Not quite up a gumtree

Mango Kitty and Mr Bigglesworth just love climbing trees! I don't know what they would do without each other. The two of them charge around the garden, up and down trees, dash inside just to let us know they are still around, then dash back downstairs and straight up another tree. Fortunately they are so active that the birds keep a healthy distance, although they are still too young to actually have the skill to catch one - that will come later, along with a bell on an elastic, I think.

Today we were standing on the balcony and noticed that the buddleia was swaying and there was no wind. We looked down and there were the silly kitties, right at the top. The thickest branch on the buddleia is about 1.5cm and they are by now a sturdy 3kgs. Biggles has a habit of chewing on the twigs of every tree he climbs, which was rather worrying when he was up the oleander, but he survived that unscathed, perhaps not actually breaking the surface, and he was testing his teeth on the buddleia as he swayed to and fro.

Mango and Biggles with the fountain waiting for them underneath

Biggles on top of the tree

Mango precariously perched above the fountain

They were directly over the fountain which is currently full of very cold water, and we waited anxiously for the splash and shriek as they fell out of the tree, but they were far too clever to fall! And when they had tired of playing there, they just slithered down and ran off to the next tree, which had much thicker branches.