Thnuggles on Thursday

Thei-Chan: Everything seems to be upside down this week, somehow. We did not have an SoS post last Sunday and who knows what will happen this weekend, right? So, we decided that Thursday would be perfect for a bit of a "Thnuggle".

The Beebs has been feeling super-snuggly of late:

May I draw your attention to a certain silver-coloured tail that is wrapped around Tommy?

Anyway, Tommy and the Beebs have been snuggling a lot...

Bibi-Chan has also been snuggling with #1:

As has Tommy!

Needless to say, I have been snuggling with Tommy too!

As has Tama-Chan!

And Genji, when he's not with Tommy, snuggles ALL DAY with #1!

Sorry we don't have any snuggle pics of Vidock today. #1 is off to see him today so maybe we'll have some later.

Wow on Wednesday

Genji: Hello everyone. Gen-Chan here! #1 says thank you for all the kind comments yesterday. I spent all day giving her cuddles and so she feels much better!

With a little help from Truffle and Brulee, we finally found out who sent our Secret Paws. It's The Big Fat Ginger Cat!!!! He has a very fun blog, here. Thanks, BFGC, for a bumper crop of goodies for us kitties!

But that is not all! This year, we were inspired by our friend Khyra to take part also in Projekt Wichteln which is a gift exchange organised by our friend Sally who lives in the south of France. And our package arrived yesterday. We scored BIG TIME! Firstly, the package came from ITALY! Isn't that super cool? It was from a beautiful Briard called RAIN and it was a huge box! We opened the box but we promise not to open the actual gifts until Christmas.

Here I am, with Tommy and the box:

We opened it and look!

# says the candy is for her, but there was a package for Tommy:

A big one for us kitties:

And there was even a package for Vidock!!!

We can't wait to open everything on Christmas Day but, in the meantime, a HUGE thanks to Rain and her family!

Tama's Ticked-Off Tuesday

Tama-Chan: Dear Friends, we are TICKED-OFF! #1 returned as promised from Paris last night and guess what had happened to her? She had her wallet stolen on the metro (subway)! There are apparently organised gangs of thieves, mostly from Easterm Europe, who take advantage of the freedom of movement within the European community to come over and relieve honest people of their hard-earned cash. Believe me, if we had found those responsible, we would have shredded them! But we are here in our lovely countryside, not roaming the streets of the capital, so all we can do is offer comfort.

Manly Monday!

Tom: You are not going to believe this but #1 has gone again! Left this morning for a day in Paree. She said it was for work, and that she was going to prepare some fancy high-flying executive for his move to Japan by telling him all about how they work over there. But I bet you she is planing some shopping as well! I man, would she be human if she wasn't?! Anyway, she promised to be home this evening, and I am supervising the kitties. Fernant's people will come over to feed them and let me out for a romp or two.

The kitties have already announced that they are planning to spend the day napping. The Beebs has been practicing:

As you can see, he's a very tidy sleeper!

Unlike a certain Gen-Chan...

I shall be eagerly anticipating #1's return!

And Vidock and Big Tom will be synchronized-watching for her next visit!

Secret Sunday!

Tama-Chan: We have something a little different for you this week. Normally, we spend our Sundays here at Poupounette Central besnuggled, but today, we are befuddled! Yesterday, the man in the yellow van (La Poste does its rural deliveries in little mustard yellow vans) brought a parcel. It had La Poste tape on it so we don't know if it had torn or been inspected, but it has no return address on it and no card inside! The only thing we know is that it said "Secret Santa" on it and the postmark indicates that it comes from around Gloucester in the UK. Could this be our Secret Paws parcel? If so, we would really love to know who sent it!

In the meantime, we did open it (#1 said it was so that we could try to elucidate the mystery...) and we are a bunch of very happy kitties. Tommy, however, is sulking, having established that there was nothing there for him...

Genji was the first to check things out:

Although Sei-Chan was also on the scene pretty quickly!

Sleepyhead Bibi asked for bed delivery!

But he did eventually get up to take a closer look!

There was lots of great stuff in there...

... including a play cube, and tunnel, and crinkly balls and lots of mousies and whappy toys. THANKS!

I was of course supervising the unwrapping from above:

So, Dear Friends, we eagerly await to find out who our "Secret Santa" is!

To "wrap up" our Sunday post, we would like to show you the illustration from the December page of one of our Japanese calendars:

The caption says "If we all get together, even a little strength becomes great"! We love that thought!

Sitting and Waiting SEIturday...

Sei-Chan: First of all, thanks for all the lovely comments yesterday. It seems like the bad news just keeps on coming at the moment, so we must work extra-hard at sharing both love and strength.

I am very late in posting because #1 high-tailed it out of here quite early this morning and spent all days at horsey meetings (some people's idea of fun...). So, what was I to do?

I sat on the desk chair...

I sat in the big kennel...

And eventually, I just sat at the window...

She did eventually return but it was already DARK!

Farewell Friday - Admiral and Kai

Tama-Chan: We heard yesterday that our beautiful, sweet friend Admiral Hestorb had suddenly sailed away to the Bridge. We are still in shock as she and her Mom put on such a brave face all the way to the end. We will miss you, Dear Friend. Your posts were always so full of love and your comments always so generous and kind. Until we meet again...

We hope you don't mind us borrowing a photo of you.

Today, we would also like to say farewell to another friend, a magnificent woofie called KAI. He belonged to Dr. C who looks after us all with such caring and kindness. #1 says she will never forget the first time she set eyes on him. She loved those eyes. Kai was a Sarloos Wolfhound, a breed created in the Netherlands in the 1930s by crossing German shepherds and wolves. He was utterly gentle despite his very imposing stature:

We can imagine how much his sister Saka (on the right in the photo below), and Dr.C and her family will miss him.