Picking up…

First the good news from today; Malice has started eating food and drinking water herself. This is a Very Good Thing – if for no other reason than it means no more expensive vets trips so she can have nasal tubes inserted. 🙂 We had to put the bowls right infront of her nose and coax her a fair bit but we managed it and she had a really long drink and a fairly good amount of food too. Hurrah! 🙂 She’s back to the vets for the day tomorrow to have her eye unsewn and see what lurks beneath and I’ll be finding out what exactly the state of play is with the cm of wire sticking out from her chin keeping her jaw in place too and whether it is coming out or being trimmed and staying in forever as I’ve not actually asked about that yet. I also think she is getting some level of vision back too. She is ‘looking’ towards the big windows in our lounge which makes me think she has at least some sort of light and shade recognition coming through.

In other news we’ve been doing ever more gardening and garden sorting today including taking down some coal bunkers outside our back door, well OK Ady has, I’ve been reading my library book! 🙂 We went to Paradise Park today at the children’s request, not for long as we go there so often it is a cursory nod to most of the attractions and we wanted to not leave Malice for too long but we had a nice walk round and a picnic lunch in the gardens, Ady thrashed me at table football and air hockey on the amusements 😳 Davies impressed me and amazed Ady by getting every dinosaur right in a name the dinosaur by pointing to it quiz there which we’ve never done before and even Tarly demonstrated lots of retained knowledge on some of the stuff exhibited there.

We popped home to check the cats and collect an old mobile phone handset for my Dad. My parents have gradually accepted there are benefits to carrying mobile phones so every time we upgrade a handset they get the upgrade before last (we like to have a spare each – we brought old phones with current sim cards to Kessingland so that we didn’t fret too much about leaving them in a damp tent or dropping them in the sea!) – so my Dad now has a fairly decent camera phone with all sorts of mod cons which he will use to make and recieve phone calls in the event of an emergency :lol:.

Spent an hour or so with Dad and then came home. The children had pizza and garlic bread for tea again and we had pizza for tea too.

Forgot to mention two nature related incidents yesterday – one was Ady bringing in a spider carrying a bulging egg sac with her for the children to see yesterday which was really interesting and the other was the children spending ages collecting snails – they got about 8 and setting them off up the wall of the house in a race 😆

Tomorrow we’re planning a walk up the downs – something I’ve not done since I was in my teens and the children are only barely old enough to think about really. There is a local church dating to the Saxon age which I did a school project on and the children would like to see inside having driven past it for years, also it has a very pretty and full and old graveyard which is always interesting to wander round and read the headstones in.