Day 435: Just read my last post, HAHAHA

"This time next month we'll be close to moving house"...

Hahaha, cancel that! We're moving a week on Friday! YIKES!

Anyway, reason for my post is this. Friday night ("Remember, remember, the 5th of November") was bonfire night in the UK. Aka Fireworks night. I work in a school and asked a group of 6 & 7 year olds if they knew any other names - Diwali came up but only 1 child knew it was actually "Guy Fawkes Night". Go back a few hundred years to 1605 and Catholic Guy Fawkes was one of the conspirators in "the gunpowder plot" trying to blow up the Protestant King (James Stuart, successor to Elizabeth Tudor I) at the opening of Parliament. They were caught red handed and either died or were executed for treason. I wonder if Guy Fawkes Night is to celebrate the fact that he was caught - or to celebrate his attempt to rewrite the history books!

Anyway, I digress. Back to chickens. Fireworks go off from Halloween the week before (sadly, Halloween seems to be merging with Guy Fawkes night as the early winter celebration) to the Sunday after. About 5:30pm every day for the last week (today will be my last day), I've been shutting the girls in the Cube and closing the door - hoping to keep the noise of the fireworks out and let the girls sleep overnight in peace. But it means I've been going outside at 6am in my dressing down to open the door. This morning, it was 5am and they were sound asleep hehe.

Which got me thinking about their daily routine. Get up, eat, drink, poo, lay eggs, play on perches, sunbathe, dustbathe, pester me when I get home for corn/mealworms/playtime free ranging in the garden, eat more, corn for supper, bed.

(Woo hoo 5 warm eggs this morning so the fireworks can't be bothering them too much!)

I was thinking of doing a "cat" blog but honestly, every day would be the same: "get up, eat, go outside for morning patrol/loo, come back in, eat, go to human bedroom, hop up on bed, sleep all day, she comes home, get up, eat, go to bed on armchair in lounge, human getting ready for bed, get up, eat, go to human bedroom, try really hard to keep her awake all night by stamping on pillow/her hair a lot or purring in her ear. Repeat".

So I don't think I'll bother! Maybe I will though, when we move house...??? We're thinking of banning them from the bedroom! But mainly because we don't want muddy footprints on our new carpets.