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Great news Suzeanna. Enjoy your holiday.

I think we all have strange goings on when it comes to ancestors. I found out I had a many times removed great grandad who was hung for sheep stealing. When you consider the poverty in those days I expect there were a lot of similar incidents and people being transported.

Alex would like to be a fly on the wall when you contact the garage with the same fault yet again. It is all so b inconvenient and time consuming. Glad they picked up the rental car with no reported dents.

I had a good laugh at that one. Glad all went went at your Mum's memorial service Owl.

Robert Burns was such a rake that most of Scotland could have been related to him in one way or another.

Sleep tight little cat.

So pleased you felt better after a good sleep Owl. I always think the world seems to be a much better place after a good sleep. Hope all goes off smoothly at the funeral with no unnecessary upsets.

Suzeanna Hope you get the all clear soon. Marion Your Archie reminds me so much of my Bonzo 2, just a bit bigger that's all. He has the same full of mischief look. Griff You are doing so well managing the two dogs now. Taking only one to classes will be much easier on you and them. Sam and Mark You have done so well in everything you have achieved since you set up Dogstar. Hope the snow continues to skirt round here

How lucky your Archie is with his dog walkers.

I am thinking about replacing some of my carpeting with cushion floor and rugs. If I see a pattern I like I might just do that.

Good luck with choosing a new mattress. I need to do the same but have only had mine a very short time. It is now too hard after I had surgery. I chose the firmest mattress in the shop when I bought it as I have back problems. Charlie hugs

I have the same trouble when having a conversation and I just have to mind search until I find a suitable word and not always the word I am looking for!! Funnily enough I am absolutely fine when I write a letter or email.

Good luck with the menopause. Mine was horrendous. I went through it at 44 - just stopped having periods altogether after about two years of having them every two weeks. I am now 70 and could still tell you when I would be having a period as I still get PMS!! Not always, just some months. I also get the munchies on a couple of days which was also an indicator that I was due on. Good on you for shouting at the man who was hitting his staffie. I did the same when I was about 12 and got told to 'go away' so I did and walked the few yards to where I knew the RSPCA inspector lived and let him deal with it. Luckily he was home at the time and I saw his van at the door. Doubt the guy would do it again or swear at anyone the way he swore at me.

Good luck with your vaccination plans Sam and Mark and all your team. From little acorns large oak trees grow.

What a horrible man and I would worry about what, who else, he might shoot given the right circumstances. I would like to see his licence revoked when it comes up for renewal. The last pet we had to help over the bridge cost us almost £70 to be humanely put to sleep by a qualified vet. Could they not have done that if they considered it totally necessary. I would have thought that one snap in no way meant a death sentence. I am sitting here covered in bites and scratches from a new pup and I still love the very bones of him. He just needs to learn that we humans are fragile!!

So sorry for your loss Owl but in a way it is a release when the person we knew no longer exists. How nice to just slip away like that. I hope I am that lucky when my time comes.

Nothing quite like a death in the family to bring out the very worst in people. When my Mum died she hadn't seen my brother in over 20 years but guess who phoned me after the funeral. Not for it, but after it. He was working on the day!!! There was very little money left from the sale of the family home and since I was on the building society book I paid all bills and dispersed what was left to where my Mum would have wanted it to go. I made sure my cousin, who had been better than a son to my Mum got something to help with a holiday to NZ. I gave my brother the large half of what was left and didn't contact him again. He died not that much later and I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when he ended up wherever my Dad was as he would have given him such a roasting over his awful treatment of my Mum. I did hear later that his wife wanted to know what I had done with the money, but there was nothing that I didn't share in my brother's favour. What I gave to my cousin I took from my share. Reminds me that I need to make a better will but wonder if it is really worth it when you read of some of the awful things that happen even when there is a will.

Although I would like to take the credit I only lost some of the weight from dieting. The rest just dropped off due to the big C. Had a kidney removed and appear to be fine for now, so need clothes that fit and are not hanging off me. Have bagged up lots and given it to the charity shops but some I plan to try and sell on Ebay and donate any money I might make to some of the dog charities.

Many thanks to Snow for pointing me in the directions of the Yours people. I have made several good purchases in their sale and am well pleased with the quality of all I have received. I was needing some clothes that fitted after having lost 5 stone. I was fed up going about in clothes that were at least 4 sizes too big for me.

Sam and Mark please keep safe.

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Thanks for the heads up on Yours. I have just been and spent £50 ' just because I'm worth it.' I have lost weight and needed some clothes that fit. Paid £1.49 extra for a free returns label just in case any of it doesn't fit. Thought that was a great bargain.

Glad wee Deagan is on the mend. Evie sounds as if she would be a better medication that any antidepressant.

Hope little Deagan is o.k.

Alex it is absolutely awful having to get up every day and go and do a job where you hate the conditions. Keep and eye open for something else and escape as soon as you can. Life is too short to feel miserable at work since it is such a huge chunk of our day.