Jim the neighbour cat came to visit me yesterday. I spotted him at the end of the garden and I opened the door and said, ‘Jim!’ and he ran up to me and came right in. We chatted and petted for a while. I got a better bit of wool for him to play with, he even went straight to the stairs to play since that’s where we played before.

He had a sniff and nibble of our Christmas tree. He went to the door and put his paw on the glass because he was curious about the other cat [his reflection]. He asked to leave and I opened the door for him. He put one paw in the snow and changed his mind. He went back to the door two more times and couldn’t figure out the snow. Finally, he spotted a path right next to the house and he left that way.

Weasel and I went to town today [fun!] and while we were looking for Christmas day game prizes we found a little stocking full of kitty toys. It was only a pound so we bought it. I’m excited to show it to Jim.

I’ve been baking for the last two days. I made five different sorts of cookies [Sugar Puffs, Raisin Oatmeal, Snickerdoodles, Ginger Nuts and Oreo Truffles]. I adore my KitchenAid mixer. The more I use it the more I love it. I fucked up my back in the process, but I loved it. I got six lovely foil display trays and filled them up. Weasel and I took one next door this morning and we exchanged best wishes for the season and chatted about Jim [he came out to say hi]. I have three trays for my doctors’ offices. one for Doodle to share with his colleagues and one for the family on Christmas day. I loved doing all this baking!

Town was a treat. Weasel wanted to go back to the central library and I needed to get six little toys for pass the parcel etc. Last Thursday night we had a great pile of snow dumped on our fair city. We finally decided to get a taxi into the city with my wheelchair in the back. Weasel pushed me around for hours. We went to pound shops, Christmas shops, book shops, department stores and the library. We went home the long way with her pushing still so I could have pizza. She did get some raspberry beers for her trouble. It was incredibly cold, but very nice in the sunshine. We met four German Lion Dogs [who looked much like this!] too. I was petting one and praising him [as I do] and he put a paw on my wheelchair trying to get me to move my hand down to his chest. I couldn’t reach though so he just left it there.

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