And Dad...

... is 64 so twice my age!

Doggy Calamity

Poor Thai has had a bad time of it recently - she and Sherb had a spat the other day and Thai ended up needing a stitch in her ear. Although she had to wear a cone, it was a cut off one, just to protect the back of her ear from scratching.
After a couple of visits to the vets and extending her antibiotics we then went in for what I hoped was having the stitch out but, over the weekend she had cut her foot while dashing round the garden - not bad enough for a stitch or so I thought but it wouldn't heal.

So we left with the stitch still in an a spectacular bandage on her rear foot.
So today we went back to the vet and this time the stitch came out and they rebound her foot with the prettiest bandage EVER!

How cute is that! And she has to have a proper cone on now.

The weather has been weird for the time of year - clear blue skies and very warm with frosty mornings - more like early autumn weather really. Any way it has meant some great light etc and very very early flowers budding and blooming. My Mum was saying that she used to collect daffodils for my Nan's birthday in March but she has never known them to be out before her birthday (end of Feb), let alone, K's birthday (early Feb)!

And of course we can't leave out the monster...

Or JJ, particularly as his contract has been unexpectedly suspended (council not paying their bills basically) so he is no longer in Birmingham and instead he is messing up the place...

A delivery and getting lippy

I waited today for quite some while for the rudest delivery man I had ever met. He dropped off our new kitchen cupboard doors whi are splendiferous. Our old kitchen cupboards were not to my taste at all so a few summers ago, my sister and I painted some of the doors on the back lawn with some special silver cupboard paint. Unfortunately, it got dark before we had finished and eventually we gave up with the weather and remounted all the doors and would finish them later on. So for the last few years, we had a somewhat patchwork kitchen effect. Now, normally this would be a source of annoyance for most people but I wasn't too bothered as it soon became evident that the cupboard paint was about a robust as a chocolate teapot. The closeup of the handle is of a top cupboard so saw little wear and tear compared to the bottom cupboards, which were bashed by big dogs.






There were 29 boxes that were delivered - of that 29, the delivery man carried 7 on his sack trolley and I carried all the rest. And he refused to bring them into the house as there was one step - I was not best pleased.

But it has been one of those weeks, the women in my family have not faired well this week. Poor Thai had to have a stitch in her ear over the weekend. She then cut her foot in the garden and, as I cleaned and bandaged it, she nutted me and split my lip and gave me a blood blister.



When my sister rang to say that she had got the flowers that I had sent for her birthday, I fully expected her to tell me that she had accidently stabbed herself with them. She is suffering - she has an exam tomorrow and so much coursework on her plate that she has put off her birthday celebrations until next week, however she deigned to allow Mum and Dad to cook her pancakes tonight. We are putting off the pancake day in our house until John is home - no fun having pancakes on your own...

More photos

So, tomorrow is the 6th of January and so the decorations have to come down or, according to supersition, you will have bad luck all year. So, I have been mucking about with my camera again and have been taking picies of the tree.

First of all, I became a little obessed with this bauble:

Then came a series I like to call, bad 70's christmas card...

Thai was helping by napping in a tangle...

And JJ was helping by napping on the sofa, though I also managed to catch him in a rare moment of awakeness...

And Finally, what I like to call "A progressive self-portrait, cuminating in mono-chrome bauble imprisionment".