The Party.

Two nights ago we decided to visit our grandson, it had been awhile and it was time for another visit. Megan our daughter was at work so we didn’t tell her we were going, but if we’d waited for myself and Megan to both be off work, then we’d never see him.
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Paul and I had a lovely time visiting him, to me he didn’t seem to have grown but he was still only  four weeks old, so tiny and fragile looking, yet now eleven pounds!
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On our return back home, I didn’t go upstairs, for I had no need to, so I chilled downstairs watching TV and kipping.
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About two hours later, I went up to bed, I’d said, “Good night,” To Hubby Paul who was doing his art in the front room.
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Then there at the top of the stairs on the Landing I saw it, sprawled out, looking quite fluffed up, well very fluffed up, not looking its best, clearly attacked, the lustre had gone, it was my pride and joy, my most treasured possession, yes there on the floor was my wig!
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I was SO shocked I was unable to pick it up straight away and after a few seconds I did. It didn’t look good, I was too sad for tears, who I thought could have done something so bad as this?
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Jonathan our teenage cat was soundly asleep three feet away, would he have been that silly? To abuse my wig in this way? No, it wasn’t him, he loves me too much, I know Jonathan!
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I picked up my most treasured possession and went back downstairs and showed Paul, I said, “Look what a cat has done,” he looked at me and then my wig, laying limp less and lifeless in my hand and he said, “You can wash it, can’t you?” I bit my lip and nodded. Now in another world and time, or a comic clip on TV he would have roared with laughter at the sight in front of him but as we have been married a long time, so he knew better.
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Next my attentions went to the other cats in the home, there was Ruby and her three kittens, could it have been one of them? I don’t thing Ruby would have done such an evil deed.
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So I let my mind wonder, what would happen if I took the kittens up and individually interrogated them, placing the wig back where I’d found it and seeing their reaction? I imagined the first kitten has I held him in my hands seven inches above the poor wig, I could almost see him trying to re paw at it again!
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How about teeny tiny kitten number two, I did the same thing, holding him seven inches above the poor wig and he trying to wriggle free to play again?
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But no it was kitten number three! The culprit! As he was put near my poor wig, it was crystal clear to me, he’d had a party on my hair a PARTY! He’d jumped on it,  scratched it, clawed at it with it pooy paws, rolled in it, he was in cat heaven, at my expense! I could even see him thanking me for the best toy he’d ever had! I’d often recycled items, for them like plastic bottles, crinkles wrappers but this must of topped the lot! I looked  in his little green eyes, and yes he’d said, “Thank you Mummy for my toy.” What could I do? The deed had been done.
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It did seem to be human error at the end of the day, for the small wooden clothes peg was also there on the floor broken in two. Usually after I wore it, I would clip it back on the line high up in the air on the Landing, using a large plastic clothes peg, but I wasn’t able to find it so I’d used a cheap substitute!
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The fact that this real hair wig, had only cost me a pound at the car boot, it was still to me my most treasured possession, for I would have never been able to afford the retail price, having met the posh Lady who I’d bought it from.
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My daughter Megan did say to me before, “As it’s real hair you can put a spot of hair conditioner on it when you wash it, it looks like I’d have to put a bit more than a spot, to bring it back to life!
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I didn’t have the heart to wash it yesterday, but I will attempt to do it today for I want to wear it Christmas day to Church.
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Always when I put it on, I have felt like a million dollars, but if I’d gone to Church like how I’d found it, they all would have thought that I looked like I’d been dragged through a hedge backwards!
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I hope it survives the  wash, I will be extra gentle. Wish me Luck!