Roland is Introduced to the House

We decided that it was time for Roland to be introduced to the house. He has been introduced slowly to all of the other animals – without any problems – so we felt that he was confident enough to come into the house. It took a few tries, as, while we had decided that he should explore, he had correspondingly decided that his all-time favorite place is the sofa in my workshop. However, once he realized that there was a sofa in the house, he seemed a lot happier in his new surroundings. We had wondered if feeding him might be a problem, as we cannot feed the cats on the ground as the dogs help them with their food! Instead the cats are fed on the cat tree (and even then, Bob and Tinkerbelle both try to climb the tree!). We picked Roland up and put him on the cat tree a few times, however he soon got the idea of things and now happily climbs the tree when he is hungry.

He is still quite nervous, but is getting increasingly confident. He and Pirata play a lot. I did think that we ought to put some of the bells that Ian refused to wear when we got Pirata onto a collar for Pirata and Roland, as they quite often ‘look’ for each other, and can’t find each other even though they are just feet apart.

It rained heavily at the weekend – a shame as it was first communion and the children would have been celebrating their first communion at outdoor altars in the village. With the girls in their little white dresses and the boys dressed as navy captains. We would have gone to watch, however I didn’t now what the contingency plans were. I bought the ones in my class who were celebrating this year an english / spanish dictionary. This was good as it formed the basis for half a class as I showed them how to look for words. I then gave them a task of looking for some words for the other members of the class to translate. True to form, the girl was looking for ‘butterfly’ and ‘tiara’, while the boy was looking for as many gruesome and bad words as he could find.