Nel has had a busy summer: With her Peppy Paws dog walking and pet sitting service – she has a regular dog walk most days and she has had a couple of holiday customers. She’s looked after : dogs, cats, rabbits, fish and chickens so far. She even brought home the eggs (at the behest [...]

Wednesday turned out to be a jam packed day. I didn’t need to go in to my clinic until late morning so I painted the shelves in the bedroom, thinking they could dry all day with the window open without me being there to smell the paint. Then I was in my clinic for the [...]

As well as her regular one, Nel has had a couple of new clients for her business, only for holiday cover, but happy customers still She has also been to see Connexions for any advice they can offer and they are helping her to apply for a business start up grant. They are also going [...]

As you may recall, Nel has been desperate for part time work for some time now, and particularly since she was told that she can have a dog if she pays for its upkeep, so she has been applying for quite a few jobs. Sadly she rarely gets any response at all, never mind an [...]

Since I’ve been back home, I’ve been catching up with everything but it’s been two steps forwards, one back as the “4 losses” will show: Lost photos! On Bank Holiday Monday I persuaded Billy to come for a walk with me so we went up to Hadrian’s Wall, picking a spot we hadn’t visited before [...]

Mum sent me this list cut from her newspaper a while back and I thought I’d post the list and tick them off if/when I’ve done them: 1. Listing three good things that have happened today Did a good gym workout; Received mine and mum’s tickets for Palace v West Brom; Sorted out the last [...]

Whilst I seem to have done little else but work the last two weeks, Nel has been busy herself, sorting out her education, her health and working on her dreams. She had a good meeting with the head of sixth form and it’s been agreed that she can concentrate on her R.E and Philosophy A [...]

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Just two weeks after his baby (Schnee) died, Trea also died – peacefully, in his sleep. Nel found him when he was still warm and came sobbing in to me, holding him in her hand. We’d only been saying a day or two before this that we thought he may not have long left as [...]

Today, Tuesday 19th January 2010 is my beautiful daughter’s seventeenth birthday. She was always a serious, deep thinking little girl and always took a while to learn a new trick – talking, walking etc. She never learned little by little, practising until she got it right. She just sat, and watched, and then one day, [...]