Little Thieves! That is what my Berries (and their mother) are! This morning, I thought I would have some late breakfast and I got myself some mackerel on toast. I was sitting at the desk, about to eat it, when I went into the kitchen for something, very stupidly leaving it on the work surface. When I came back from the kitchen, Sambuca had stolen part of the toast and it was now on the floor. Loganberry and Blackberry both saw what their mum had, went tearing over and Loganberry kept smacking her mum on the head until Sambuca was forced to share her prize with her daughters. Each Berry took a piece from them mum, went to separate parts of the room and ate it. Blackberry was really funny because she took hers under the work surface and sat there eating it and growling at the same time in case someone wanted to steal her prize from her. Sambuca unfortunately is calling yet again which makes sitting here working rather difficult at times.

For the first time ever it was Blackberry's turn to get into trouble off her mum. After the Berries and Sambuca had eaten breakfast, I opened up the back door leading out into the cat run. Everything was wet outside due to the rain we'd had overnight and I got a shock when 10 minutes later, both Berries were outside playing games in the cat run. Their mother was not impressed at all and she swore at Loganberry who decided to listen to her mum for once and she came running inside. Blackberry on the other hand had no intentions of stopping her outside games and it was so funny to watch Blackberry tearing around the cat run with Sambuca right on her heels, telling her off in no uncertain terms. They got to the small tree stump and Blackberry was trying to stuff her little fat body under there but wasn't quick enough as Sambuca picked up by the scruff of the neck, or tried to as Blackberry is too heavy for that now, and Sambuca managed to drag her partially over the log whilst swearing at her at the same time which is no mean feat. She then chased her back inside and stood at the door, refusing to let anyone pass.

There's not really a great deal to say about our Berries today as they have spent most of the day curled up sleeping, either on the pink blanket, or on top of me! It's been really difficult to get the entries done today as both of them, as well as Sambuca are currently on my lap and Loganberry keeps popping her head up onto the desk to help me type. I think this is the first morning that I have come downstairs to find that everything on my desk was still in tact and there was nothing on the floor. Mind you, at 9am, Loganberry decided to climb into my stationary tray and knock all the paperclips out onto the desk and the floor.

I am finding it difficult to believe that we have now reached the 7 weeks of age stage of our Berries lives and both babies are doing incredibly well. However.............I was not impressed with the mess that greeted me this morning when I first came down to the back room. All I can figure out is that they were annoyed at being told they were too young to go to the party the other night and obviously chose to have one of their own! Apart from being greeted by the mess, the first thing I noticed was that neither Berry, nor mother could be seen. They ALWAYS sleep on their beds on the tubs but they weren't there this morning but I soon found them curled up with their mum sleeping on my office chair and I do not know at all how they managed to get on there. Sambuca wouldn't have picked them up because the Berries, particularly Loganberry are way too large and heavy for Sami to carry around yet I can't see that they could have just jumped from the floor to the chair because they aren't big enough yet so I am at a total loss and would love to know the answer to this little mystery. Now getting back to the mess, they had obviously spent half the night exploring my work surface because the paperwork that was on the surface the night before was all over the floor this morning, along with a half empty food bowl, because there was JW kitten biscuits from one end of the room to the other, to say nothing of toys, an upturned wastepaper bin with everything all over the floor. On any other day, I wouldn't have cared but as I knew that Whispa was definitely leaving today, I had a huge rush to get everything ready for her departure. I'm hoping that come tomorrow, things will settle down a bit in our house as the next baby doesn't leave until next week so with a bit of luck, the diary entries can go back to normal, complete with photos!