Pip came home today, She's not 100%, but she seems perky enough. The vet told us there is a virus doing the rounds - they admitted eight dogs yesterday with sickness and diarrhea - so it's probably a bug Pip caught and not a reaction to a change in food or anything like that. Even so, we've been advised to be careful when trying her with anything ( Read more... )

We've had an unpleasant and somewhat stressful couple of days. Pip's ...(people of a nervous disposition may wish to look away now)....had really bad diarrhea. It started at 4am on Thursday morning with her whining to be let outside. By Thursday night we were in a bit of a state with a dog that clearly felt uncomfortable and wanted to pace up and ( Read more... )

I called out a heating engineer to look at the boiler as it's making one hell of racket. He diagnosed a faulty heat exchanger which will cost nearly £400 to replace. He was straight with me and suggested I'd be better of having a new boiler. To add wight to his advice; he doesn't sell and fit new boilers, only repairs them, so it's not like he ( Read more... )

I hope you all enjoyed Good Friday. It was nice to have Jill and Heather at home with nothing to do but sit around and chat and read and eat chocolate. I must have spent about two hours sorting out iTunes and the virus-checker on the family laptop. Heather asked me to take a look because she couldn't transfer her music to her iPod. Dad to the ( Read more... )

I have had a muzzy head all day. It's felt like eyestrain, so I haven't done much reading or gaming or, well, much of anything really. I even skived off taking Pip for a walk this afternoon. It's too bloomin' cold out there!

Bought a mini-bundle of games from Humble Bundle. They are doing weekly offers now. Gawd help me ( Read more... )

Treacherous underfoot today. LIke wet, corrugated glass. If I didn't have to walk Pip I'd have stayed indoors. Glad I didn't though. The park was beautiful.

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Lots more snow fell last night, and it was far too cold to get my camera out so here's a pic from yesterday.


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It's a bit late for snow, but that hasn't stopped it coming down thick and fast. No school for Heather, which really saddened her. Not.


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I was going to start this post by saying I hadn't posted for nearly a week, but a glance at my LJ tells me it's actually closer to a fortnight. Oops. You miss a day and...well, it kinda slips away from you, doesn't it? Part of the problem for me, and I'm talking about many things here, not just my LJ, is that I ask myself what's the point. Big ( Read more... )

Here are the pics I wanted to post yesterday. The first is Pip in her long-haired ragamuffin state...

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