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The Otis Files. Otis, I Notice 2
Otis, I notice Is lumbered with greed She never has learned That there’s time between feeds She’ll sit round and meow Like a beggar instead And pretend to my friends That she never gets fed It’s not...
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The Otis Files. Otis, I Notice 3
Otis, I noticed Was washing her paw When Burma sneaked over (The cat from next door) She watched as he slunk by Her eyes growing round Her fur rose in hackles She leapt to the ground Then Otis stood up...
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The Otis Files. Otis, I Notice 4
Otis, I notice Is quite into bugs She’ll chase after wetas And follow the slugs She’ll poke at their feelers With tentative paws And sniff at the slime trails Crossing the floors The wetas will poke...
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The Otis Files. Otis, I Notice 5
Otis, I notice Likes a good laugh And acts like a kitten When I’m in the bath She crouches in secret Awaiting her prey And takes swipes at me When I’m turned away She only does this When I don’t know...
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The Otis Files. Otis, I Notice 6
Otis, I notice Likes to be clean But you’ll never see her In a washing machine She uses her tongue To comb out her fur It’s got brushy bits on For getting out burrs Sometimes when she’s washing She’ll...
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The Otis Files. Otis, I Notice 7
Otis, I notice Likes sleeping on beds And sometimes enjoys Curling up by my head She’ll come in the dark hours And prod me to show It’s time to move over And share my pillow She’ll tap me quite gently...
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The Otis Files. Otis – The Final Tail. Or Not…
Otis finally left us at the age of 16. Apparently in her last two weeks she would go and visit some people around the corner who had two huge dogs and several cats. They told us that she would walk up...
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Lizard Queen of Navarac – (Contains Lizards).
Tiny house living has its idiosyncracys. Such as being stuck inside a small space during very bad weather. A couple of winters back I had the dubious pleasure of experiencing this while it rained for...
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And Now For a Bit of Culchure, New Zealand-Style. A Little Blues Song Wot I...
I have come to realise that I’ve been disgustingly inactive on my blog recently. You can’t blame me though – it’s midsummer here in New Zealand and there are many things to do other than sit at one’s...
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Ode to Spring (and Beeish Bums)
Spring has sprung and beeish bums Are humming in the trees It’s luverly the blossoms are Oh wait, I have to sneeze I love to see the fuzzy bees All celebrating pollen Though having an ongoing sneeze...
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