All Change

Basil and Saffy have had a pretty tough year. We've had a new kitchen and new bathroom installed, Both of which involved colossal amounts of noise and dust with walls being knocked down etc. They enjoyed this as much as you expect 2 felines might.

Then just when things had settled down again, this joker turned up:

Basil and Saffy were profoundly unimpressed. After a series of serious chats with us about our lifestyle choices...

Basil has come to accept the new addition, and has even helped with babysitting:

Saffy initially went with the 'ignore it and it will go away' approach, determinedly sleeping through the late night crying sessions:

But then curiosity got the better of her and she has even reluctantly offered to babysit too (in a recalcitrant teenage sort of way):

And now we're one big happy (noisy) family:

Basil's QC Service

For those that don't know, we're expecting a baby soon. Actually, she's 5 days overdue now, so make that very soon.

Basil has kindly offered us a full QC service for all of the baby related paraphernalia we have bought. Here he is delivering his review of the Joolz Day Pram...

He found it very comfortable...

And spacious... 

Basil was most keen to demonstrate his ability to get into the carrycot, regardless of how many barriers to entry we attempted to place in his way. Not sure how this is going to go once there's actually a baby in there... 

That other cat with an even stupider face than Basil is called Becky. She's new.

(Un)Comfy

Basil is very talented at seeking out the most comfortable places in the house to sleep...

Saffy, uh, isn't...

She does allow herself a little sit down whilst eating dinner though, so she does cut herself some slack occasionally...

HotDogCat

Today, Basil is... HotDogCat! The worst superhero of all time.

Fluffy and Dirty

... That's what Saffy is. Fluffy, and dirty. Look at the state of her paws

Disgraceful.

Basil on the other hand is just majestic, as usual:

I've not taken many pics of them at all lately. We're having some major (incredibly noisy) work done on our kitchen, so they're absented themselves somewhat of late.

Normal (ie. slightly less lax service will resume next month).

Bedtime with Basil and Saffy

After a hard day's relaxing...

Basil and Saffy decide it's time to go to bed. The most important thing is to take up all of the space before the humans can get in.

Before bed, Basil likes to tell stories from his day.

Saffy listens intently to these...

But what she really wants to do is tell ghost stories! She preps the lighting...

Basil doesn't like ghost stories, he gets scared easily.

And has to get under his comfort blanket.

Saffy despairs of Basil's scaredy-cat ways and says he is a loser. She sulks and tells ghost stories to herself instead.

Boys will be Boys

Generally speaking, Basil is as good as gold. Never scratches or bites or anything like that. Around me at least. Sam Boy on the other hand loves getting him all over excited, and then acts surprised when he gets attacked...

Most of the time Basil is a very good boy though, helping with brainstorming...

Opening the post...

And helping with, umm, sleeping and things...

This is Saffy's reaction when asked to help around the house...

Ungrateful little Miss. She says she's far too busy being pretty...