Abby

Ach the baby's alright... I suppose. Will do a hello again thread soon. Nice to be here

I have worn myself out Not sleeping enough for two nights hasn't helped and I did get loads done today. Am now horribly behind on food prep and just shoving some stuff down my neck while DYlan eats his dinner painfully slowly before diving back into evening food. Can't WAIT until I arrive in Oxfordshire tomorrow for a week's R&R

That;s interesting Blackmagic, thanks I've just remembered a couple of weeks ago one of the customers said that as Dylan got up he couldn't put weight on one of his back legs, and flicked it several times before he finally was happy to use it. Could just be sleeping awkwardly but I'm just not sure

Happy Birthday Alex, have a relaxed evening

have been investigating the state of the outside walls of our spare flat. It's more like swiss cheese than solid wall Still have now filled several gaping crevases and cleared up the mess some orrible critter made chewing my wicker basket How much chocolate do you think is too much when you're pregnant

Hmm, stuff to think about there, thanks guys. THe thing is, it seems at the moment to be general stiffness, not just in the shoulder he huirt I think it's going to have to be a check-up with the vet before deciding on anything. Thanks

Only one more day before me holibobs Got loads to do today, hence being active at thsi ungodly time on a Saturday morning. Sadly I seem to have developed a sore throat and slightly blocked nose As having had a cold for the entire month of December wasn't enough.

Afternoon Tis a beautiful day here but very cold again. OH is destroying another ceiling and I MUST only come on here as a little reward for each of my many tasks I achieve Trudi - do you think the physio has helped enough? Owl - I'm thinking it is a good thing your mum has had a mild stroke rather than suffering from dimentia? I hope she continues to improve It sounds very like the mother of a lady here in the village who went through a very confused and vulnerable period after she broke her femur a couple of years ago, and they were worried she had suffered a head trauma but finally decided it was a mild stroke. She is much improved now. Now I have my norty coffee I am off to put dirty clothes in the machine and clean clothes away in cupboards instead of storing them in laundry bags around the flat

Dylan is a 5 year old bearded collie whippet cross. 18 months ago he had a very had shoulder injury that took several months to heal and I don't think will ever fully be the same again. For several months after he would be stiff in that shoulder occasionally after walks or if he'd been asleep in the same position a long time. It was almost certainly caused by him pulling hand brake turns on the beach The last 3ish months though I've noticed he gets stiff more often, though it never seems to last long. It is defo worse after beach walks (sorry, not going to give them up, it is his absolute favourite place in the world) and it could weel be made worse by his insistence on lying down fully in the sea, despite the baltic temperatures I do try to always have his equafleece in the car so he keeps warm on the way home, but although he is a tad young I wondered if I should consider some supplements? I don't think there's anything else wrong and it's not severe and doesn't happen as much on other kinds of walks. Any thoughts? He is due his booster soon so I will get the vet to check him out then.

Ouch Amy hope it stops hurting soon. I yam a bit excited as I think I have found the cot that I want for a good secondhand price in a place I can get to! Bit of a feat considering it was discontinued a while ago and doesn't come up for sale often and certainly not round here I am going to see it Sunday so fingers crossed it is indeed the right one. I should be down in the kitchen starting dinner but I yam tired and just want to doze on the sofa

Ouch Amy hope it stops hurting soon. I yam a bit excited as I think I have found the cot that I want for a good secondhand price in a place I can get to! Bit of a feat considering it was discontinued a while ago and doesn't come up for sale often and certainly not round here I am going to see it Sunday so fingers crossed it is indeed the right one. I should be down in the kitchen starting dinner but I yam tired and just want to doze on the sofa

Thanks guys In our last place the landlord used a poison in the neighbouring flat which made the rats go off to find water before dying, so I was considering that. THe problem with filling in holes is that we are renovating our building and it's in such shoddy condition that there will be about 4000 holes Not sure what to do about that. I will try to figure out what parts of the floor they are definitely using first before deciding what to d. They are driving me mad and I'm worried that (a) they will eat through something important and (b) eventually they will find their way downstairs into the pub at which point I will probably faint. BTW my loaf went horribly wrong this morning. I forgot to put the paddle in the bottom of the breadmaker pan so nothing got stirred and all I ended up with was a flat brick of unmixed water and flour. Duh.

Morning Woke up stupidly early and couldn't get back to sleep. Am knackered and a tad grumpy. We have critters living in our floor and I am going to have to sort it out. Have had a look in several places but can't see signs, but hear them all over

OH is knocking seven bells out of the fitted cupboards in the spare room. They're putting up a good fight (ironic in a house that is terribly built, the fitted cupboards are sturdier that some of the outside walls ) but he will win in the end. On Saturday two of his friends are coming up for the week and they will start building us a nice noo bedroom and spare bedroom, so OH has a rather looming deadline for stripping everything old out THis afternoon I am doing the pub which may or may not involve a league darts match depending on whether they can get out of town due to the floods

Morning Glad you're feeling better Sam, but sorry Missus Murtle you are still in bed. Hope you feel better soon I have just gotten up (late night, not just lazy, honest!) and seen the river is completely back up to flood level Env Agency website says our bridge into town will be out of action within the next two hours so I suppose I should get a shufty on and see if it's open still, though looking at the state of the river here I'd be astonished if it was. Sadly I need to go so it's the long way round for us today. Don't need much but pub's gotta have burgers and I have no mince Off to prod hubby into action...see you later

Happy Birthday for yesterday Jules

Morning Poor you Missus Murtle, does indeed sound like flu - are you feeling any better yet? And lots of 'get it sorted please dentist' thoughts going to Sam I am supposed to be tidying the front room so that when our lovely neighbour comes over later to help us plan our first phase flat renovations he is not absolutely horrified with the state of the place

I do and will happily post it when I have sorted out batteries for the camera...I had a little incident earlier that means I have no battery charger and only dead batteries

Hello Haven't finished reading back yet but hope you're all doing okay Now I am more with it, I am attempting to sort out all the things that haven't been doing the last four months, which turns out to be quite a lot Scoffed two massive and delicious scones earlier so my bump is now hooge while I digest

Well I am now 20 weeks and our scan on Tuesday showed everything was just fine and dandy with the little wriggler. Nickname is now Fidget on account of all the movement, especially when someone is trying to look at them on scans or with a heartbeat dongley thingy Also, looks like we're having a little boy Would have been very happy with either, but we both really wanted to know and it looked fairly conclusive to us! I am happily pretty much stopped vomiting, except for occasionally and if I do a car journey over 1 hour. After the first few months I can cope with that easily. Am off to Oxfordshire for a week in 10 days time which will be lovely except for the 4 hour car journey . Still, train would take forever and I can't be doing Sunday train travel anyway. Plus, went on a train in December and that made me sick too...

I'm shocked! Only just arrived? THat was sent well before Christmas - I'm so sorry But I'm glad it's with you now and I hope Lady has fun with it Sorry for the lack of card...I forgot! Glad the piggies liked their presents - sorry about the lack of crimbo packaging and card but a last minute crisis with deliveries not arriving here meant I had to get it sent straight to you

It's 20 week scan day! I yam a tad excited at seeing the baby again Fingers crossed for a good view so we can find out what variety it is (my nephews are convinced I'm having a puppy )

We've got snow Again and can't get out the village. I've had enough of it now. Morning by tthe way