With everything that had happened recently I cancelled going out for my birthday with friends, I just wasn't in the mood.

Unknown to me our good friend TigerFeet had arranged with Deckchair to visit with her impossibly cute baby girl Little'un(She is going to be our flower girl in our wedding in November 05)

Bearing in mind this is the first weekend in months where I have had not had to be running around like a headless chicken sorting out wedding plans. So I had got up very late and was watching TV in my dressing gown.

Deckchair wandered into the kitchen to brew a cup of tea and TigerFeet and Little'un walked out !!!!

I was gobsmacked...what a wonderful surprise.

Not only did TigerFeet bring her daughter and herself, she bought a lunch for everyone, and a bottle of champayne for our engagment and a wonderful card and tipsy glasses and jug as our wedding gift (which I opened straight away bad me)

Little'un was as cute as ever and can now walk on her own !!! Last time we saw her six months ago she was just sitting up on her own...what a sweetie.

Little'un loved our cats and spent a fair amount of time chasing after them, one at a time. With only one exception our cats watched Little'un with round eyes and flat ears. They disliked the excited screams Little'un was making and they walked around her in wide cycles to avoid any personal attention.

The exception was our big ginger cat Sandy !!! This is surprising as this is the cat that was described by his shelter as the 'monster biting' cat, has calmed down alot with us, but supposely only lived with an older lady.

Sandy was so enchanted with Little'un he had his straight in the air 'happy tail' and he would run up to her but the moment she reached out to him, his fear got the better of him and he would slink off, to return moments later

Deckchair found a stuffed dog toy which played 'My girl' when you pushed a button on the dogs paw. Little'un loved it and so she took it home, whether TigerFeet felt the same after the drive home with Little'un and the toy dog, I don't know.

It was a lovely surprise visit and I thank TigerFeet and Little'un for visiting us