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Our favourite restaurant which has the nickname "That Polish Place". The sun was so strong and the windows so clean, you could see the houses opposite reflected.

Maman et chaton

They say I'm a cat
I'm not sure about that


My paws have a life of their own
My body is slim,
But my how my back legs have grown!

Sleeping and snoozing on Saturday
They say its a sin

But us Kangaroo kittens are rebels
And that's why my name is Roo-Pin

Hidden Extras

Yesterday this sign appeared at the end of the street where I work.
There were no Hobbits or blue Avatar type creatures in the local pub, but there were some excited tourists rubber-necking from air conditioned coaches.
It was very tempting to run down the street screaming in some incomprehensible language and pretend I was part of the movie shot......

Mouse in the library

Ruppin protects the library from blue mice with grey silk tails.

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Doer Upper
Greytown, Wairarapa

A day in the life of Ruppin

Learning to do laundry

Learning to be a reindeer

Learning to pose

It all started with a walk in the Botanical gardens

.....and an advertisement in the holiday newspaper. Today the SPCA was overflowing with cats, kittens and desperately needed foster homes and adoptions - we read the advert over coffee. An hour later we were the proud owners of this little boy. He was named Tank (you should see the size of his paws). We have renamed him Ruppin (after Arthur and Ilya Rupin my favourite artist). The Queen of Spice is not happy and hissed at him, the Gentleman of the house was terrified (yet again - you would think he would learn that 2kgs of fluff is not a big challenge when you are 7 kgs and could sit on it!).

It will be an interesting few days. Ruppin has eaten half a teaspoon of cottage cheese and has already attempted to shin up the Austrian curtains in the spare bedroom. Mercifully we have old furniture.....

A walk in the park

Colours and textures at Wellington Botanical Gardens, and a sleepy duck's back.

Cat names

Borrowed the idea from "The Defective Yeti" blog. As we all know, cats have more than one name. Otto is our "almost 12" 7kg, soft and gentle tomcat, Cumin is his 2 year old female charge.

Name	Otto	Cumin
Secret Actual Name	Pud	Bagele
Name According To Otto	Blank	Redheads have more fun
Prior Name	Terence	Unknown
Generic Nickname	Boykie	Twinkle / Chippy/ Niblet
Nickname When Bad	He’s never bad	Jaeger Meisie
Nickname when stretched across sofa	Panda draught excluder	Sausage roll
Nickname When dozing	Buddha	Baby
Nickname fluffed up and territorial	Ottopuss Maximus	Bottle brush
Nickname when walking on us in bed at 4:00 AM	Elephant cat	Prancer
Nickname Reflecting How Cat Came To Be In Our Possession	Latte stealer	Con artist

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Recently I had a few slides put onto CDs from the days I lived in Central Europe. This was taken in Znojmo in the Czech Republic (a fantastic town with amazing restaurants and artisan craftsmen). I don't know who lived in this house, I can only guess it is someone who made armour. Any other suggestions?

Elements

New favourite restaurant, Elements in Lyall Bay. We celebrated a friend's 50th there last night and the food was superb.