Purring - much the same as snoring really

Be careful of what you wish for in case you get it. I variously wished for the cats to sleep on the bed and to stop oversleeping and I got both but not in the way I hoped.

I've already written about being forced over the edge of the bed. The cats also wake and experience a burst of the crazies just before 6 each morning. There then followed a period when I would wake up and find I was doing the splits with both cats wedged in between my legs (on top of the cover mind you). Rosa then decided to spurn the bed entirely which kept me awake wondering where she'd got to.

Mits on the other hand now insists on sleeping under the covers which would be nice if only she'd stay there. But she likes to go for a potter every 30 minutes before coming back. Because she can't lift the covers herself she wakes me by whacking me with extended claws to ask to be let back in. Round about the fifth time of that last night I ripped something in my shoulder stretching to lift the cover and can now barely move my arm.

Plus the purring... I'm glad she's happy but it's hard to sleep through. Unlike Rosa whose purr is low pitched and even, Mits actually pronounces the 'p' in purr. Each in breath is a gasp, each out breath strangely plosive. It's as if rather than purring, she's repeating, "Oh Purr! Oh Purr! Oh Purr!"

You'd think they'd make it a different colour

Hmm, now why's there a pellet of cat food lying about on the carpet in the office?

*Picks up with bare hand*.

Scream - that ain't no cat food.