Our big adventure part 2

What an exciting couple of weeks we’ve had.

We’ve spent the last couple of weeks settling in and getting used to our new home. Exploring every nook and cranny, finding out where everything is, which is really difficult when mummy and daddy keep moving things around. There aren’t so many box mountains as there were in our old flat before but instead there’s a whole sea of boxes. It very strange as some things smell of us but other things don’t so it’s quite confusing, plus our new home is much bigger so mapping is going to take a bit longer than before.

Once my grandpawents had gone and we’d settled in a little bit more mummy took me out for my first walkies. The air smelt different here, clean and fresh but with a funny smell sometimes, something that I didn’t recognise. It was very quiet outside, no people noises, no planes, no trains but there were some of those metal monsters that mummy calls cars . Then there was a noise like nothing else I have ever heard, it was LOUD and deep and I could pretty much feel the ground shake. “It’s ok Jenny” mummy said “It’s a tractor, it’s very noisy but it won’t hurt you.” Well I think that tractors must be very angry beasts to make such a noise, I’ll make sure I stay away from them for now. Then, over the next couple of days I heard other strange noises, this time I recognised them as animals but I had to ask mummy what they were, apparently we have cows and sheep around us which make funny noises and they make the funny smells I didn’t recognise. I’ve also met a horse, clip clopping along the road past our house one day.

As well as the house I’ve been mapping the garden too, but by bit I go a bit further each time, it didn’t take me long to find not one but two trees to climb, even better they’re all mine, my own personal climbing trees, complete with birds to play with. There’s loads of birds around here, tweeting and fluttering about in the hedges. I’m going to have great fun trying to make friends with all of them.

There’s been lots of people coming and going in and on the house. It’s been quite stressful as we hadn’t really had the chance to map the house for safe zones. There’s been people delivering things, people in the house, outside the house and even on the house. There’s been loud noises of all kinds, I didn’t even realise there were so many noises that I hadn’t heard. There’s been watery noises, drilling noises, banging, rattling, sawing, scraping, crinkling, rustling, rasping and pretty much every other noise I could ever dream of. It’s ok though daddy’s been looking after us and making sure we’re ok when it’s noisy and whilst it was every day to start with it’s gradually tailed off and become a bit more infrequent which is much better for us as we get to relax a bit in between. After a while I’m sure the noises won’t bother us and bit by bit we’ll get used to them.

Whilst daddy is looking after us we’re looking after mummy, she has to go off to work every single day. She first deserted us after only two days in our new house, I missed her terribly, I need mummy around to help me relax and find my way at home, daddy does a good job but I have a special bond with mummy. Daddy says it’s very tough starting a new job and when mummy comes home she says her brain hurts. So, that’s when I take mummy out for a nice relaxing walkies, we chat away about what we’ve been up to all day. I know mummy enjoys our time outside together as much as I do so we explore together and I show mummy that I’m getting to know my way around the garden a bit better every day. I love helping mummy in the garden, I’m specially good at weeding, mummy pulls the weeds out and then I pounce on them to make sure they’re dead – Ha! Gotcha Mr. Weed, you’re deader than dead now! “Good girl, we’ll done Jenny, you’re a great helper” Then after a bit more running around, it’s time to go in.

Mummy makes the dinner and then her and daddy move more stuff around and unpack more boxes, then before we can say let’s have a cuddle it’s time for bed. So just to make sure that mummy gets a good night cuddle we all pile on and snuggle up to make sure we all get a good nights sleep.

As much as moving house was very stressful and not something I enjoyed and certainly not something I want to do any time soon I love my new home. There’s so much to listen to, hear and smell that I haven’t experienced before. It’s an exciting time to be a blind adventure cat.