Travelling On

Karmacat

Thanks RT - he should have had several more years, but rabbits seem to be incredibly delicate.  The vets were very good, and very communicative.

themadvix

Very sorry to hear about the bunny Karma. Not nice for you or bunny or bunny’s owners. But you’re right, rabbits are delicate and there’s only so much vets can do for them. Still sad though. 

beanielou

Fly high wee bun.

Karmacat

themadvix said:

Very sorry to hear about the bunny Karma. Not nice for you or bunny or bunny’s owners. But you’re right, rabbits are delicate and there’s only so much vets can do for them. Still sad though. 

Exactly.  The vet is saying it could have happened any time, and my niece is being so kind to accept that completely while heartbroken.

beanielou said:

Fly high wee bun.

Oh beanie, I love that, thank you 😢 

Cheery_Daff

Aw KC, so sorry you had to go through that. How worrying all round, what a sad situation for all concerned xxx

Karmacat

Thanks Cheery.  I sat for this same rabbit once before in his own home, so to speak, and he had much more space - a run about 7 feet long, and he was let out into the room it was in twice a day.  He nibbled at my trainers, hid in a cardboard box and moved it around while he was inside it, just like a cartoon.  Adorable.  

starnac

Oh KC I'm sorry to hear about the rabbit and I am glad that everyone involves accept it for the unlucky situation that it was. In a way at least you were there for him when he got ill. 

Watty1

So sorry to read about rabbit.  Tough when you are sitting someone's pet. 

Karmacat

Thank you all - I do feel horrendously guilty, even though it had already happened to him twice (and my niece's own vet had given her a supply of the correct medicine to keep at home).  I really feel for her, she loved her rabbit as much as I loved my cats.

Anyway.  Onward.  I didn't love him in the same way, as cute as he was, so I don't have that level of grief to deal with, just the guilt.  Argh - but I subscribe to Captain Awkward's dictum: support inwards, complain outwards.  That is, someone's in trouble (my niece), they get support from me.  People who are unconnected to the event (that's you lot   ) get my complaints/ guilt.  I shall stop blathering now!

I *have* done stuff today.
1. Big long email with attachments to my nephew interested in genealogy.
2. Unpacking and sorting - washing was on the line for 6 hours, and didn't dry at all - brought it in, put the heat on and left the window open to let at least some of the wet evaporate.  All closed up now.  Tidied too, not bad at all.
3. Spent pots of money online: £36 at chimneysheep.co.uk - the ones that Cheery bought from originally.  I had a plastic balloon up my chimney, which sounds vaguely obscene - but it's falling out every few hours, and I need an eco-replacement, and I love that firm anyway.  So I spent.
4. Sadly, I also spent £55 at Amazon.  Two sets of eco-cards, like my Christmas cards, they're small but beautifully printed, British flowers and British wildlife, to be used as get well cards, and maybe sympathy cards.  A hardback A5 diary, which even I need, appointments are ever with us.  A USB powered short strip of grow lamps, LEDs, I'm determined to grow seeds healthily this year.  Drowning them, and not having enough light, are killers.    And I pushed it well over the free delivery threshold by buying some groceries I use every day with porridge etc.

£90 total spent!  Dear me.  Still, all of it's been sitting in my "save for later" list at Amazon for weeks, none of it is impulse.  This is where budgets fall short for me, and I'm going to abandon the sort of budget that says "£50 for repairs, £20 for personal spends", all of that.  Budget is for monthly and annual bills - insurance, utilities, food, things like that.  I don't go off the rails with spending, and double glazed windows etc cost what they cost.  The areas I can be wasteful are things like yogurt being out of date, and also not planting full grown plants that I buy.  That's the kind of thing I need to keep an eye on.

Okay, that's good!  

themadvix

The balloon up the chimney sounded far more obscene once you said it fell out occasionally… it took me back to James Herriot books and prolapsed uteruses (uteri?!) in cows and sheep! 

Wise spending there today, even if it added up - if it’s all been sitting in your basket for a while then it must be stuff that, on reflection, you need.