Though not necessarily connected. I thought you might like this photo of Xolo in her Elizabethan collar, taken this morning. Madame has learned over the last few weeks to tolerate the collar, and even to crawl under the duvet in it, but it does make it difficult for her to scratch her ears, and humans have to be involved.
It has kept raining, and you don't realise just how much it has been raining until you come across something like this.
This is the way the Roding looks in summer
and this is how it looks now...
From this
to this