Today was going so nicely, I’d tricked the parents into giving me lots of chocolate. Then we went out for a walk which I always enjoy. We walked all the way to this big building and it was great there, because there were lots of little people like me to play with.

Then things weren’t so nice. Mama and Papa took me off to a room with more big people in it and one of the nasty, horrible, big people stock a needle in both of my legs, which bloody hurt. A lot.

I don’t think I want to walk to that building again *sniff *sniff.

When I woke up this morning the people who I am sure are in some way connected to Mama appeared in the house. I think they are staying with us again for a while. However, this evening the other big person who I think might be Papa’s Mama came to collect me and take me to her home. I’m not quite sure but I think Mama and Papa and the other big people went out somewhere without me.

I of course don’t mind that so much as I spent most of the evening practising my climbing ability by going up and down the stair of the house of the big person who I think is Papa’s Mama.

It has been a busy couple of days, so a quick rundown. On Tuesday we all went to a place somewhere in Birmingham where all the yummy chocolate in purple wrappers comes from. I somehow think that the big person who feeds me had rather a good time there as she is a chocolate monster.

Today, which is actually yesterday as it is past midnight we all took a trip to central Birmingham to show our visitors around and buy nice things for me.

That leads me on to the main element of today’s entry. I now know that the big person who feeds me is not called ‘the big person who feeds me’ whatever hair colour she has. She is in fact called ‘mama’. So there you have it, not very imaginative I know, but my first intelligible word was mama. Just a brief clarification for my English speaking readers. ‘Mama’ is German for ‘mommy’. This is definitely a step in the right direction on developing my oral skills although I don’t think I’ll make the call for speakers at this year Royal Institute Christmas lectures.

Oh, and I still haven’t got a clue what the other big person who lives with me is called but I’ll try and work it out one of these days.

It is about half past one in the morning an the big person who doesn’t feed me has return tothe house with another big person and a small person (who is a bit bigger than me). I recognise them from when we were in Germany in Summer. Unfortunately I don’t have any time to play with them tonight as I am being urged to go to bed now. So I’ll let you know tomorrow about developments.

I was doing my normal rounds of crawling around the living room today and something wasn’t right. In fact something was decidedly wrong. Now I must mention that as a small person, we get very used to things being as we previously found them. Big people beware, moving lots of stuff around in the house disorientates us.

However in this case we are not dealing with something that has moved. Moreover it is something (big white thing attached to the wall) that is different. Previously when I have investigated it, it has been cold. However today it was warm, not hot in the case of too hot to touch but warmer than it had been. In fact, I think it was warming up the whole room.

I heard the big people mention that they had to put the heating on? So my question is: what’s the warm thing on the wall all about?

On our travels to the office in Walsall today I came across some new Big People. But as well as that there were also two medium sized people. Not as small as me but not as big as the Big People. This is getting rather too confusing at times.

I have also heard a rumour that two people are coming to stay with us on Sunday. I think it is two of the people I met while I was in Germany in summer and they are somehow connected to the Big Person who lives with me and feeds me. I will keep you all posted on developments.

Arghh, the big people who I live with stuck me in all this wet stuff again today. They do this quite often and then smell me afterwards. I have no idea why.