There has been a war going on in our apartment over the last few days - I think Gai and Lugs have now decided to call a truce - They are no lo
nger hissing, spitting and fighting with each other but......Gai has taught lugs to bite and lugs has taught Gai how to launch himself into mid air and then attach himself to my legs (You can play join the scratches on my legs!!......they are a pair of wee buggers!!
Oh, and Lugs miaows........all the time......he miaows when he eats, he miaows when your playing with him, he miaows when he's standing in the middle of the room, he even miaows in his bloody sleep and, if you ignore him, he climbs onto your shoulder and miaows in your ear - at this rate he is going to become a kebab!! (Actually he's no-where near as bad as he was but I still know exactly where he is.......miaow miaow miaow)
THEN he managed to disable my internet access after taking a flying leap onto my lap and then onto my laptop!! (and just in case your wondering......Bangkok cats genetically have no tail...well, they do but it's just a wee curly stump!!) When I tried to check my e-mails the laptop wouldn't acknowledge our wireless connection (actually it wouldn't acknowledge any of the wireless connections in the entire building!!)......the screen, very helpfully, suggested that I check to see if the wireless switch was on (There's a wireless switch!!!) but didn't tell me wher
e the bloody thing was so I spent the next day and a half trying to work out how to switch the bloody thing back on!! (I even had the computer upside down looking for the switch (honestly......if there are any computer programmers out there......either give all the information or no information......giving half just drives people daft am I am IT literate!!) - You can tell this is still a slightly sore point can't you!!). Anyway, I managed to switch it back on again - and was ridiculously pleased with myself!!
If you ever have this problem press the function key (Which is at the bottom of your keyboard on the left hand side next to your Ctrl key) along with F2 (top left - 3rd key in)
So.....here are a couple of pictures of Gai when we first got him....he really did look like a plucked chicken didn't he
There has been a war going on in our apartment over the last few days - I think Gai and Lugs have now decided to call a truce - They are no lo
nger hissing, spitting and fighting with each other but......Gai has taught lugs to bite and lugs has taught Gai how to launch himself into mid air and then attach himself to my legs (You can play join the scratches on my legs!!......they are a pair of wee buggers!!
Oh, and Lugs miaows........all the time......he miaows when he eats, he miaows when your playing with him, he miaows when he's standing in the middle of the room, he even miaows in his bloody sleep and, if you ignore him, he climbs onto your shoulder and miaows in your ear - at this rate he is going to become a kebab!! (Actually he's no-where near as bad as he was but I still know exactly where he is.......miaow miaow miaow)
THEN he managed to disable my internet access after taking a flying leap onto my lap and then onto my laptop!! (and just in case your wondering......Bangkok cats genetically have no tail...well, they do but it's just a wee curly stump!!) When I tried to check my e-mails the laptop wouldn't acknowledge our wireless connection (actually it wouldn't acknowledge any of the wireless connections in the entire building!!)......the screen, very helpfully, suggested that I check to see if the wireless switch was on (There's a wireless switch!!!) but didn't tell me wher
e the bloody thing was so I spent the next day and a half trying to work out how to switch the bloody thing back on!! (I even had the computer upside down looking for the switch (honestly......if there are any computer programmers out there......either give all the information or no information......giving half just drives people daft am I am IT literate!!) - You can tell this is still a slightly sore point can't you!!). Anyway, I managed to switch it back on again - and was ridiculously pleased with myself!!
Where we met up and stayed overnight with Tom who is now the proud owner of an apartment in London and two cats!! (No, he's not that bright because yes, he's still allergic to cats!!). He showed us round his new apartment which is lovely - he's had the kitchen done (which looks great) and the living room and is
taking his time with the rest of the place but it's looking fab!! This is Tom and I out in his garden (I love this photo - not sure if it very flattering to either of us but I love it anyway!!). Tom showed 
us round Croyden and we went along to his local for a few drinks (Sat out in the beer garden in the sunshine and fresh air) and then had dinner. It was fantastic - not your usual pub grub at all (I had venison with big chunky chips and a pepper sauce....I can't remember the last time I had venison!! The photo on the left is Tom trying to persuade Chris to give him some of his Cheese and Biscuits....it didn't work!!) then we went back to Tom's, drank copious amounts of red wine and listened to music till the wee small hours. The
following day we went into Central Croydon and bought sausages, burgers, minted lamb sticks, humous and pitta bread and then went back to Tom's and christened his barbecue (we bought waaay to much food as is our want so we left him with a fridge full!!). He came with us to the airport to see us off.....we were both really sad to be leaving but he assured us that he would be coming to visit us in January (which made me feel slightly better but didn't stop me crying when we left!!)
