Tank Wars

Sookie: "A few little adjustments to make and then my dastardly plan for world domination shall be complete!"

Sookie: "I'll just move the canon to the right a smidgen... excellent! Now all I have to do is wait..."

Mr Darcy: "Ooh The Tank... let's see what whiffies it has for me today!" *sniff sniff*

Sookie: "My plan is working! Time to load in the cat nip mices and get ready to fire!"

Mr Darcy: "Wait a minute... "

Mr Darcy: "Sookie! Is this another one of your foolish attempts at world domination?"

Sookie: "Err...."

Mr Darcy: "That's it, to the battlefield: I challenge thee to a duel!" 

Sookie: "Oh drat!"

Mr Darcy: "Prepare to meet your maker!"

Sookie: "Haha that tickles Mr Darcy!"

Mr Darcy: "Haha... okay now chase me!!!"

It may be a new year, but old habits die hard. We were woken by a thunderous crash this morning... upon investigation it transpired that a hearty game of chase had resulted in our dressing room mirror being knocked over. Both cats are now well over 4kg so they really do sound like a 'thundering herds of elephants' as they bolt up and down the stairs and around the house!

The cats are loving their new toy the cardboard tank. I think they are supposed to get in it, but I doubt either would easilly fit (don't tell them I said that!). However they are enjoying clambering over it, chewing the edges and stalking one another around it, so I'd call it a success!

I hope that everyone has had a lovely Christmas and New Year break - we have enjoyed lots of down time just chilling out at home with the kitties, it's been so relaxing. Unfortunately it's time to go back to work tomorrow to do *gasp* four whole days in a row - what a shock to the system that will be! Next month I start my new job which means more responsibility and most likely much longer hours, so I'm not sure how often I'm going to be able to blog - but I'm having too much fun as part of the Cat Blogosphere to quit now so maybe I'll just need to post a little less often... we shall have to see how things go.

Plus there is so much to look forward to in the UK this year - for a start it's the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in June marking her 60 year reign and then in July we are hosting the Olympic games! On a more personal note, Mr Darcy will be celebrating his 2nd Gotcha Day at the end of January and Sookie will be 2 in March. 

So get ready to join in the celebrations my friends, it's going to be a great year!!

=^..^=

Our Christmas

Hi everyone, Mr Darcy and Sookie here! We've had a lovely relaxing break over Christmas and hope you all did too. Here's a little bit of what we got up to:

We snoopervised all the unwrapping

Mum and Dad got presents and we got the packaging to play with

Tissue paper is the bestest thing ever!

Mr Darcy: "Gee thanks for that mum!!"

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Sookie: "I'll help with this one!"

Mr Darcy: "Me too!"

Daddy got Star Wars on Blu Ray so Mr Darcy showed off his best Chewbacca impression

Mr D got a birdy!....

...to stop him from eating the birdies on the tree!

We hung out under the tree a lot playing with our new catnip mousies

Oh and Mr D commandeered a tank

Mr Darcy: "That's it Sookie, just a little bit closer!"

Mr Darcy: "I love my tank!"

Mummy says that whilst we were taking a break our friends UrbanHounds,
ManxMNews and Gorogoro and Nikoniko all gave us the Liebster Blog Award!!

"Liebster" means dear,dearest, favorite or beloved in German and so we are very grateful to have received it - thank you all so much and congrats on receiving the awards yourselves - all very well deserved :)

And in the true spirit of Christmas we have received a gift and we will now pass it on to 5 blogs that we love:

Jacqueline's Cat House: These girls (and Daddy Cat!) are always picture perfect and bring a smile to my face whenever I visit

Lucy's Lounge: I first discovered this blog after reading Annie's story on another link. She was very ill at the time but has made a great recovery since with the love and support of her new family and all her friends around the world. I always love to stop by and catch up on what the gang are up to!

Cattywumpus: This is a fairly new blog featuring the illustrations of the very talented Ann Boyajian, telling the story of her cats Skootch and Lucifee. (I am also slightly biased as whenever I see the drawings of Skootch it reminds me of my own Mr Darcy!)

Fuzzy Tails: featuring the adorable and also very funny Nicky and Derry - a great combination!

Brian's Home: A very handsome mancat with some beautiful sisters - if you aren't following Brian's version of the Twelve Days of Christmas already you should check it out!

Christmas Cuddles

Sookie "Oh hai, you may wonder why I look so chilled. Well..."

Sookie: "I love the Christmas holidays because it means..."

Sookie: "...cosy cuddles with my daddy!!"

Mr Darcy: "...and she's not the only one!"

*smooch smooch kiss kiss* Mr Darcy: "Tehee he hee"

Mr Darcy: "Oh... you all saw that." *blush*

Merry Christmas everyone! Love from Mr Darcy, Sookie and their faithful servants Laura and Neil! xoxo

=^..^=

Wordless Wednesday - I haz a cosy!

Food glorious food!

I may have mentioned that Mr D loves food... especially Sookie's food! When we put her bowl on the floor next to Darcy (where she prefers  to eat) this happens:

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Mr Darcy will then stick his head straight into her bowl at which point Sookie will run off, leaving him double portions of the stinky goodness. I therefore used to have to stand guard and act as referee at dinner time.

We have resolved this problem by putting Sookie's food on the kitchen table which is out of Mr Darcy's reach. This doesn't stop him from trying though! Excuse the dark grainy shot but this is what my husband sent me from his mobile the other day!

Mr Darcy, my beautiful little greedy guts!!! =^..^=

Wordless Wednesday

Supervisor Sookie

As I've mentioned, I've been very busy with work recently working long hours and weekends too. The good news is that it was all for a good cause as I went for a promotion and found out this week that I got it! 

It's been quite exhausting but Sookie was on hand to remind me when I really should take a break. Let's just say subtlety isn't her strong point...

*click click clickety click*

"Mama four hours without a break is unacceptable!"

"I have disabled your internet... it's for your own good."

(She really did disable my internet as well... it took me an hour to work out how to get it back - she'd make a brilliant computer programmer!!)