It rained again yesterday evening but at least we got to see Jaffa. She has taken to living in the garage roof now and so we don't actually see her unless she is passing through the garden.
The summer has been rubbish for three reasons, the weather, Rose has started self-harming and 2 of my friends have been killed by traffic. Basil was the first as you know. Coco was second and we think that Jaffa might be living in the garage roof in the hope that she will turn up at some point.
Just after Lexie died (which was a couple of months before I moved in), Basil apparently took over her job of annoying the slaves when they were eating tea on their lap watching telly. He used to jump up between them and try to poke his nose onto one of their plates and ended up with his tail in the other! He was a class act. He was also very good at playing with shoe laces as the slaves were trying to tie them up - on more than one occasion, he succeeded in undoing the laces that had been tied. String was one of his things though. Rose said that her youngster, Pip, was a bit of a string thug. She used to spoil it for Fizz when she was chasing string on the rug. But Basil was bad too. Whoever was enjoying a string chase was always pushed out by Basil if he was around.
He had a great technique when he wanted food, he would wrap himself round a slave's feet until he got some Bozita or some biccies. The rest of us are a bit shy of doing that because of the possibility of being trodden on. Basil seemed oblivious to that.
Next time, I will tell you a bit about Coco.
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