We did have help staying up last night. We were pretty sure that other humans, or quite possibly othe NZ life-forms with an axe to grind against “Cat” were trying to kill it last night. There were all sorts of bangs, whistles and flashes breaking through the darkness around us. We let it stay with us until the gun-toting, explosions and noise-making had died down a bit…………….and the danger had passed…………..

Much more sleep had all round last night, although not quite a “proper night’s sleep” if you know what I mean.

The NZ life-form “Cat” obviously empathises with humans, it now looks in through the door at us, looks at the door handle and looks back at us…………. or perhaps it was because we may have saved it from an all-out assassination attempt last night! When let in, it nows jumps up on us and accepts a bit of a smoothing. We thought it was also trying to contact other members of its species when it started this really strange harmonious rattling sound, but having looked it up on Google, I’m fairly sure its what is called “purring”.

We had a really nice quiet day today, feet up, reading, watching TV, drinking and catching up with people as the New Year worked it’s way around the rest of the world. We did pop out for a short while, but only to get some pizza from Dominoes. There’s lazy we are!