My Flying Lesson

I was so bored this morning. I asked Sebastian if we could go for a tour of the garden but he said it was his sleep time. He wakes up in the morning, has breakfast, has his early morning nap, has a light snack, then has a mid morning nap. When he wakes up it's lunch time, then he has an afternoon nap before tea then he has his evening nap before he wakes up to go to bed for the night.

I thought I'd go and explore on my own. Outside there was Percy having a wander and pecking at the grass - I saw him pull up a couple of worms. I was very interested in some white butterflies that were circling the garden but as much as I chased after them and jumped up, I was always just below their flight paths.

"Have to learn you to fly properly if you're to catch them there flutterbies!" called Percy with a worm dangling from his beak. I thought the worm was going to make his bid for freedom as Percy spoke, but Percy just gulped him down in mid sentence and made a little burp. "Oops, manners!" he corrected himself.

"But I can't fly, Percy. Cats don't have wings like you."

"No need little fellow you just flap your arms like I do my wings and before you know it you're up and over the rooftops."

"No way!" I was so impressed.

"I've taught so many to fly I should be a corn millionaire if they paid me a grain a flight, laddie. Just get up somewhere high; concentrate and flap those arms. It's all about confidence. if you say 'I can fly', you will fly. trust Percy"

I climbed up the bird table and stood on the roof. I didn't feel confident. Perhaps that was the problem. I flapped my paws and then some more and then I took off. I landed splat on the grass in front of the bird table.

Percy pulled another worm from the lawn, swallowed it and took to the air. He circled over and fired a customary missile just beside me.

"One born every minute!" he squawked and flew off,

Sebastian - lazing on the swing - rose from his sleep to cackle at me.

I went off to bed nursing a sore belly from where I crash landed. I'm not going to believe anyone any more.

Here's me getting ready for take off......