Daydream fund challenge part 4

Davesnave

Smashing pigglies CTC, which I could see fine, without signing my life away to FB.

Far too tired to say much this evening. We got almost all of the outer leaf of the gable done today, which was....well, far too many blocks!

Then I found myself mowing the lawn....:eek:

Not enough hours, and now they'll mess with the clocks...:mad:

alfie_1

when do the clocks alter.... my darling dad always used to pre warn me [and usually remind me the day after too !!]

choille

Clocks change? God I hate that.....

Gorgeous piggy wiggies CTC.

Just lost all my emails for some reason. I don't understand computers at the best of times, but when I'm tired I just want to kick things when they don't work.

Glad cats are all doing okay. I think the kidney test use to be quite a thing where they squeezed them to access it - or maybe that was a myth.
They do often suffer the kidney problems. I think with them in the wild eating what they caught they didn't need so much to drink as they got their fluid from the wee voles & mices that they ate.

Better_Days

Thanks for posting the piglies CTC, they are soooo active, busy, busy, busy Very nice start to the day watching them.

How's the energy levels today Dave? Do you think you are still having the effect of the flu jab? Mr BD had a flu jab a few years ago and said never again as he felt so ghastly afterwards and had to have time off work.

Old dog is on special food for her kidneys, this is the first 'older' animal that the vet has suggested regularly blood testing. I can see the advantage of it, problems can be picked up before clinical signs are apparent. Don't know how long I will be able to keep her on the k/d as she doesn't really like it much.

Have any of you found that as your dogs get older they don't eat so much in the mornings? We used to split their food equally between morning and evening, but now both of them don't want much for breakfast.

Got a meeting with the patient group and the NHS today, a new improved service was promised in 2009 and we are still waiting.......

lucielle

Lovely piggies, CTC


Fed up as my tyre kept going down, turns out I've cracked another rim.
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lostinrates

Fwiw...testing is MY requirement, with support from the vet. She's been on arthritis meds for about six months and seems fine, but the scientist in me 'likes to know'. It might help make decisions later about drugs/ treatments etc. or decisions about food.

Davesnave

Better_Days wrote: »

How's the energy levels today Dave? Do you think you are still having the effect of the flu jab? Mr BD had a flu jab a few years ago and said never again as he felt so ghastly afterwards and had to have time off work...

lucielle wrote: »

Lovely piggies, CTC
Fed up as my tyre kept going down, turns out I've cracked another rim.
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:jI'm fine now, thanks, BetterDays, but this is the first day off paracetamol. So, what's that, 5 days of feeling below par and sore?

Having had real flu, I'm prepared to go through this again, if needs be, but it won't happen every time, I'm sure.

Had my puncture fixed, lucielle, but noticed that my 2 year old Michelins have cracks in the grooved bit of the tyre. Only on the rear. Not good for a 'Which' best buy, so I shall email photos to Michelin. Might be a bad batch and they may want them for testing....;););).

Yours will be the roads again, eh? So far, my alloys have held up OK, but after 2 years with me, the car rattles a lot more. At least I had the sense to buy one with scratches down the left side!:rotfl:

RAS

Hope you are feeling OK today, Dave. The building work is impressive.

choille - glad to hear from you. Sounds like the weather your way was interesting earlier in the week.

Generally well buffetted here on Tuesday; roads closed in some instances. Fortunately the slight leak on the dormer is OK.

Need permission for changes now we are a conservation area (sigh slightly) so advised that I should put in to remodel dormer, add sunpipes and put velux as one job. Just it is now a bigger research job to sort out PP etc.

Very lively piggies CTC - do not think I recall any as bouncy as that at that age (from my mis-spent youth hanging out on top of the pigpens).

alfie and lir -wishing your puddy tats the best of health; they are lucky to be loved so much.

lostinrates

Aw, what a kind thing to say RAS.

Fwiw, her tests came back literally on the cusp of normal and not. Vet agreed I already feed 'pretty ideally' so I'm going to think about it and read some and see if I can take pretty ideal to ideal feasibly or whether to accept what we do is 'enough' and we have to accept that.

Davesnave

We are finally onto tiling the new roof, but I missed the laying of the first tile as I was doing a fairly massive shop.:( Lifted up the last dozen blocks before I left, though.:A

Hopefully, by this time next week, we should be back in the kitchen again, with a new ceiling, instead of a view into the attic....or of the stars! Then we can relax a little.

Nothing else will need doing that involves roofing until next year, when we shall probably re-felt and batten on the original bungalow bits we've missed this time. Those battens aren't substantial, the felt is fragile and it wouldn't make sense to put panels on that sort of base.

RAS, I can recommend the sunpipes. A friend has them and we intend to use at least one, having seen theirs.

I think all the animals owned by people here (or is it the other way around? :rotfl:) are lucky, but then we know that whatever effort we put in, will be repaid a hundred times over.