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It's just starting to get warmer here now and I think we will be in for an uncomfortable night. Tomorrow's temperatures are going to be horrendous! We might get chance to sit out for a bit though and get some fresh air.

I was going to complain about the parking attendants weeks ago but decided I didn't need the extra stress to be honest Suzeanna. We have enough stress as it is as we are still battling to get our money back from our holiday. A transatlantic crossing on the Queen Mary 2, 5 star hotel in New York with premium flights back is not an insubstantial sum as you can imagine.

Oh no Owl. You have all my sympathy and I do hope your fine is cancelled as it should be!

We are home and had soup for lunch which is about all Ruby can manage. She's dozed off. To add insult to injury at the hospital a car pulled in beside me, leaving no room for Ruby to get in, on a clearly marked "keep clear" area in front of the entrance door. A young woman jumped out and went inside. I'm thinking "gone for a permit & will move into a space when she returns" 20 minutes later she's still inside. Finally a half-an-hour later she came out & got in the car. By now there were 2 free spaces very close but she just sat in the car chatting to her passengers and was still there 15 minutes later when Ruby came out. I had to move back to let Ruby get in the car. And I was the one who got hassled! Griff you could do with turning up with a millionaire right now!

Eve it's a lump of chocolate on a stick. You stir hot chocolate with it to make it even more chocolatey. Then you sprinkle the marshmallows on top. I'm sitting in the car at the hospital. Ruby's been in about 30 minutes. I got very short with the parking addendant who came too close to the car & got stroppy over me being parked in the disabled and concessional area. I told him we'd just arrived and Ruby had gone for the concession permit. I told him this through the closed window and he said he couldn't hear me. I waved him back, opened my window a little and told him that I could hear him thro the window so he should stop being awkward. He told me it's only a metre distancing now. I replied in ideal circumstances it still is 2m. You are in a hospital car park, there are vulnerable people about. I'm shielding. I don't want you standing just a metre away from me with no mask on giving me the 3rd degree. He told me there was no need to be rude about it. Ha! I'd just had enough as I go through this with the parking attendants every time we are here who jump on me as soon as Ruby goes through the hospital door. They never give us time for her to return with the permit and come way to close to the car. They have also done it as we are ready to leave and Ruby has taken the permit back inside!

That sounds like a pretty good day to me Eve. I'm glad you enjoyed it. We got our veg box delivery today along with homemade soup, bread, butter, eggs, scones and chocolate orange cake from a lovely local shop. The ladies who own and run it added a chocolate stirrer with marshmallows for Ruby which we thought was a lovely kind gesture.

It's faired up after this mornings rain but now the winds got up. It sounds like winter out there. Owl you made me laugh with your reference to people dodging. My friend and I have found we like doing this so much that we intend keeping it up for the rest of our lives 😂😂😂

That's very good of Philips manager. Ruby's firm sent a fabulous selection of pencils and pads for her to take to the chemo unit for the kids who go for treatment. I like all the Fever tree stuff.

Hope the appointment goes well Suzeanna. Heavy rain here.

Morning Owl and other fellow Fugees. Still raining here but at least we are getting our water supplies topped up as they were getting low 👍

Aw good girl Wispa and well done your friend Owl managing the pawdicure. Still rainy and overcast here. I'm not bothered as we can't get out and certainly wouldn't want to try to go any where local. Far too many idiots acting like there's no such thing as C-19. The local police have had to team up with National Trust and Forestry Commision staff to go on patrols to stop the inconsiderate wild camping that is still going on. This is not the genuine wild campers, who come to appreciate the countryside and leave no sign of their stay, but a new subset of the human race who care for nothing but their own selfish pleasures. The worst of it is that they argue with the patrols as they really think they are entitled to do what they want, where they want when they come here.

I've just noticed Siadwell put a post in Rainbow Bridge on Monday and it's gone unanswered until I posted just now. Another lovely Fugee dog loss so if you can acknowledge it too that would be nice for Siadwell 💔💔

Aww I am so sorry for your loss. Barry was a gorgeous boy 💔💔 Also apologies for not replying before now. There's only a handful of us left posting these days and we all hang out in just one thread.

Great story Owl. I'm sitting here chuckling. It was very wet this morning so Ruby and I went to the beach and managed a walk as there was no one about, only a few erstwhile dog walkers in the distance. It was lovely to get some sea air despite the fact we got soaked. Henry has arrived at my friends and is settling in. The children absolutely love him and the feeling is mutual. He's very gentle around them and seems to be watching over them to make sure they are OK. He's had a little play with Chase, the resident dog, in the garden but after Chase got a little bit boisterous, although Henry took it in his stride, my friends slowed it all down and then seperated them to give Henry peace.

Technology has moved us on a long way. I can remember when a 26" colour telly was the bees knees and the best you could have. I'm nervous for tomorrow but Henry's travelling with the lovely transporter who he knows and who gives him snuggles. My friends have promised "Henry has landed" photos. I doubt May will have any trouble settling, bless her. Your 3 are so funny Eve. I do hope I get to meet them some day. Suzeanna that question was a bit of a conversation stopper 😮

I've had to transfer all my stuff back to my old phone in order to send my new one back for a replacement ☹ Ruby's not having a bad week thanks Owl. She's done a lot of working from home. The last chemo sesh is a week today so once she is past the following 10 days or so when she feels very poorly she has no reason to dread the next session coz there won't be one! 👍 Then it's just a case of waiting for her immune system to be restored. Very grey and wet here today.

So Owl is about to do a factory re-set on her phone. Everyone think good thoughts for a succesful outcome.

Owl is having laptop and phone problems and can't get on here. She can access FB and Messenger if anyone needs to contact her.

Henry is going to my friends for fostering on Thursday 👍 I'm watching Vivienne Westwood spouting off such a load of rubbish on BBC news about Julian Assange. She is making a ridiculous spectacle of herself. She's of the same ilk as those anti vaxxers and conspiracy theorists on FB. They are terminally stupid. It would be laughable if it wasn't so alarming. How do they hold down jobs and negotiate life with no critical thinking skills?

The home check is sorted. Henry's hopefully going to friends of mine who stepped up to help. Nice to see the rescue sticking to procedure though 👍🙂 May has a new permanent home - in fact there was more than one would-be adopter who applied for her, both eminently suitable so the rescue people had a hard decision to make.

Does anyone know anyone near Keighley in Yorkshire who could do a homecheck this week? It's for a temporary foster home for my Henry.

That's what I was thinking of Owl and Eve - thank you! I've seen the film before, a long time ago, which is why the name Tawny Pipit registered, only I couldn't make the connexion. The weather has changed dramatically here and the sun is out and the sky is blue.

Eve I'm glad to hear you enjoyed getting out even if you didn't like the chips. I can't stand olives. I start bowking at just the sight of one. I've heard of a Tawny Pippit but wouldn't know one if I fell over it. Wasn't the name given to a steam train or a beer or in the title of a book - or SOMETHING. It's grey and rainy here but rather humid.

Karen I hope you get to go for lots of visits when your friends move 👍 Owl just give us plenty of warning if we all need to buy hats! I hope Philip has got his tech difficulties sorted. I've got in the shower with my slippers and my glasses on - not at the same time though because that would be silly.

Morning all. A bit drizzly and grey here.