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Is it really nearly a week since I last blogged? Sorry!
Updates on Honey - she is still doing well and I have stopped using the muzzle as she has been leaving her leg alone, apart from the usual clean up/wash lick she does all over. I was due to take her back to the vet yesterday and all the pin holes were dry and clean when I went out in the morning. I had lunch out with John at Wetherspoons in Poole. I had their lovely chicken tikka masala with naan, 2 poppadoms, curry, rice and chutney. It was lovely! I digress.. I got back home in a bit of a rush to get out with Honey to the vet. It was literally in the front door, put on Honey's collar and lead and back out of the door and off to the vet. However... Honey had decided today was the day she'd give her pinned leg some attention! She had been licking away at just one pin hole and made it very pink! I told the vet she had just done it and he checked it out thoroughly. There was no sign of pus or inflammation but the fact she had been licking it worried him  so she is on extended anti-biotics and back on anti-inflammatory pain killers. It all looked fine last night when I did the nightly wash with Hibiscrub and applied anti-septic cream so maybe she was just a bit too intense with her washing yesterday. I am watching it and her!
Tomorrow I complete another year of my life and the old yearometer clocks up one more. Some days being 60 something feels ancient when I hear of people dying about my age or younger! Then I remember my lovely Mum made it to 92 with a crumbling body but not too bad a mind. Yes she had memory lapses but a string of TIAs over the years had lost small bits of memory. She was still really alert mentally and in full working order until her final stroke.
I'm not sure I want to live another 30 years but 15-20 would be good. I'd love to make it to be a great grandma! Jack is nearly 10 and Alex rising 6 so it's not an impossible dream. I'm not sure I want 20 years of pain though!
My daughter keeps saying she forgets how old I am and still thinks of me as 40 something which is probably more my mental age :) But then I think every person has some part of their persona that doesn't age. We all keep an element of the child we once were in us. Who hasn't had the urge to kick a pile of leaves? or run into the shallows at the beach? or build a sand castle? Of course it's for the children/grandchildren, isn't it?
I think letting a bit of your inner child loose at times is good for you. Do you remember how big a Knickerbocker Glory seemed as a child - some places still do them you know! They don't seem as daunting as an adult or maybe they make them smaller nowadays, but have one at least once a year! I totally embarrassed my daughter once when driving through Poole town centre with a couple of her friends in the back on our way to dropping them off on Poole Quay. I 'forgot' the windows were down as it was a warm summer's evening (remember those? ) and as we passed a small group of young lads (about 20-24yrs) I went "phwawwww look at those tight buns" just a little too loudly! They turned round and just saw Jen and her friends who died of embarrassment! She never said if they bumped into them later or not LOL. I do enjoy embarrassing the kids now :) like I said, you never totally lose the inner child.
I am worried my daughter is going into premature middle age though. She likes Cotton Traders clothes! Having said that they do good quality clothing at reasonable prices, and especially half price offers.
OMG!! Gino di Campo is on TV naked! Cooking on ITV's Good Morning with a very embarrassed Holly Willoughby and a cool Phil Schofield. Gino has a lovely body (what we can see of it) So funny! They raised the worktop for decency LMAO. Oh that man is delicious! Forget the food!
*puts hormone filled teenager feelings back in their box*
We are having a chnge this year for my birthday tomorrow. Usually the kids get annoyed trying to find presents for me they can afford, and I have to express delight at what I am given even if it's not 'quite' what I'd hoped for. We usually all go out for a meal (7 of us) and I pay as a treat to them all. In other words it's hassle and expense all round. So I had a brainwave that they forget presents this year and just share the bill for the meal between them. I get a lovely evening out with all my family which I love, plus some good food,without it costing me a fortune and they don't have to worry about buying me a present. They each pay for their own meal and a bit of mine. Won't break the bank and I get good memories that don't cost me a fortune! I just hope the restaurant we've picked has enough choices on the menu to provide something for all. The boys are pretty good at eating a variety of things, Jen can be picky but is usually ok, James can have a burger and chips or scampi and chips, and the rest of us eat anything. A lovely birthday celebration! :)
62! Bugger!