The escapologist

As so often is the way here, we plan a particular day and then discover that we need to re-adjust our plans as the day progresses. So we have not achieved very much at all. And there has been the small issue of the missing cat!

Yesterday afternoon I was aware that Choupi was moving around upstairs. We were keeping out of his way in order that he had the opportunity to settle. However towards the end of the evening we realised that we could no longer see him. We had a good look around but my other half thought that he had gone behind some boarding. We decided to leave him for the night and see whether he would come out by the morning.

This morning we had to be out quite early because we both had GP appointments. So whilst we had a quick look for Choupi we knew we would have to leave him until later. He had food, water and a litter tray so we knew that he could come to no harm. So we set off. We thought that we’d be back shortly after 10am. How wrong could we be?

I have had various problems since I had had my inoculation last week. This was the reason that I was seeing the GP. Since Sunday I have had a pain in my groin which has been getting worse so I needed to have it checked. The GP decided that my leg needed scanning and that I needed a blood test and both needed doing today. Whilst they don’t book it for you she gave me three alternatives to ring for the scan and told me that I could walk into a centre and get the blood test. Thankfully I don’t have a thrombosis I have a swollen lymph node. Apparently this is almost certainly my body reacting to the vaccine. Whilst I have had a quite a few reactions to the jab, I’m still relieved that I have had it.

So when we came home we started a serious search for the cat. We couldn’t find him. We started to wonder whether there were holes in our house that we weren’t aware of. We went outside and surveyed our house. No, no holes. So back inside we continued searching for our little Houdini. I was in one room when I heard my husband make a noise as though he was in pain. I ran to find out what he had done. ‘I’ve found the cat’ he said. So Choupi has found a space under the floor in the room that he is in. My husband had put his hand into the void to see whether there was anything there and it seems that there was. He bit and drew blood! Unfortunately he still wants to be under the floorboards. We have put food and water where he can reach it and hope that he will decide to come out soon!

I hope your day has been more productive than mine. Do let me know what you have been doing and whether your plans have had to change for reasons beyond your control?