Rustle And The Cat Will Come

Our old cat Speedy who left us last year hated plastic. Genuinely. Just the noise of it was enough to make him run the other way, and I thought this was a general rule of thumb for cats. I guess it makes sense because to them it is just a horrible noise with no real reason. Plus a plastic bag blowing in the wind might look like some sort of evil winged creature..

With the two cats we have now, it is very much the same with one. Gracey is not interested and would rather waddle off upstairs to lay on our bed as she usually does - as I am typing this she is laying on the end of the bed. She really does waddle, if only you could see it then you would understand.

Bella on the other hand seems to love it. We put plastic bags on the chairs in the kitchen so that they would not cover them in cat fluff - what has ended up happening is Bella sleeps on the plastic bags. She also stalks around under the tables on the chairs watching people, all atop the plastic bags. If we move them off onto the floor to use the table, she lays on the plastic bags once again and just watches us. I got on board with it, just a quirky cat thing - until today. My parents have been clearing some stuff out of cupboards which were all stored in plastic bags, and she was batting them as they were piled on the floor. And then this happened.

At the time, we were eating our tea and all of a sudden my Mum started calling us into the living room and there she was, quite happily sitting in a bag. We tried calling her out of it, offered fusses and she just wasn't interested even a little bit. I took a little recording of her, then this picture - and then picked her up in the bag. She didn't like that too much but she had a wiggle around and then hopped out when I put her down, but that is something I can say I have done that not a lot of other people will have. I assume. Who knows, maybe cats love that.

On the D&D front, I ordered some dice as I mentioned before and they came! I do like the pattern, the numbering is nice and my friend who I play with had made a dice bag which I now use. Everything is so purple, I am also happy to say that it appears non borrowed dice did seem to let me get some decent roles, passing some different checks and actually killing some stuff!

This week, our little team were tasked with finding the source of a camp causing problems in the north, possibly populated by bandits or goblins like we had already encountered the week before. We came across a little horde of goblins scouting the area who we had far too much trouble destroying.. Mainly due to me breaking in the dice still, poor roles were still a thing. After that we encountered or first dragon! It was a Green Dragon Wyrmling so it was only a baby which, due to good rolls, was beheaded in a single turn. Cheeky magic bolt, cheeky angry barbarian chopping. It is so much fun, and playing is just inspiring me more to make my own story to share. The only problem is, I want to do it all proper, so researching it and making random events tables, and making sure there is a range of difficulties and all that jazz. It might be a while.. But it will give me another heading to include along the top!

We have also just booked in to see the film We Are Your Friends on Thursday which is the release day, it was directed by Max, the silver dude from Catfish if you have seen that MTV show. Looks awesome. I shall let you know at some point our verdict - mine will likely be it was awesome because I like most films.. Yeah.

Thank you once again for reading, I am thankful for each and every view I receive as always. Blog you later!

A Little Taste Of America

This time last year, me and Amy were in America. I know a year is quite a long time but I can remember everything quite vividly as it was an amazing two week experience. Today, I have felt a lot closer to the memories, with all the different little things happening. For a start, the weather has been lovely, pretty hot but humid - which I know is no where near what we had in Florida but it was an admirable attempt by England.

I know it seems like a strange thing to bring you close to a memory, but what really did it for me was a visit to Costco. Yes, Costco. Myself and Amy aren't members but two good friends are and you can take in a guest with each card. The Costco itself was the one at Lakeside so we actually started off with a little wonder around IKEA so that part of the day was pretty Swedish.. But after that, over to Costco.

A Step In Which Direction?

It's been a while hasn't it? To be exact, 65 days which doesn't include today because I am technically writing on here now. No, I did not work that out, I Googled it because of the internet and it's many wonderful mysteries. Usually, I'll refer to it as 'before' when I was blogging more often, I would apologise for such a delay. Whilst I had no intention to take such a prolonged break from posting, it just sort of happened and felt right. I didn't feel like I was enjoying it nearly as much as I used to, and I personally attribute it to the daily pictures - which I think was a good idea, but labelling them and feeling compelled to find something to post each day, took the fun away. I was actively looking for something, anything to post even if it wasn't that interesting to look at. It was a picture which I could label and say I posted the picture for that day. You may have noticed running up to the break, there were more and more pictures being sourced online because I didn't feel like I had anything around to share. I'm writing this on here to everyone to read, but at the same time, I feel like I am trying to justify this to myself. Regular readers might understand, new people I have probably just freaked out - hi by the way. So what now? I am going to try and post again, find my rhythm because I want my online diary back.

The ironic thing is, I have basically had two months away in which I have done plenty of different things, and nothing erupts to my finger tips to talk about first. Oh the irony.

Let us start with a couple of adventures to London, as you may recall, me and Amy both have Merlin Annual passes so we can get into a number of places in London with fast track and stuff like that meaning we can do quite a lot of stuff in a single day. Which I quite like because a travel card is about £20 each so the more you cram in, the more you get for your money. We got an email closer to the start of the year from Merlin letting us know about their new attraction in London, which is now actually being advertised on the TV for Shrek Adventure. It is best described as the London Dungeons but for kids.