Not So Sweet

Update on Honey first. She saw our vet Tuesday and has had the dressing changed. There is still considerable bruising but it's looking clean and dry and no sign of infection. They re-dressed it with her fully conscious and unsedated and she was as good as gold having it done. The model patient! They also managed to clip her claws which have grown at a rate of knots as she has not been getting the amount of exercise she got previously. To restrict her movement around the house, I had used a huge TV packaging box as a stair gate. My stairs are wide and the gap is too big for a standard baby gate. The box sat on the bottom step and filled the gap perfectly. I just swung it out far enough to get through the gap at one end, like a hinged gate. Honey watched me doing this a few times and was not happy when I went upsatirs to bed at night, leaving her to sleep downstairs. She finally worked out that a bit of a nose at one end of the box moved it enough for her to slink past it and up the stairs. She joined me in the middle of the night! She also managed to make it down again in the morning but VERY slowly. I am not too happy about letting her up but at least this way we both get a decent night's sleep. She was waking and getting distressed several times in the night, waking me up with her whining/crying so I went to see her to make sure she was ok. Now it's bed time together and peace all night (apart from my snoring! :-D)

I have been undergoing tests to sort out my old decrepit body. My BP is ok and does not need medication. My cholesterol is too high for my doc's happiness so I am now starting on statins. I have had 3 tests for diabetes which have come back positive finally. It's caught early but because of my weight and age doc has put me on Metformin and a controlled diet. *sigh* so I am off down the Diabetic clinic next Wednesday with my friend Linda, who has also just been diagnosed glucose intolerant. She is a few years younger than me and not nearly so overweight so at the moment she is on diet only control. So we will support each other with diabetic stuff and get to Weightwatchers or Slimming World together. Good job we have a laugh together!



Before the rain - coming up behind us



It's only 3 weeks to Fairport's Cropredy Convention and I am getting excited about it. It does mean camping but it's a fun few days and very relaxing.

They have a great line up for this year, including UB40, Horslips, Seasick Steve and many many more.

Most years it's around 25,000 people in one field in Oxforshire a few miles from Banbury. Three nights of amazing bands and music. The only down side is it's all in the open air and subject to the vaguaries of an English summer.



One of the warm sunny spells



 There's somewhere in the region of 30+ food stalls all round the field and I love the variety on offer. Best eaten at the stalls though as the food chills off quickly trying to get it back to your seat which is.....somewhere

Oh the joys of festivals!