Maddy's Chair

I have come to the conclusion that Maddy has been spoilt rotten and the Man Servant is the biggest culprit. Maddy comes into the kitchen and chirrups until she has been given another portion of wet food ... which , if it's not to her liking, she ignores with a disdainful look. Today the Man Servant was called into the sitting-room. He stupidly assumed that she wanted her 5th brushing of the day but this was not the case, what she actually wanted, was for the fire to be put on ... and she showed both her Servants in no uncertain terms  what she wanted. Naturally the fire was put on for her ... who could deny her that!!

Maddy sleeps on her “own” chair which she selected shortly after arriving here and which  is positioned in the sitting room in such a way that she can see everything going on down the passage. The chair is of course, equipped with a cushion and a sheep-skin rug for her comfort.  Needless to say, it is the most comfortable chair in the sitting-room and used to be the one that visitors naturally gravitated to but that is a thing of the past.

When her female servant has come in from her duties, the first job is to prepare a mid-morning snack of a few pieces of cheese and this is taken in to her, walking quietly so as not to unduly disturb her. The snack then has to be carefully positioned in such a way that she doesn’t have to get up off the chair in order to eat it.