For some time now I have been very carefully keeping on this side of the crazy cat lady line, but this weekend I'm afraid I inched that bit closer to crossing it. I have now started working in the cattery at the RSPCA. My first job on Saturday morning was to spend some time playing with 3 14 week old kittens because they had only just come in and needed settling down and some sort of personality analysis to be done. Sucks to be me! I'm getting trained up to do the cat adoptions as well, but I'm a little nervous that I will not think that anyone is good enough to have them. I now check the RSPCA website many times each day to make sure I am on top of who is available for adoption and their wee back stories. I am SO sad. Hopefully by say....Christmas though we will have a house totally overflowing with cats and kittens. I do miss the wildlife section a little bit too though - the GORGEOUS little cockatiel from last week was on the news last night, as he whistles loads of classical music so they did an appeal for him because they reckon his owners might recognise his little whistles. Even Stu fell a little bit in love. Fortunately the evil corella was adopted by some mad person, so we don't have to see his ugly mug again!
Saturday night was the riverfire festival here in sunny Brisbane. Once a year they have a big festival celebrating the river, which culminates in an amazing firework display all down the river, loads of red devil style aeroplanes and F11 fighters doing crazy fuel burning antics right over the city. Stu's work threw a bit of a riverfire party, as their office is on the 18th floor of one of the buildings right on the river, with a great view of the Story Bridge, which is one of the fireworks spots. The fireworks were pretty amazing, but it kind of lost something for being indoors and not being able to hear and smell all the gunpowder treason and plot etc. I think all us poms got a bit nostalgic for bonfire night too. All in all I think next year we will go down to ground level to watch with the masses, as I think that would have a bit more atmosphere. Or maybe hire a boat to go out on the river to watch - it was boat soup down there I tell you.
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