’re never allowed near any of the stinky chemicals that mummy and daddy use until they say it’s safe for us to be near.