12 Nov 2016 33 Comments
in Challenges, Poems, Sonu Singh, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #TJ's Household Haiku Challenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, Haiku, Peeking, Sonu Singh
It’s been a while, but TJ is back with another weekend haiku prompt!
The word today is
I immediately thought of a great photo that I could add to this prompt, alongside my little haiku!
Nothing to see here
Feline sentry on duty
Keep moving along!Ritu 2016
02 Oct 2016 39 Comments
in Spidey's Serene Sundays, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: alfie, Blog, Blog Posts, Blogger, Blogging, cats and dogs, furbabies, Sonu Singh
We had a busy weekend with the kids and their various clubs, and a meet up at the ice cream parlour with Lil Man’s old classmates. This was topped off by Hubby Dearest’s cousins coming to stay for the night last night, with their darling Dog Alfie, a Blue Staff.
We have met Alfie several times, he comes with them at Christmas, but he’s only stayed over once before, and that was at my in-laws house.
Then, the in-laws were away, but my mother in law hates dogs, so the staying the night, or even having the dog over for a few hours was never going to happen.
At ours, we have Sonu Singh to think of too, as we cannot allow them to meet… there is a danger of unfortunate incidents happening, so we haven’t risked that.
Instead, we play an interesting game of musical rooms, where Sonu ends up in our room, while Alfie gets the run of downstairs, then he goes in the Kitchen, and Sonu comes out for a saunter around his pad… this happened all day!
And at night, he slept in our room with us, alongside his food and litter tray (Pee-eew!)
But let me introduce you to Alfie, who is going to be 9 on Tuesday so a grand old 63 in Dog years!
He’s an affectionate canine, with lots of affection for the kids, and a playful nature, he gave both the kids a good tongue bath!
And boy does his tail whack hard when he’s wagging it around!
He loves a ball, or tearing one apart. In fact, he tore through 3 of Lil Mans old, flat balls!
It was lovely to have him here, but so hard with having to keep our own furbaby away from him! I believe we may have another visit from them in a couple of weeks!
Bless their little furry hearts, our furbabies!
23 Sep 2016 39 Comments
in Sonu Singh, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Bugsy, Bunny, Cat, Cat face off, Cute Cat, Ginger, Rabbit, Sonu Singh
It’s been a while since Sonu Singh had a featured spot on the blog, so let me tell you what he was up to the other day…
Our next door neighbour (the one with ‘issues’) has two lovely cats, Smudge, who is an old cat, and a kitten called Ginger. They are outdoor cats, unlike our Sonu Singh, so we often see them in our garden.
The other day, Sonu Singh and Ginger had a face off!
He is a true cutie (not as cute as our Sonu Singh though, obviously!) and they stared each other out for ages! Ginger won’t run when we are watching him from inside, but if I was to go out, he runs away!
And the other furry creature?
Well, a little background first.
My neighbour has been recommended for 24-hour secure housing, along with her husband, as her problems are becoming too severe. They will be moving soon. Smudge and Ginger are moving with them too. (We’ll miss the kitties!)
Anyway, our neighbour knocked on my door last week, to ask me if we wanted a rabbit. Apparently, she had one and she can’t take it with her. Unfortunately, we can’t have it, but I reassured her I would ask around. Then she proceeded to tell me that the voices in her head were telling her to get a knife and slit her wrists… I got her back home safely, worried about her, and wondering about this mysterious bunny that was now on the scene…
The other night, Hubby Dearest popped out to the summer house in our garden to fetch a beer (special fridge back there for drinks!). He came back and called to me, “Ritu… I just went to get a beer, and was faced with a rather cute, fluffy bunny!”
Well, quick as a flash, I was down there, with a torch, and a partially clothed Lil Man, sans his pyjama bottoms, to go see the bunny. It was dark, and after a few seconds of adjustment, we saw him. A gorgeous fluff ball or grey, with a really fluffy head!
He was terrified, but after around 10 minutes I was able to get close enough to catch him, and pick him up!
The poor thing was shaking!
The obvious thing to do was take a selfie with him take him home.
Oops, my camera phone slipped and took a selfie!
Yes, he looks huge, but I think it was the angle! He was so light and felt extremely slight under all that fur!
So I took him back, and it appears that the hutch was left open in error, and the little bunny, Bugsy, as I now know him, escaped into our garden!
Hubby Dearest is having ideas… I caught his suspiciously looking at something on the iPad later that night. he hid it first (hmmm…porn?!) but then gave up the device for me to peruse… he was searching about how Cats and Rabbits could get on! Someone is clearly hoping to increase our furbaby family, but no… I had to say no! Jees, he’s such a softy!!!
I am so glad we found him, though… there are foxes around our area, and he wouldn’t have survived a night…
I shan’t share the picture of the rather large, hairy spider we found on that same night, though… that was HUGE, HAIRY and SCARY!!!!!
03 Sep 2016 108 Comments
in Family, Sonu Singh Tags: Birthday, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Cake, Sonu Singh
I’d dozed off…
Awoke with a jolt to this little box of delights!
And this!
A Jaffa Mini Roll with a cocktail umbrella because Hubby Dearest couldn’t find the candles! Bless him!
I’m off to sleep now…time wake as a real 41 year old!
25 Aug 2016 50 Comments
in Children, Family, Sonu Singh, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Buffet, Children, Family, London, O2, Overeating, Pets, Sonu Singh
As you may have seen, I have been busy on my exercise bike, this evening, pedalling away furiously, even in all this heat, as I may have overindulged a little today!
It all started quite normally.
A leisurely wake up, appreciating the last few days of the school holidays, and a late breakfast. Followed by reading of posts, and reading on my Kindle, lounging on the sofa, as you do.
Then Hubby Dearest came and asked what we wanted to do today.
While we were sorting the children’s rooms out, we hadn’t had a chance to take them anywhere fun, and the holidays are coming to a close soon enough, so we thought we could pop out for the afternoon.
The kids wanted a trip to the swimming pool, or the paddling pool out, Lil man wanted to go to the Cricket nets (a real fun family day!) but Hubby Dearest suggested visiting a Dog Home!
No, don’t get all excited, we haven’t come home with a Punjabi mutt to match Sonu Singh!
Hubby Dearest would love a dog dearly, but right now it doesn’t feel right. It would be unfair on a new pet to be settling in, and we are all back at school/work, but the children do love animals too, and they are always asking why the local pet shops don’t have cats and dogs.
We could have been sensible and found a place to visit that was in Kent, but we decided to go to Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, in London!
So after lunch, we got into the car and off we went!
It was 2pm so we had two hours to at least get there, and we aren’t far from London…but there is always traffic! And don’t forget the heat! The AC decided to choose today to play up, and even with windows down, we were hot and bothered!
Lil Man was quite excited to pass The Oval Cricket ground on the way too!
At 3.30pm we pulled into a parking space conveniently close by, and paid for an hour’s parking (£2.50! Exhorbitant!) And our little adventure began…We had around an hour to go and visit both the Cats and Dogs.
Image from Battersea Dogs and Cats Home Website
I was not allowed to take photos inside, but oh, the little faces on the animals there! I think, if we were a little softer, and had we been there a tad longer, we would have been registering ourselves as a rehoming family… and would have ended up with at least 2 dogs and 3 more cats!
The kids where in their element!
They were flabberghasted at the fact that these animals needed homes. I think it was a good life lesson, taking them there, to see that you can’t make certain decisions light heartedly. So many of these animals were left there by people who couldn’t cope… And how stressful for the pet, who is used to their home, and then ends up in a pen, with all these strangers, however nice, looking after them.
We managed to drag ourselves away from there, just about and set off home, at around 4.30pm. And the wonderful bit of technology we call the Sat Nav decided to take us on a scenic route, all the way through the Centre of London!
Past the Houses of Parliament, the Shard and some intriguing ‘men’ climbing up a wall holding instruments!
It was 6.30pm and we had only got as far as Greenwich, near the O2, due to crazy traffic, so Hubby Dearest made a good call to stop there for dinner.
So glad to be out of the sweatbox, I mean car!
We went to Jimmy World Grill and Bar. It’s a huge World Buffet restaurant with Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Mexican and American cuisine… hence the manic cycling when we got back!
That’s how much I ate… oops!
And after eating we needed to get back to our real furbaby Sonu Singh, who had been waiting at home patiently…
But I had to take this photo of the masks on display in the restaurant!
I love a good mask!
The sky was starting to get a little duller, and as we walked to the car, Lil Princess spotted the Canary Wharf skyline.. “Look, Daddy! There’s your old work!” Hubby Dearest looked over wistfully… I think even though working from home is a wonderful thing, he is missing life in London too!
(Oh, and £6 parking for 2 hours!What is it with London and crazy parking fees?!)
Canary Wharf
And now we are home, the children are asleep, possibly dreaming of new pets, and they have already mentioned going to the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home branch they ahve in Brands Hatch, closer to us, tomorrow!
But I would hate for our lil furbaby to think we are forgetting him…
Sonu Singh, we love you lots and lots, and you’ll always be our favourite kitty!
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