Better…

Malice is still doing OK. Not really eating or drinking but fine in herself and getting more adventurous with where she’ll wander. I’m still holding out a bit of hope for some vision but that might well be me and my wishful thinking. We’ll see what the vets say tomorrow but fingers crossed we can keep her at home and maybe try some syringe feeding / watering. She’s clearly far happier here than she would be there and I would imagine that is the most important thing (not to mention continuing cost of residential treatment…).

So we’ve stayed home today. Ady and Davies had a lie-in, Scarlett and I did not :roll:. I’ve done baking (peanut butter cookies and chocolate fairy cakes – peanut butter cookies recipe called for way too much peanut butter so although they are lovely you *have* to drink them with a slug of milk between every nibble and the kids don’t like them – Ady loves them though, oh peanut butter fiend that he is 🙂 ). Ady’s done some gardening and emptied his car out ready for collection (we hope) tomorrow along with delivery of some sort of courtesy car. When the rain from this morning cleared up I did several loads of washing and finally unpacked and put away all the stuff from last week’s holiday.

The children have played with the Film Education W&G disc that Kirsty lent us which has been an instant hit (thanks Kirsty, have not tried to copy it yet, will have a go tomorrow) and Davies proved really quite proficient at putting sound effects to a clip from the film and when I sat with him and read the script he was easily able to construct a story board from the stills images to choose from – so up his street. 🙂

They have also played together loads, done plasticine, eaten popcorn and watched Chicken Run and been out in the garden with Ady. Ady and the children also went through all our videos and we now have a pile ready to go on ebay. Our plan for this coming week as Ady is still off work is to go through the loft, garage and cupboards and ebay everything we can find that we no longer need. A massive declutter and money making exercise which is probably the best possible investment of our time really given all our current possible plans for the future.

Am just about to serve up dinner (roast lamb smeared with mint and rosemary, served with roast potatoes (tossed in flour, salt, rosemary and olive oil to make them extra crispy), carrots and parsnips roasted in honey and rosemary, fresh peas I popped from the pods myself, yorkshire puddings (courtesy of Sainsburys Basics range 😉 ) and gravy made with mint sauce for those of you interested in such things 😆 ) and that’s about yer lot!