What I never got round to mentioning yesterday is that I was woken at 9am by the new!vets calling to bring Spike's first appointment forward, so now this happens on Monday instead of April 1st. I was a bit irked because I felt April Fool's Day was particularly appropriate for Spike and I and must therefore be propitious, but on the other hand, the ( Read more... )

Today my niece Maya turned three. My sister is an awesome woman and is having two birthday parties; today's was only family and a couple of close friends, barbecue, Pimm's and cake. Tomorrow is an alcohol-free pirate-themed shindig for twenty-odd three-year-olds and their handlers, and sister T. is far too kind and clever to try and force her ( Read more... )

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Oh holy fucking shit, my father's coming here. To England. In less than two weeks ( Read more... )

Today my baby niece Maya met my dogs for the first time. Mum finally got a car seat installed so she can drive Maya around when she babysits - so she brought her to visit, and we all went to the park ( Read more... )

Today: my niece's first birthday party. I was originally not going to go, since my mother was spending the entire day (and possibly sleeping over) and I wasn't happy leaving the dogs for that long; but my other sister was down from London and going for a shorter time so I went with them. The party happened at Honeybrook Farm and was fun. Goats and ( Read more... )

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Heh. Spike found a child's toy plastic rugby ball on a walk a week ago and it's his favourite toy ever in the whole world. He's played with it every day since we found it, and every day I've finished up by parking it in the fork of a tree for us to play with the next day. And every day it's been that tiny bit harder to get him to give it up ( Read more... )

so tired and fed up today ( Read more... )

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