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Cinny91

N.I.M wrote: »

Bloomin heck Cinny, winter is coming much?

It's all just one big coincidence I SWEAR. Turns out he's only 5 weeks, his birthday is Feb 10th. Weighs 2.86kg already and eats like a horse! Took him to the vets today and she says he's pretty much perfect, we signed him onto this 'best start' plan where they bundle everything up all the necessary puppy jabs/treatments plus extras for £85. Then I came home to £85 scrap money. :money:

He's called Ryder, Ruby. After Zack Ryder because we are that sad!

N.I.M

Cinny91 wrote: »

It's all just one big coincidence I SWEAR. Turns out he's only 5 weeks, his birthday is Feb 10th. Weighs 2.86kg already and eats like a horse! Took him to the vets today and she says he's pretty much perfect, we signed him onto this 'best start' plan where they bundle everything up all the necessary puppy jabs/treatments plus extras for £85. Then I came home to £85 scrap money. :money:

He's called Ryder, Ruby. After Zack Ryder because we are that sad!

Scrap money? You goin out doin a rag'n'bone round on the scooter these days?

Shouldnt you have called him Paddy/Patrick given the day thats in it?

How big is he gonna get?

archersluck

Aww cinny, so cute!
Staying in a hostel with two resident dogs, who are about to become proud parents tonight or tomorrow hopefully. She is fit to burst, can't wait to see the pups!

Cinny91

Haha, not a chance. I'd be stealing someone elses 'spot' and would most likely get petrol bombed.

Honestly, we're not sure. He could be anything between the average husky and malamute heights, so 22-25" at withers. His weight could be between 25-35kg. So we're just preparing for the biggest!

OH is his favourite though, he'll take off to find him and falls a sleep in seconds on his knee. I'm for biting, and fetching food. When I came downstairs earlier he carried on howling for a bit like 'I didn't want you'

Aww, I'm sure the puppies will be lovely Archer! What type of dogs are they?

Birdie85

Awww Cinny he really is so gorgeous! I actually squeaked a little at the photo!

Those neighbours do sound crazy Ruby, hope the owner of the cottage gets in touch to apologise! Is there anywhere you can leave a review of it to warn other people about not parking in the allocated spot for fear of upsetting the bat-crap crazy neighbour lady!!! :eek:

Talking of crazy ladies, I went to a Papercraft Extravaganza on Sunday (aka fair) and woe betide anyone who gets between an old lady and a bargain. Elbows (and insults) were flying!

wendz86

Aww he is too cute Cinny!

Ruby - that cottage sounds like a bit of a nightmare with the neighbours. I would definately be complaining.

Birdie - sounds a bit mad! Got to love old ladies hehe.

I am off work this morning as Poppy has her development check. Glad i only have to work this afternoon as we have all been struck down by illness and my throat is killing. Poppy has been sleeping awfully this weekend due to illness and teething.

Dinah93

Morning everyone, hope nice weekends were had all round.

I had my first accupuncture/reflexology on Saturday. It was quite relaxing until she stuck a needle in the arch of my foot causing a fire like feeling and my foot to shoot up and kick her. Apparently that point relates to my kidneys. She told me afterwards I'd probably need to pee all day as she'd done a lot of work on my something or other system... instead I came home and forgot to drink for the rest of the day! She's got me booked in twice again this week, she pushed for 3 times but my medicash policy will only cover 2 more appointments before April 1st, so I'm actually thinking of cancelling one of these. No idea if it's doing anything anyway, it's just all worth a punt.

I've contacted medicash as I don't know my new policy limits after April 1st. I know they're changing everything about, but the levels on the web don't seem to relate to what I'm paying. What I really want to know is how much I'll be getting for optical for the year, nights in hospital, and on the off chance I get to my year's anniversary, childbirth.

Should really have gone to hospital last night, bp was running at a fairly consistent 160/113 type level... way above the 150/100 I'm supposed to go in at if it stays there for 6 hours. I didn't monitor for the full 6 hours as 4 hours took me to 10pm, and we made the decision that I should go in. I went to get my hospital notes to call up to tell them I was coming, and I just burst into tears. I hate being in there so much, it's lonely and time slows down as you just wait for visiting hour/lunchtime/the next time they come and take all your fluids. Daft as it sounds we'd just changed all the bedding to nice freshly washed and ironed stuff, and I was looking forward to snuggling up with NIM, watching an episode on 4od, a bit of our homemade fudge cake, and just having a quiet evening. In the end I didn't go down as NIM said I was only going to make myself worse being so upset, and rightly or wrongly he didn't think I'd see a doctor until rounds this morning, so they wouldn't do anything anyway. I'll be keeping an eye on it throughout today but I do expect I'll be back down there either today or after the midwife tomorrow.

We had a really nice mother's day though. We got up yesterday morning and started baking together, but I only made a summer fruit cheesecake before becoming more of a director than a do-er. NIM made white bread rolls, a sundried tomato gluten free loaf, and a gluten free lemon drizzle cake, while I sat on a stool, read out instructions, and chopped the veggies for the kebabs. We then went over to mums with our supplies, plus a load of bbq bits, and did a nice family mothers day bbq in the garden, as grandad wasn't well enough to leave the house. Most importantly she seemed to really enjoy the day, even if my brother was his usual scatty self and actually had me (well, NIM because he's awesome) going to the shops to get him flowers on the morning of mother's day, as he hadn't thought of it until saturday night... grrr, some of us had already gone to the nice florist in town on Saturday morning and wouldn't have had to go to Tesco for their sorry offerings with all the other shamefaced men because we're the organised child.

Grandad is getting worse quite quickly. He still doesn't have a proper diagnosis, just a 'we think it's a tumour, we don't know if it's benign or malignant'. He has another scan today, this one makes him radioactive so I'm not allowed to see him all week, mum seems under the impression that if I do the baby will start to glow. He's so forgetful now, and very easily confused - mum and dad had to take his wardrobe away as he was getting worked up about where his clothes were - now he has a hanging rail and just shoes on the floor as he seems a lot better being able to see them. He also has no idea of dates (he was telling NIM it should have been grandma's birthday on Saturday, when she was actually end of April), he doesn't remember to eat or drink, and he can't stand up to get to the loo on his own most days. He certainly can't stand up to cook, wash or iron clothes, go to the shops etc.

Despite all this my parents have been turned down for attendance allowance (which appears to be like carers allowance but for the elderly), as they have been assessed as him not needing care. I'm going to post on the benefits board later and ask for some help, as they can't both work at present unless they hired a carer to come in for him. If dad has to go out the house for meetings for more than 2-3 hours he gets mums friend from the next village to come and check on him, or he takes him to his brother's house (who at over 80 with a bad heart isn't the best solution when granddad collapses).

Mum was talking last night about giving up her job next year or the one after to become a child-minder. This is clearly driven by the desire to be the one caring for our baby (mum nicknames her Daisy, so if I ever call her that it's only a nickname, not what we're actually naming her!) when I'm in work, but she'd need to have a full complement of children to get anywhere close to making up a deputy headteacher's salary. It would also mean she was working from home so could keep an eye on granddad if dad starts working. I like the idea that she'd be the one looking after our child the 3 days I couldn't, and I would have thought as a former teacher with over 25 years early years experience, from an 'outstanding' ofsted school background she'd be quite sought after though and it wouldn't take too long to get enough children to make a reasonable income from it. This is probably just another one of her ideas though, mum isn't known for focussing on anything long enough to execute it.

Cinny91

Haha! Bless them. Did you get lots of pretty things though Birdie?

That sounds awful with your Grandad Dinah Must be so upsetting for you too. To be fair, I would have stayed at home too. How're you feeling this morning? Keeping everything crossed that you don't have to go in today, I can't even imagine how annoying it must be.

I'm in proud Mum mode at the moment. So here's some more photos! Got him to sleep through the night last night, and came downstairs to nicely used puppy pads so I've decided he's a puppy genius. Cashing in some premium bonds today so I can pay for Ryder's insurance, lifetime vaccinations and bulk buy some puppy food/pads without totally emptying the bank. Figure we have enough food in for him for the next 2 maybe 3 weeks anyways.

ETA: Didn't see your post, Wendz! Hope you and Poppy are feeling better soon, sounds pretty bad!

Dinah93

Ooh I forgot to mention, I got a bay tree for the garden yesterday 'from the baby' delivered by a rather sheepish looking NIM. I love things I can plant, as if I manage not to kill them I love that I still have them to enjoy for years to come.

Birdie85

Hope you feel better soon Wendz, and that you all get a good night's sleep tonight!

Hope you manage to stay out of the hospital Dinah, poor thing, not surprised you got so upset about the thought of going back

Sorry your Grandad isn't getting any better. When do your Mum and Dad go to Venice? What's the plan for him when they're away? The childminding idea is a good one, weren't you playing with that idea too a while back? You could do it together

It sounds like Ryder is a puppy genius Cinny! Or he's just teasing by being good one night and now you'll have to spend the next year trying to train him to do it again! He is very cute

I did get loads of nice papercrafty things, MIL gave me my birthday money so I came home with enough to entertain me for a good year, OH just looked at the stash which was on the floor when he came in and sighed and rolled his eyes!