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Thanks everyone for your messages about Ming. He’s had lots of extra cuddles over the last few days, and doesn’t seem to be suffering any after-effects. We discussed again whether it was worth taking him to the vet, but from what I’ve read about seizures in cats, there’s loads of possible causes, none of which…

Border complete, and metallics added: And backstitch done: Now all that remains is to add the date and name details in the spaces above and below the horse (though I’m also contemplating unpicking the eyes of the upper right bear and repositioning them – I put them where the pattern indicated, but I reckon he…

Ok, so that walk yesterday was even more successful than I thought! I not only got a second catch (Jackson’s Dilemma by Iris Murdoch), but MrPloppy got a job out of one of the flyers I delivered! I still didn’t sleep particularly well, unfortunately 🙁 But at least everything else about the walk worked out….

A friend sent me this link to some useful advice: if you’re getting tired of your blog, you may be suffering from blog depression (it does actually make a serious point about getting things in perspective). So, I’m not going to feel guilty about the lack of activity in my diary over the last few…

Well, it looks like that although DD is back up and running again (well, apart from some weirdness with comments – it looks like there’s a bit of a delay happening between posting a comment and it actually appearing, which means that silly people like me double-post comments because we think it didn’t work the…

Still somewhere in New Mexico, about 50 miles from the Texas border Stopped for lunch in Roswell. Aliens are their only tourist attraction, so they make the most of it. As well as the “official” UFO museum there are half a dozen gift shops (or “UFO and Alien Stuff” shops, as several were called) posing…