Desperately Seeking Sustenance
My boys (nee babies) have been on hunger strike for over 3 weeks now, which means I get most of their dinner. Great when it involves ham, chicken or big meatballs. Start fobbing me off with pasta twirls with mascarpone & tomato stir-in sauce and peas, or M&S Chicken Teddies in Breadcrumbs (I love teddies - why would I want to eat them?), or Nice Rice with Chicken (nice rice, small chicken), and I feel sad. My belly feels all rumbly and uncomfortable, and I’m not sated. A dog needs his protein, and it is for this reason, ladies and gentlemen, that a couple of balmy evenings ago, whilst my mas dined al fresco on their fluffy herby rice with la de dish of mullarkey whatsits, I stuck my face into the shrub border and scoffed a couple of cat poos. Mmmm, nice and rich and full of iron - just what I needed, and nicely grilled too. Drinky Ma didn’t care much as she has a cold and therefore her senses aren’t working as they should, but Cooky Ma’s cod in coconut milk, lime & coriander broth apparently lost its appeal around the time my little faecal snack let out a soft crunch as I bit into it.
More importantly, I’ve found my way back onto the Facebook. Well, I have some spare time, and frankly it’s the only way I can communicate with my mas at the mo. Stupid Scrabulous, silly Scramble, wretched WordTwist. Smelly CubeCrash. Even my granny has joined this social fast food restaurant. She got a laptop and some wireless internets for her birthday, and suddenly she’s unstoppable - she’s having her turn at Scrabulous every three weeks! My grandpa says he’s worried about how much the blinky lights on the router cost him, however, so he switches it off at the mains every night*. It’s playing havoc with Granny’s wireless connections.
Anyway, I’m off to see what the cats have left today (it’s going to be soggy due to the rain, but who cares). x
* I secretly think Grandpa’s switching the router off as he’s a tinsy bit jealous that the broadband signal doesn’t quite reach as far as his garage den, and so he’s still on dial-up.