Twenty-four hours after the Gingersnaps officially arrived they’re both coming out together. Greebo in particular is no longer moving around the room underneath the furniture. When I went to bed last night both he (looking) and Ponder (sound asleep) were up on the bed, cuddled together in a corner of the bed. That’s Lucy’s old blanket in the background… When I finally, carefully, sacked out next to them Greebo finally went to sleep as well.

It would have been a sound sleep except that sometime around 3am I was awakened to small scampering feet across the top of the blankets and me. Then at 5am Ponder started his burrowing under the blankets trick again while Geebo stayed on top to pounce him, in their version of the bed mice game.

The Gingersnaps are adapting quickly and nicely. It’s me I’m beginning to worry about now. My feet, in particular.