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Thank you, Mark and Ruth, and Margaid, for your kind messages. It would be lovely if we could get together again one day, and you could meet Pippin as well. If you, or anyone on here, is ever near to Whitchurch in Hampshire, do please message me. You’d all be very welcome.

Our beautiful Poppy died last Saturday. Her quality of life had remained good in her last two weeks, slowing down a lot but she was still responsive, patrolling the garden and interested in investigating the latest outbreak of rats under our neighbours shed that kept popping through the hedge...

Creating a password.

J.P. IS that stupid, or we wouldn’t have been landed with this lot in the first place!

It still sounds strange to say The King, doesn’t it?

Some people are just too stupid to give up, aren’t they? ‘ “Calling it a “terrible mistake”, he added: “The shame of it is that you go out basically being seen as a sleazeball. And you can understand why people would think that. So yes, there is shame. “But once you’ve made a mistake, once...

Update on Liz Truss’s lectern. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/18/liz-truss-jenga-style-podium-cost-taxpayers-4175 Update on Liz Truss lectern; No wonder they can’t find any money for the nurses...

Yes it did fog up inside when I drove off, despite the windows being clear of frost. I expect the car had got very damp and cold inside, standing out on the drive in the rain. If I had run the electric lead out, I think I’d have just used the hair dryer on the windows outside to loosen the...

No snow, but freezing hard again today - had to get all dressed up over my nightie to take liquid drinker down to the chickens. Great to have a helpful husband. Last night it was well below freezing and so the car windows were all frozen up. I’d allowed an extra ten minutes to clear them...

Incredible. Disgusting. How can we safely complain about this? I'm reluctant to publicise this on FB in case people buy and use it.

Thank you all for your kind words, much appreciated. We seem to be into ‘how long is a piece of string’ territory - who knows how long - she’s just living a very quiet life, sleeping a lot, walking slowly. However, she was immediately alert when some dogs appeared in a film we were watching on...

Thank you. Poppy was quite poorly at 6.00 yesterday when I got up and went to see her, so I gave her an increased dose of Vetmedin, her heart pill. Within a couple of hours she’d perked up enough to toddle gently down the road a few hundred yards and have breakfast. So we went to talk to the...

It’s very difficult here at present. Our lovely Poppy was diagnosed with mitral valve insufficiency two years ago. This is a progressive inoperable condition, always terminal, very common in middle aged and elderly dogs - Poppy is nine. The leaky heart valve allows fluid to pass into the dog’s...

Oh dear - any progress, HenGen? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/14/thousands-still-without-power-in-shetland-as-cold-blast-bites-uk

Hi Icemaiden. I don’t know what type of run you have, or what size, but I wondered if it’s possible to fix them some extra perches at different heights? Mine spend a lot of time during the day perched companionably on one of the perches overlooking the garden, and flying up and down does give...

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It does look lovely all the same. But then, so does Fetlar!

At least it doesn’t mention Santa!