Unlike some folks, I like an uninvited guest. It says people are comfortable enough to drop in on you and head home again if the timing is not good. At just under my alloted year at the cottage and we have started recieving our first uninvited guests.The only downside it that with a number of large downstairs windows, one must make sure that pyjamas and other 'homely' clothes are decent at all times. Naked Tuesdays is clearly best kept for city living. My fasle assumption that I would be safe upstairs gathering clothing slowly between brushing toddlers teeth,changing nappies,packing lunches etc was further thwarted by the sporadic visits from the window clearner. He seems to have adopted a stealth approach to ladder work which must surley have its downsides as well as benifits for the man.
Our second, less popular, Uninvited Guest is 'Bitey Cat'. Bitey Cat is a bully who had taken to chasing our nice but dim moggy about the garden. It seems that my water pistoling and throwing of pots(the light plastic ones) and pegs has been a lame attempt to frighten it off. All too frequently we have heard hissing and spitting downstairs in the night to find a stand off taking place. Moreover, Bitey Cat appears so at home, he has made a bed in Mr A's Tramp Coat, where he sleeps every night and during rainy spells by the back door. On further investigation it appears Bitey was owned by the lady at the top of the road and then passed onto our neighbours after the one owner flattened the other's original pet. In this case I can't help feeling a bit sorry for Bitey. Mayhaps I should see him more as an LAC (looked after cat) and consider his needs-no wonder he has affection and freidnship issues if his life has been handed from home to home. Still, I'm not sure I have the patience or skill to be an effective foster mother to a delinquent feline. Maybe I should invest in that super soaker after all......
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