suzeanna

For heavens sake woman! you've got a lovely new house, and a lovely new blokey..and you want good health TOO? there's no pleasing some people!

Just make sure they give you crutches to go home with...the useless physio who came to the ward the day I and two others had ours done didn't, and we all ended up with problems from trying to walk when we shouldn't have!

Two faced people infuriate me!!

So sorry about Tabitha (lovely name)

I've found a quick way to lose weight...develop a humungous mouth ulcer which makes anything you try to eat feel as if you are crunching broken glass porridge for breakfast, soup for lunch, more porridge for dinner...lost two pounds in two days!

I was born just after the war, and lost my dad was I was six with TB which he developed while in a field hospital somewhere abroad. (Second world war, before any rude people ask!) I wasn't alone in being fatherless, plenty of other boys and girls were in the same boat, but I don't remember any of this general lawlessness that abounds today. We went to a typical Yorkshire village school infants in one room juniors in the other, and I can remember us all being in trouble for pinching apples from an orchard, and we were all lined up with hands out to get the cane. We moved from there when I was seven, so I cant have been that old. The headmistress was my mum's best friend, and I remember thinking that she wouldn't hit me...wrong!! we learned pretty early that there were rules, and breaking them brought retribution. Nowadays the kids attitude seems to be that if you've got it and they want it, they make sure they take it. When it dawns on the loony liberals that legalising drugs, turning a blind eye to domestic violence, and letting children have everything their own way we might manage to turn this country around, but I have a feeling it will be a long wait.

Carpets are down! the dining room looks nice...not sure I like the sitting room one now though oh well..it will grown on me, hopefully.

So glad that you are coming back into the sunshine Mel and Trev...you are very very lucky to have such caring friends, and they are equally lucky to have you.

My new carpets to replace the sodden ones when we were flooded are coming today! maybe then Dylan will stop creeping around downstairs as if he's on an ice rink, looking worried because the house doesn't look/smell/feel right!

Thats easy Mel...eat a dodgy curry, you'll get it alright!

My OH has eczema, and dry skin. After years of using Diprobase, given him by the doctor, he was referred to a dermatology clinic at hospital and found out he was allergic to it...so they gave him Doublebase, and its brilliant. He has steroid creams of various strengths to be used in conjunction with it as and when necessary, but finds he doesn't need them now most of the time. My poor daughter (not his, they are both just unlucky!) has had eczema from babyhood, ended up in hospital several times a year bandaged from head to foot. She's 42 now, and its all come back really badly, she's absolutely distraught about it. Its depressing that after all these years they still can't sort it out.

You could always shave it and then buy a merkin. (no, thats not a mixure of a meerkat and a jerkin.) Sounds as if your life has definitely gone from the ridiculous to the sublime Claz! is this what you were told to expect in the reading you had some while back? to poorly people, haven't read right back.

Oh she's delightful! I wish you many happy years together!

My Dylan is a moderately easy dog. He doesn't pinch food (well, not often anyway), he's not destructive when left, doesn't dig up the garden, and you wouldn't know he was there in the car. His only fault is he can be reactive to some other dogs, but if they rarah back at him he hides behind you. He's fine at night apart from pinching most of the duvet, and when I had my little poms he never deliberately hurt them. Trod on them when he didn't notice them, yes, but not on purpose. He does chase cats though!

Nooo...she's not nearly so hairy..though her habit of peeling bananas with her feet is a little worrying!

A BOTTLE of wine?? surely you meant a case? Nice to see you and your lovely dogs

Sadly for every ten dogs rescued, there are probably twenty to take their place I suppose the only hope is that the younger generation will be taught that their lifestyle and the way they treat their dogs is cruel...but I won't hold my breath. I hope and pray that poor bitch who was run over died instantly and didn't suffer. Thank the gods that there are people out there who care for these poor dogs. Just out of interest because I really don't know...and not meaning this in any way to be "anti religion" ...but Spain and Ireland both have very bad names for animal cruelty and are both staunch Roman Catholic countries in the main. I know Hindus venerate dogs, but Muslims consider them unclean, don't know what the Catholic church's take on them is? The population of most Catholic countries deeply revere the Pope and follow his teachings, if he could be persuaded to say something in defence of these poor dogs saying how they should be cared for and condemning those who treat them cruelly maybe they would listen?

There was an article in the paper the other day, saying that a church clock in a village has had to be silenced, as incomers were complaining that it chimed during the night so obviously the fact that something was there first has no bearing if someone complains. It must be very worrying, not to say potentially expensive, for your friend.

I only just saw this....I'm so sorry

Sleep well Poppy, you have been such a brave girl xxx I hope your other dogs can bring you some comfort Wendy

Vodaka...sorry if this sounds heartless, but if he's driving when he's had too much to drink he should be reported to the police. How would your parents feel if he smashed into someone else and killed them? At 20 he should have at least some sense...he's not a child. I dont mind driving over bridges, but I hate going under bridges when a train is going over the top, I have visions of it collapsing on top of me! (not that I'd know much about it if it did.)

A friend of mine had a hysterectomy and she said she felt sooo much better BUT...I went every day and fed and exercised her dogs for her for six weeks. She is a very "get up and do it regardless" type but she couldn't do that. If you have your uterus removed..without the ovaries being taken..you can't have periods because the discharge comes from the uterus, not the ovaries. I think if you have the lot, you are given HRT (if you want it) as your hormone production will vanish along with the ovaries, but if ovaries are kept you dont need HRT.

Dylan is most definitely daddy's boy! (oh how I miss my little Misty pom)

to all who need them and for Claz...the house looks great (and where are the pics of the new man?) Loss adjusters called this morning, they have approved payment for my new carpets to replace the flood damanged ones have to wait a month for the first fitting date though, but after the 22nd August no more concrete floors, cant wait!

What puzzled me about it was he said that when he works, he doesn't get enough money, so its not worth working. I thought the new system was that if there was a job suitable for you, and you didn't take it, that you lost your benefit? Apparently not in his case!