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Thanks all for your postive comments and warm thoughts. It really does look great up there now and we are making the most of it while the weathers good.I am sitting up there with Dom on and off.

That must be a huge weight off your mind then!!Fantastic news. I know it's not resolved and I really feel for you and Dean(10 passing out in a day.What a nightmare!)but having a brain tumour crossed off must be a relief. I am so angry on your behalf with how little financial help you are getting...when others are on every benefit under the sun and milking the system to their hearts content. If you don't get help soon I'd contact your MP,mate! Things are on the up for me and mine at the moment so I can't complain but from October-March I wouldnt have cared if I'd been struck by lightening tbh. I really hope that things start looking up for you too.

So sorry to hear about Poppy,Wendy. Sweet Dreams beautiful girl.

Hi Ian, I just wanted to let you know that the fabulous Luke and his Leos came along on Sunday and turfed the final corner of Dominics sensory garden and,as I have righted the smashed area now,it all looks fantastic and Dom has spent the majority of the last 2 days sat down there. Luke came along with 4 young workers and set about turfing the garden in blazing hot weather and I have to say I felt really sorry for them and a trifle guilty too.It took them a few hours and it looks fantastic.I have been watering the turf at night and first thing,as advised by Luke,and I am so pleased with it all and I get tears in my eyes when I think about how it looked after the tree fell.(See previous thread) Luke is looking at getting someone to put electric up to the Summerhouse so that Dom can listen to his music,as I'm spending a small fortune in batteries at the mo,and also so that I can plug in his little fountain which is there but not set up yet due to electricity. Anyway...Thank you so much for contacting Luke,Ian,and huge thanks to Luke for caring....and the workers too obviously. The newly turfed area. The turfed area AND the area that was totally written off. Dom making the most of it.(Sealed box is the fountain in front of him!)

Hi Debs, Glad to hear that you are still plodding along. My last year hasnt been great either for numerous reasons so you arent alone,mate....and these things always seem to happen at once,don't they? Anyway....Chin up mate.Let us know how Dean is. Kaye xx

Hi Debs, So sorry to hear that you have all been put through the mill lately. I really hope it all pans out for you.Is there any further developments since you posted last month? Take care and huge hugs, Kaye xx

WOW!! He really is a handsome gent.He looks alot bigger in the new photos than I thought he would be after seeing the first one. Will Libby fail??Is anyone taking bets?

Hi again everyone. My sister,Lynn,has read all your posts,re Jack and asked me if I would post a message on her behalf thanking you all very much for all your supportive messages. She says she is very grateful and it meant alot. The poem is lovely,Pat,and I think she shed a tear or 10 reading it! Best wishes to you all.

I don't see that you had alot of choice! You can't live your lives like that.It's not healthy for anyone. Huge hugs for having to make such a difficult decision.

Thank you so much everyone.It means alot. Hope I'm not boring you but Lynn has just sent me 2 pix she took in the last 24 hours. Jack 12.7.07 Jack and my sisters daughter,Holly 13.7.07

Hi Lorraine, It's lovely to see more recent Tuppence photos. I remember transporting him to you,as the last link,and taking the smilie pic of him on the Oldies site.He is a little gem. I'm so glad that,despite health hiccups,you are still together and happy. Take care and give him a hug from me. Kaye x

I will Michelle,thank you! You know it's going to happen,try and prepare yourself for when it does but it still hits hard. Lynn was just so pleased that she got to spend over a year and a half with him but wished she could have had him longer. He had a fantastic home with her and in the last 6 months Jack had a companion,Ruby,a young Boxer X who Lynn adopted from Many Tears which is a good thing in hindsight.They got on well together despite her being a bouncy fruitcake. Hope you are well. Thank you Clint.

Hi all, I'm afraid that I am posting,for the first time in ages,with very sad news. Gentle Jack,the Labrador X Husky I fostered and my sister adopted went to the Bridge this afternoon. He would have been 15 in the New Year so he did well for a dog of his size really but my sister,Lynn,and her family are devastated and I am also very upset.He will leave a huge gap and be missed so much. His legs have been giving way alot the last few months and the vets had tried everything to help,the last being steroid injections,but he kept collapsing and this last week looked thoroughly miserable.His quality of life had deteriorated and my sister knew it was time. Her and her Fiance held him while he slipped away and he is now at peace. My sister,Lynn,will be mailing the Oldies Club with a fitting tribute to him to put on the Oldies site but she doesnt post on here and quite a few of you knew him or of him so I wanted to update you. RIP handsome boy.Huge hugs and love.

Great pix Cher...I notice that you got the back of me in most pix...I bet that was deliberate!lol It was nice to see you all again...despite the fact that Liz and Mark bottled the walking bit!! ;) It was a shame that a few more people didnt turn up but the ones that did it was great to see.The gorgeous Mike was on form!! Lets make the next one sooner rather than later.

Hi all, I am at last back online. I would just like to say a huge thank you to Ian,Luke,Jazzie and everyone else who has offered and given help.It shows that there are some smashing folk about. The tree is(Unbelievably) still there but the Council have had all the quotes in and have got a firm coming to move it soon.I will be claiming compensation and,for that reason,I need the Council to see what the damage is as the tree is taken. My Fiancee,Jamie,mailed you,Luke as I couldnt get online at all to thank you.I would appreciate some help once the tree has gone.I spent a year doing it before this happened.Thank you Ian for putting Luke in touch.Thank you too Jazzie for the ornaments.I am looking forward to seeing the crocodile. I really am touched....and I'm sure Dom will be very excited to see his new,and hopefully improved,garden!

Wow...It really is a lovely size for her.Worth the money I'd say! I would definately say she is 100% happy with it...Confusion to vegetation in the matter of hours.

Wow he is beautiful!! I really,really hope that there is some other really simple explanation however unlikely that is. Good luck for tomorrow.

Thanks Ian...I am in St Albans.

Wow...That is really lovely.

Thank you so much for all your kind comments. And also for all the suggestions too.I think I will see where we are when the tree is removed,hopefully very soon,and see what the Council suggest/do/give and then if they become 'difficult' I will go to the papers as they can be very awkward if their feathers get ruffled but if they try and shirk responsibility then I won't hesitate. Freecycle is a good idea.I'll look on there. Thanks again everyone.

Shouldnt the title of this be post be changed to Seth is here.....FOREVER!!!! I like old fashioned names too,Kathy,although when I was younger I didnt.It's surprising how your tastes change isnt it?I am going to keep Constance in mind I think...Just in case!!

Poppy is so scrummy! Glad she's home with you now.

Beautufil pix of Poppy on the bed but she looks like she doesnt know what to think about it. I had been looking for a bed exactly like that for Katie but £40 or £50 would be my limit.

A year ago,after finally having a path put in down the bottom of my garden and blocking it off from the dogs,I started work on Dominics Sensory Garden.(If you don't know my son has Muscular Dystrophy and Severe Learning Difficulties and is in a wheelchair.)I spent hours in the garden and spent a fortune buying ornaments,plants and other garden related stuff and Jazzie J very kindly sent me some of his garden ornaments to put in Doms 'Seaside' area. On Tuesday during the snow storm a tree,from a garden that backs onto my neighbour,has blown onto the garden and smashed and ruined half of it,luckily not the seaside area but I have spent the last 2 days crying on and off,not helped by the fact that I have tonsilitis. The girls burst into tears as they are very protective of their brother AND it has also runied their little play area which was only bought and finished 8 months ago.Dominic himself started crying when he came in from school as his bedroom backs onto it so he spotted it straight away.It's scary to think of what would have happened if one of the girls had been on the swing.The main climbing frame is bent sideways and now unstable too. Some pix! Before:- The Seaside bit just after finishing it. The bit that is runined now.This was after just starting it and lots more had been added. After:- The main area now! The play area. The Council are being very sensitive about it and hopefully I will get compensation but it is still upsetting.If it had fallen any other direction it wouldnt have done damage.If it had happened over a year ago then it wouldnt have damaged anything!

I can spot the difference...She is now totally in charge and knows that she's the bees knees!!lol