The Only Englishman In The Village: 2014-11-30

THEY FOUND HIM!

Hey Guys, and welcome to my blog update. Again just a short one but felt I needed to record this. Around three months ago, a cat had kittens in our garden. Little did we know that one would be left behind. Jitka's brother was doing his home duty of feeding the chickens and it was then when he stumbled across this neglected kitten crawling around the pen. It was from there on in that Jitka and her brother took care of this little smasher.

They both decided to keep the kitten but only if the mother didn't come back for him and that he was purely an outdoor cat. So as the weeks went on, the mother never came back and we knew that he was our pet.

Unfortunately around two weeks ago he decided to go his own way and leave his little home. But Jitka couldn't help worry about his safety, so she tried asking all of the neighbor's if they had seen him, posted a comment on the village page through Facebook, asked the local Zoo if they had any kittens handed in and finally asked the pet detective if they had any news. It's fair to say that we just wanted to make sure he was safe.

This morning we received a phone call from the Zoo, a kitten had been spotted which matched the description and was captured for safety. Five minutes later he was returned to us. It was then that the lovely lady told us that he didn't go his own way but was stolen along with many other kittens. The person who stole him is known for his animal cruelty and it literally was a case of them taking the kitten away from him. So we took him to the vet and were assured that he is OK.

We were extremely lucky to be re-united with him and he just needs a little bit of looking after as he was clearly traumatized from where he came from. And from now on in, he will be accompanying Jack as another indoor cat.

Jitka has yet to come up with a name, so he is called Mr X at the moment. This now calculates to six pets which does not include the other collection my parents in law have. We definitely have our hands full!

Oh and the two parrots downstairs are sitting on two eggs.......

Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope to see you again. It's a sad story but with a good ending and it has been a good day.

There will be a Prague update on Monday as we are going on Sunday.

Bye for now.

Mr X playing with Mia

IT'S SNOWING!

Hey Guys, unfortunately we didn't make it to Prague on Sunday because, well, we were basically too lazy to go! So we are going this week sometime instead as we need to get all of our pressies and want to see the Old Town Square. But today it's snowing!! It's not a Blizzard (well in England people may call it a "Blizzard") but I'm sure it will pick up very soon.

Max must be in a very good mood today as he allowed me to stay in bed until 8am, which means he slept for almost eleven hours. It's like he knew something magical was happening outside. As I dragged myself out of bed we immediately noticed the weather had changed for the better.

Before we moved to Czech I was really looking forward to the winter, solely because of the amount of snow they receive. I definitely prefer the cold and icy weather compared to the hot and sticky. With Mia, this is only the second time she has experienced this type of weather and I remember that she absolutely loved it! She was jumping around head first and kept herself busy chasing her own tail. It's a shame she doesn't understand what yellow snow is (hehe).

I think Max is probably too young to appreciate it at the moment, but I seriously can't wait until he is old enough so we can build a snowman together and, of course, have snowball fights. Jitka is also very excited as this means the mountains will be perfect for snowboarding. I for sure will not be going as I do not want a repeat of what happened last time.

For those of you that know me have probably heard this story a thousand times, so I will tell it one last time. I decided to go skiing with Jitka's side of the family, it took us two hours to get there and to be honest I was absolutely terrified. I kept saying to myself, if all these people can do it, so can I.

So after another hour of getting equipped we started to make our way to the top of the mountain, and when we got there, I decided that I needed a drink to calm the nerves. I remember looking down the mountain and saying to Jitka "I'd rather break a limb than ski down there!" Well I wasn't disappointed.

After Jitka connected my ski's her snowboard decided to grow legs and run down the mountain, which then led to Jitka chasing after her snowboard. As I was sitting there I decided it would be a cool and great idea to ski past her while waving. After around two seconds I realized that I have never been skiing and how the hell do I stop!?!? I self-consciously thought of roller blades and tried to break using my heel, which then led to me flying up in the air with my back landing on my wrist.

And yes, you guessed it I broke my wrist in two places after just eight seconds of skiing. And just to top it off, nobody from Jitka's family had the chance to snowboard or ski because I had to go to hospital. Bearing in mind that myself and Jitka were only dating for under a year and I was just trying to impress her and make a good impression on the family. That literally fell flat on its face. Since then I have never dared to ski again.

I will just stick to sledging down the front door porch.

Can we dare to dream of a white Christmas this year? I hope so as this would be a first for me. Thank you for reading and we are now all going to enjoy the weather and watch a movie. Next time I will be updating about Christmas shopping in Prague, and our visit to the Old Town Square. Don't forget to follow and share with friends.

I hope you enjoy the photos.

Bye for now.