Well, I’m not so sure if it’s secret or not but we found it so we’re claiming it. It’s the perfect room for us kitties, it’s warm, got lots of things to climb on and according to Millie a great place to watch the birdies from. Mummy and daddy call it the conservatory or ‘cons club’ but we call it the C3 headquarters. It’s where we can go in private to hold very impawtant board meetings to mostly discuss how we can get extra treats and cuddles from daddy whilst mummy is at work. we’re very diplomatic, we all get a say and a vote and then I as Queen get to implement whatever I want and the others completely ignore me and do what they want anyway but at least we all knew what each other was going to do! It’s just how kitty diplomacy works and it’s just the right way to go about things to keep everything moving and for us to each get our own way. Imagine the chaos of having to actually agree on everything, we’d never get anything done!
Of course when we’re not discussing and voting on impawtant topics the room can be used for other, much more informal but equally as important things such as bird watching, napping and sunbathing. It also makes a great warm up room for my climbing activities as I can get my leg muscles moving gently with a quick, easy climb on the furniture and I can practice my balance by strutting my stuff along the narrow windowsills. All the while in my mind I’m pretending that I’m exploring the branches of the biggest, highest tree in the worlds largest forest. What fun adventures can be had right in your own home, you’ve just got to let your imagination go.
Then, one day we were sitting in there discussing some very important issues, like how do we get mummy to stay home more and who is going to have the comfy chair for the day when…ping….ping…..tap….tap…..tap..tap..tap.tap.taptaptaptaptap oh my Catness the noise is so loud it’s making my ears hurt, what on earth is falling from the sky? We’d better get outta here in case something falls on us. Then Millie looked out of the window and just as daddy came in she meowed “hey! It’s raining.” Then daddy came in and said “it’s ok girls, it’s nothing to be scared of, it’s just the rain but it’s really pouring down and those raindrops sound so much louder in here, bouncing off the cons club roof, it makes quite a racket.” “Well daddy, that’s the loudest rain I’ve ever heard, I thought something terrible was happening” I meowed. Then as we all sat together and listened to it, with daddy telling us it was ok and nothing was going to hurt us, the noise became kind of soothing, repetitive and just blended into the background. Once I’d got over the initial shock and my ears had adjusted to the noise I felt kind of safe and secure, knowing that outside was getting all wet and rained on but here were were with daddy all together, warm and dry and just listening to the natural world around us from the comfort of our own home. Daddy was right it was nothing to be worried about and it’s just another new noise that we have to get used to as part of our new country life we’re living now. Then as quickly as it came it went away again, leaving behind it that lovely fresh smell that’s so exciting on my nose, “When’s mummy coming home so we can go out for walkies and enjoy the wet garden smell” I asked daddy, “She’ll be home later on to take you out and by then the grass will be a bit drier so your paws and tummy won’t get too wet.”
Our new room is also great for playing, after all we can’t be all work and no play, mummy put some toys in here that we were given by our lovely Instagram buddies @turbomantomcat and we just love them. You can hide in them, climb them, sleep in them and best of all play together in and on them, plus they make a great viewpoint to hear all the outside noises. All in the comfort of our own special room, mummy also said that if we get bored of them she can just take them apart and move them around so it is a gift that just keeps on giving. Thank you so much, we feel very honoured to have such kind furriends around us.
As it turns out the ‘cons club’ is also a great place to watch and judge mummy when she’s outside doing manual labour. Apparently not all outdoor activities are appropriate for us to join mummy in. Whatever mummy was doing was very noisy so I was glad I was inside and able to supervise her from there. It was fun watching mummy and every so often she’d tap on the window and say “How am I doing Jen, am I doing a good job?” “Of course, mummy, you’re doing very well” I shout through the glass, I know that humans need a lot of praise to keep motivated when doing manual labour tasks.
I thought I’d lived quite an adventurous life so far but who knew there were still so many new things to listen to, to smell and to experience. I didn’t realise life could get even more adventurous that it already was. There’s some things that are so new and exciting like the rain on the C3 club roof but also things that are every day that I can just get used to, like the cars and tractors that I had met before in London but mummy kept me away from them as much as possible because they’re so loud and scary and came so close to us but here I’m gradually getting used to them (as long as they stay on their side of my hedge) as they go past the garden all the time. I guess learning what you really should be scared of and what you think you should be scared of is all part of learning to have a happy and fun life, we can’t always live in fear and sometimes facing the fearsome metal car monster you realise they’re not so bad after all. Maybe I’m growing up?
Jenny’s Story 