Badgerdoodledandy!

I appear to have been going down with a cold the last couple of days. Davies was coughing a lot last week and had a slightly runny nose but we put it down to the air con in the car drying his throat and a combination of hayfever and playing with water giving him a runny nose. It would appear not though. Today Tarly and I have both also been runny of nose and I am feeling distinctly pants. 🙁 Huge apologies if we infected anyone with Goddard Lurgy on our TOTN too.

First thing Davies and I took Malice to the vets. She was kept in for the day while they tube fed her through her nose, injected her a few times with various things and handed her back 6 hours later with an invoice for £35. She’s due back again on Thursday to have her sewn up eye unsewn – which no doubt will come with a further invoice. 🙁 They were pleased with her progress though, have given us food to be diluted and squirted into her mouth with a syringe and a general chat about how amazing it is that she is alive at all given the state she arrived at them in and how she is one tough cat who is intent on using up all nine of her lives before she finally calls it a day! 🙂 She’d been found at a petrol station (the nearest one would be a ten minute walk for me and crosses the main road :shock:) and brought in by a very upset woman who couldn’t believe how many cars were just driving past a clearly dying animal but didn’t leave any contact details so I’ve no way of thanking her. I thought about the local paper but Ady reckons it’ll just open a flood of people claiming to have been her and hoping for a reward (I could needle felt them something perhaps! 😉 ). Her non-sewn-up eye is looking clearer every day and I thought when Ady took a photo of her the other day the flash made the pupil dilate so I think there is still hope of some vision. Fingers crossed and we wait and see I guess. Davies and I chatted about all sorts of things on the drive home – he’d had Malice in her carrier on his lap on the way there and been giving a comforting monologue to her as we went to calm and comfort her which was very cute. On the way back we chatted about stuff the vet had said, some of my own ‘when I were a lass’ stories and finally I told him about how me, Ady and our friends who have since moved to Ireland played a very silly round of pitch and putt at the park we drove past for Ady’s birthday when I was pregnant with Davies. I remember loving those sort of stories when I was a child and D & S seem to aswell. On the long drive home last week I was talking to Scarlett about how she was inside my tummy once – someone that seems ever less possible as time goes by…

Once home Ady did loads of garden stuff, tidying up, a couple of runs to the tip, some strimming and so on. The children played inside and out, watched a couple of films and disgraced themselves by throwing sand at the lounge windows just after Ady had cleaned them inside and out (Ros, you’re redundant! 😉 ). I wrapped an ebay parcel and Tarly and I walked to the post office to send it on it’s way which was a lovely half hour. She talks constantly that child. Much of it simply chatter, but all relevant and with astonishing detail. She is very easily distracted from her topic as Joyce witnessed last week and can easily be sent off on a tangent. Actually I suppose she talks the equivalent of my blog posts really! 😳 😆 She brought two handbags along for the journey with a small selection of soft toys packed in them and two tissues for blowing her nose which we had to stop so she could do every few minutes. She knows the name of loads of plants and flowers though and is very observant. Ady’s car was collected and he was presented with a courtesy car of a two door Corsa – and I thought the Golf was small! On the upside we aren’t able to go far this week anyway due to Malice and because it is petrol it does mean we can fill my car up on his petrol card and use that instead if we want to go out. 🙂 Clearly I won’t be driving it!

Walking home we made friends with a ginger tom which followed us for quite some distance. Tarly was all for bringing him home so we could have ‘three cats Mummy’ and I was starting to think we might need to shoo him back to where he’d come from for fear of him roaming too far and getting lost, when some other people walked by in the other direction and he started to follow them instead. 😆 When we got home we made some tissue paper flowers from an ELC kit that’s been kicking around for ages, Davies played with the geomags and even put them all away himself and then I had to go and collect Malice while Ady gave them their tea.

When I got back Davies and I went off to Badgers. We’d not planned to be here today obviously – we were supposed to be at Barbara’s 🙁 – so they were not expecting us, but having come home it seemed silly for D not to go. He had a great time as usual, I enjoyed my hours peace reading in the car and he surprised me by bringing out a ticket to where he’d liked to go on holiday. He’d chosen America but a Centerparcs holiday 😆 but what really amazed me was that the train on the front was clearly not his work and he said someone had helped him with it! This is Davies, who draws at home on pages and pages of paper every moment of the day! It is one of his biggest ‘things’, not to mention something he is really quite good at. I made nothing of it but did wonder if it was a confidence thing for him or whether he just likes someone helping him.

Davies has got into a new routine of sleeping late and waking late – which sort of suits me and fits in with my own body clock really, whereas Ady and Tarly are more larks than owls. So he’s only just gone to sleep, but despite that, been as it’s my turn to be up with our lark in the morning and I’m feeling pretty lousy I’ll be off to bed myself I reckon.