We’ve finally finished creating a safe outside space for our cats. There’s a cat flap from the cat/kitten room going to a meshed off space at the back of the house. This can be used by kittens too. With a big jump (too high for kittens) the adults can reach a contained walkway over the patio and down into a sectioned-off piece of our garden. Loads of bushes to explore and hide in and plenty of shady spots for a sunny day’s snoozing.
The cats have unpacked their toy mice and found their favourite beds in our new house. We’ve moved to a mid-Bedfordshire village, just ten miles up the road from where we were before. The cats all settled in really quickly once they realised that food, water, beds and cuddles were as before, just in different surroundings :-)
Kolo doesn’t venture very far outside, though we were sure he’d be disappearing for ages to the neighbouring stud farm. The weather’s probably got a lot to do with it though and maybe he’ll explore the fields more once summer comes. We were worried how Purdy, our old girl, her eyesight failing, would settle, but she’s amazed us all and even taken to using the litter tray instead of braving the elements.
As for the Ocis, they just want to explore every corner and help us unpack. The boxes and bubb
le wrap brought them endless fun, as far as they’re concerned we can move again if it means more boxes to play in!
Now we’re settled we’ve taken Lexi to visit a new boyfriend. He’s a very handsome tawny Ocicat Classic and we’re looking forward to a Classic litter being born in January.
Fizz is looking swell! We’re expecting her happy event by the end of the week. Difficult to tell if she’s bigger than last time. I think she is, though that could be down to it being her second pregnancy rather than there 
being more kittens.
It was very warm during this stage of her pregnancy last time and she was sleeping a lot. This time she’s far more fidgety and awake, really quite restless. I think we’ll both be glad when the kittens have arrived and we can all get some sleep 
It’s been a pleasure to see Lexi and Fizz out in the specially built enclosure enjoying the recent warm weather, chasing flies and watching the birds. Graham made it as a lean-to on our shed using mostly old pieces of wood we 
already had and wire meshing. It’s in a nice shady part of the garden though it gets a little sun in the odd corner so they can choose to the sit in the sun or the shade. We’ve put walkways round 2 sides and a nice sturdy tree branch leading up to it for scratching on or climbing and part of a wooden bench we no longer wanted in the garden offers more sitting and watching or hide and seek places. At least when we’re in the garden enjoying the weather, they can be near us and see what we’re doing. It’s not as good as allowing them the freedom of an enclosed garden but our garden would be very difficult to make totally enclosed without chopping down a lot of mature shrubs, so it’s the next best thing. As it’s down the far end of the garden we pop the cats into a carrier to take them down there. Though now they know what’s coming I only have to fetch the carrier and open the lid and they jump straight in! Once we’ve sorted out the shed and made it safe we’ll put a cat flap on so they can explore that too.