15/5/23

Gosh, I have already written a huge paragraph then it vanished.......pooooffed gone. So now I have to start again. 

The mistress had another sleep-in today. She is on a go slow at walking and having a day at home. She has caught up on some phone calls in and out. One of them was from a lady on her family tree on her mother's side. It's her grandmother's family where back in the 1800's some Chinese settlers had mixed marriages and her grandmother's father was Chinese but her mother European. Jeepers that's complicated for a mere Gnome. Anyway, they are going to catch up next week.

Now one of my mates sits in a swing above the mistress's chair. Usually, he swings himself to sleep and misses all the things going on around here, and today I saw the mistress working on those children's stories. I was trying to see where she put the book when she had finished, but there are a lot of c/d's stacked around me making my view almost impossible. I wanted the twit on the swing to keep a lookout for me, but as usual, when she leaves the room, he is asleep and didn't see. Jeepers he is useless. There are some others behind her on the shelf window. I shall have to get them to watch. 

Oh, heck she has just pulled the curtains, so it is impossible now. Bother, what the heck am I going to do now? I shall have to think about this. Who changed the size of the above paragraph? Gremlins in the system.

The mistress went out for a short time tonight and so a mad scramble hearing the garage door open. We hardly had time to get off our perch and check the coast is was clear. I couldn't even move the stack of c/d's to clear my view. Looks like we will wait until she is asleep tonight.

It's a busy life being a Gnome. We spend our days and nights watching our backs.