This happens EVERY night in our house - it is so cute!

Ally has a built-in antenna for "bed-time", and we have to pretend to try catch her at bedtime evry night. (She sleeps in the kitchen at night with the door closed, as she is a bit of a hooligan during the night, and creates havoc if left to roam around the house unsupervised.)

As I start switching off lights, TV, PC etc she runs into my dining room and jumps up onto a chair (under the table). We then have to play hide and seek for at least 10 minutes!

I run around one side of the table and peep under the table cloth close to where she is and say "Boo" - then she jumps to another chair on the other side of the table and the process is repeated. This goes on for a while, excpet every now and then she will streak through the lounge, down the passage, around the corner and back under the table again.

This game continues until Madam Ally is tired of it, at which point she will wander into the kitchen, drink some water, and then waits for either a piece of ham or biltong (like beef jerkey 0 from South Africa), after which she settles down for her beauty sleep.

Needless to say after all this frantic activity I am now WIDE AWAKE, and cannot get to sleep for ages