Exciting times in the camp again. Lets face it, we have lots but this is a good one, especially if you’re Amanda - we have kittens! They have arrived a little earlier than planned but circumstances dictated their inclusion into the fold. Last Saturday night at about nine thirty, there was a knock at the door. It was Emma, Peter & Pam’s daughter, holding on to two tiny black kittens. “They followed two of the walkers back from the village”, she said, “what am I going to do them?”
Easy answer to that one. Within ten minutes a blanket and box was prepared and they went into our shower. Having just got out of it, I dressed and walked (limped, but that’s another story) up into Reeth to try and find their owner. It took me about half an hour to find her. It was pretty obvious that whilst they weren’t being mis-treated, they weren’t exactly getting their needs as twelve-week-old kittens met. I suggested this to her at which point she admitted she wanted to find them a new home. So I said we’d take them to France with us and that they had a good new home.
I got back to find Amanda cooing over a box of black fur, having already discovered their quite different personalities and deciding which was Coco and which was Gigi. She was disappointed to learn that I had found their owner and delighted that she was now their new mum.
Gigi is the smaller and most feisty one. She’s a bit braver and more sociable. Coco is a little more in her own space but nonetheless a very amicable little thing. Gigi seems to have made her allegiances with Amanda and Coco with me. And that’s just in 72 hours. So far there have been no allegiances with Pooch and there’s a definite tension between them. If he’s too close they hiss and spit at him and in return he snaps at them. At the moment it is not all love and peace. They are all very interested in each other, but the cats are just unaware that he’s a big softy and won’t harm them. I guess that’ll change with time.
As for the rest of the news, all is going apace with our purchase at La Besse. We should be all sorted within the next week or so. Only another 5 weeks and we’ll be French residents. Have to say we are really looking forward to the move. I have been busy working out the holiday cottages and the end barn and putting together budgets and spec sheets. I think I’ll start a new blog when we move. Watch this space! Right now we are in Cumbria and on Thursday we head to Warwickshire to see my brother and revamp his kitchen. Kinda get back into working. We spent a full day dragging out the storage unit and repacking ready for moving the other day. I was knackered.
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Hi Richard, Amanda, Pooch, Coco and Gigi, just watched the video of the kittens, AWWWWWWHHHHH, they are soooo cute, am so pleased you kept them, it was like it was meant to be. Hope the kitchen is coming along ok, see you back at the park soon, Emma, Anth, Jack and Lucie p.s Jack was not impressed that you had gone when we were up last week, he has been telling everyone how he was helping chop trees ! see you all soon x
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