We have one very cheeky cat... his name is Barney and I know that his mother Wilma breastfed him for way too long (no offense here to people who choose to breastfeed their children until they are older... but in human years he was still feeding at way over 7 years old!).

His mother eventually ran away due to him annoying her too much (true story) and now we have one very large and very cuddly cat that loves to laze around the house and leave his big fluffy hairs wherever he goes (especially on my nice black window seat).

One of his most annoying habits at the moment is that he swipes my books from my bedside table in the middle of the night to get my attention to let him outside. Now I am one of those over-organised people who has a diary full of dates and appointments with bits of paper and bills to pay carefully slotted in each page... which Barney loves to scatter all over the ground.

So, I decided to create some more Cheeky Cats for the Softie Shop - but these cats are not at all like Barney... they are nice friendly cats that don't leave their hairs all over the house and don't swipe people's diaries from the bedside tables.

On Saturday we decided to take the family on an adventure... an adventure to where some of our ancestors first settled in New Zealand. Now these ancestors are on both my side and my husband's side... but we won't go into the details behind that today (*cough cough*).

Armed with a healthy picnic dinner (chippie sandwiches included) and my grandmothers crocheted rug, we were set for a drive out in the wops to find some special places.

We found Drake road and took multiple shots of us all posing next to the road sign... a little embarrassing each time someone drove past (especially when a certain someone decided he just had to climb the pole for his shot).