Afternoon everyone.
Chris good news about Rosie's tests lets hope it was as you thought last week anal glands after all.
Well done with the invoice Helena.
Mini and the bookcase.
Sorry the curtain trip to Dunelms wasn't fruitful Linda. Good boy Loki.
Bev sorry you didn't get anywhere with the Dr.
Good news about Sasha June shame you have to wait till Monday before you get back into your own bed.


Well we have had some good news but it was a shock.
Gorden was chasing up his payment from one of the consultant agencies he works for this morning.
They have asked him to go to wait for it to Nigeria for 4 days possibly this weekend the man who was meant to be doing it has been taken ill and is now in hospital. He already has the flight ticket but they are now trying to change the name on the visa if they can get it changed in time it will be this weekend if not they may have to change it to next weekend.
Excellent money for 4 days work.
He is hoping next week as its half term and he won't lose his 3 days money from the local school.
He has spoken to the lady organising it and she is so grateful he has said he will go as she thought she would have a conference with 50 teachers and no one to train them and its the first one she has organised.

Had some useful information from the finance lady at the home Gill and I visited Friday but it seems Michael is not going to take the advice as I thought he wouldn't so on his head be it.
He has found another place even closer to him and he is off to see it tomorrow and if he likes it he will arrange to take mum to see it. He sounded her out Saturday and she said she would live in a shed at the bottom of his garden to get out. I hope she understands she is not going to actually move in with him.

So I have done all the research nothing more to research or any other advice to get and give so I have signed off from it now.

Great News Lynn the light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter by the minute, sooo pleased for you. Obviously would be better if Gordon didn't have to go to Nigeria, but you can't have everything can you
Sorry to hear Michael isn't taking proper advice, like you say on his head be it, and if it is nearer him then he will have more of the donkey work to do, just like you were doing for so very long.
Glad you are leaving him to it as well.

At a guess then Chris, it would seem to be down to diet, maybe the old food had too much fat, consequently setting off the pancreas perhaps? Let's keep everything crossed then that now you've changed her food everything will settle down for her and you won't have to worry again. I would still keep that log as you've been doing, so that if anything happens, something in that log will show up what might have caused it. All the best with her Chris, I really hope she's going to be just fine now.

Hi Debbie Fantastic news about the jewellery taking off like it has, long may it continue! Oh that norty Daisy eating all that wood and muck down on the beach again, no wonder she was sick, but glad to hear it was so short lived. Happy Monday to you, we've just finished ours, well almost xxxxxxxxxx

Hi Gerry, I seem to have got you started on those lights of yours, and I too, will be washing the glass on that bedroom one until I get round to choosing something else to go in there, but it's not as important for me as getting that wood down in the hall. I'm having a fight over it now, cos he's just come back from Wickes and seen some nice wooden laminate which he says he wants to put down The whole reason I wanted my carpet men to do it was the fact that it'll be done in 2 hours or so, not go on for weeks and bladdy weeks like everything else does here Hey ho, we'll see who wins Awwww, how lovely that little Fijii remembered her dancing moves there, bless

Hi Jenny Seee, we told you it'd be ok, but even better by the sounds of it. I wish I had a friend to walk Zena with I'm Billy no Mate down the beach, whereas she had all her gsd friends in the woods, but we'll soon be back in there and she does have one or two friends down on the beach, just that I don't walk with them, although one of them, being a nice young mannnnn, I wouldn't mind if I did lol!

Hi June, Yayyyy, we've got Sash for another week then!!! So glad she's passed the vet's scrutiny, let's hope she stays the little bundle of mischief, oooooops, I mean, the little healthy puppy that she is now until she goes on Monday next week. That is going to be a very, very sad day for all of us along with yourself June, I'm sure you and Sasha have a very special bond now. Sorry about the sleep though, or rather the lack of it for yet another week!!!!

Hi Linda Well I've always washed all my curtains, without even checking the labels. The only mishap I ever had in the washing machine, was with one of those cheap, furry throws I got from Dunelms I think? It was super soft silky and furry, but once it was in the machine, it disintegrated to thousands of bits of wet tissue paper which Dave had to get out by tipping the machine over backwards and taking half the innerds away to do so I got told off for that I must check labels now he tells me. Can't you wet a corner of one and see how it fairs??? I didn't tell you to do that though!!!

Hi again Sal, curry and chips sound yum. So glad to hear those neighbours are on the move, you'll be celebrating big time once they've gone won't you, and it can't come soon enough I'm sure.

Awwwww, well, this friend's dog was 10, and don't forget old Georgie had a GA in his state for his ear flushing at 11, and then my other dog with pyo at 13, they all breezed through it Jackie. I think the GA nowadays is very, very safe, but it's the pre-med (I think!!) that is the dubious one, so if Millie is a good girl, you cold ask the vet if she actually needed the pre-med? Have a chat with him, I'm sure he will put your mind at rest over it.

Hi Lynn, Nigeria??!! Is it safe atm out there? Isn't that next to Algeria where all the trouble is then where they are telling all foreigners to leave?? I'm sure I hear that on the news the other day, but maybe Nigeria is a long way away. At least it'll be warmer than Kazahgstan (sp? big time lol!) At least it'll be over quickly and will keep the wolf from the door. Hopefully, you'll finally get some housekeeping unless somebody else grabs it first like they have been Good luck to Gorden, and glad you're washing your hands of the other problems, leave it to Michael now, you've done more than your bit.

June - another week until you can hit your bed Oh, but we all do so love Sasha and her antics.

Lynn - so Gorden is in demand That will be a boost to his morale . If he does go to Nigeria for 4 days for good money, it will go very quickly for you and him I hope. As you say it would be even better if it can be delayed until half term.

Having been very lucky here in the south east where we've had a glorious sunny day and eleven degrees, the temperature is now suddenly dipping ..... not that I expect any sympathy as I gather from some of you that you've had a cold, wet and windy day.

See you all later.

It might look a teeny bit odd if I go in armed with a water pistol. Unless ... I get Michael to 'accidentally' squirt the curtains - he still has the baby license you know.

Just for you Nechda, here is a map of Africa [plus a few other places...]

Lol, well hubby came with me, I had a good time!
I bought a new steamer, face cloths, a timer for the kitchen etc etc! Then ran off to P@H leaving hubby to pay When we next met up he said, thats the last time I come to Dunelm with you!!!

I've never dry cleaned curtains. Just fold them up & wash on a very cool quick wash. They always come out fine.

Thank you. I might give it a go.

Hi Helena and anyone else concerned about Gorden's safety it is Northern Nigeria that is the worst and mostly the trouble is in Mali and he is going to the South (Lagos).

He will be in a hotel with its own security and drivers they don't use local taxis and it is within a compound which he won't need to leave as the training is being done in the hotel.
The organisation arranging it and have been doing this for months thinking the other chap was going out are
very professional and more with it than the group who arranged Kazakhstan.

He says he will be not wandering about here like he did there as it is not one of the safest places for foreigners to be wandering around.