I Keep Thinking it is Saturday...

We woke at some god forsaken time this morning - it was daylight at least but very early.  Chivers' health continues to give us some cause for concern but today at least he wanted to eat and we have switched to wet food so that he gets some fluid intake when he eats.  He has had a little to drink today although in fairness Mins doesn't seem to drink that much and we are still waiting for the tablets to sort out his constitution because until that happens dehydration is a real danger. We decided to keep him in and calm and under a watchful eye rather than stress him out again in the car but if he looks like he is not responding we will get him to the vets immediately.

Both cats have been treated for ticks and fleas this morning - just as well as the goats were brought to graze in the field next door and around these parts they are known as the Tick Express.  

Chivers absolutely hates the goats so we tried to keep him in and distracted but failed miserably and he was out doing the odd mouthing thing that he does when he is faced with something he doesn't like or something he is hunting. It is like silent growling and is very odd and as we are trying to keep him calm this wasn't good.  

John kept a close eye on him even when he decided to jump the fence and started following the goats.  Fortunately no incidents and no ticks today.  A couple of times today he has been running round like a puppy at MAC II and then he pants for a short time and then calms down, maybe we are looking for things that aren't there and that as a cat who had a poor start in life he will always suffer with a poor constitution and erratic breathing.

When the cats went for their mid-morning nap we took the opportunity to nip down to Polis.  John wanted to go to the woodyard to order the wood for the carport and for decking under the gazebo and then we picked up a few bits and bobs in the supermarket.

It being close to lunchtime and as a treat to us both after a rather stressful week we ended up in our favourite cafe for tea and stickies.  Today I opted for the moist orange cake that I had when we went for the first time with Laura - John plumped for a baked poppy-seed cheesecake which he said was absolutely fantastic and I had to admit it was a million times better than the name sounded.  It was beautiful sitting in the shady courtyard eating cake and drinking tea and great to see that the Art Cafe was busy because I know of two people who would be devastated if it weren't there.

It was very very warm when we got back - in the conservatory it was well over 30 degrees so we left it a couple of hours before we decided to do some jobs.  John was devastated that I hadn't noticed that he had done a load of work on the front garden yesterday.

We had decided to remove the footpath that split this part of the garden and to make it into one patch so that I could plant it up with more plants.  I was in such a rush to get in last night from Mum and Dad's I had walked past it and not taken any notice - how bad is that?

We have been looking at some of the plants which Klaus and Sheila gave us and we are going to put them in this front garden.  The herbs are doing brilliantly and at the moment the thyme and sage are both flowering so that adds some colour.  In the winter this is where we get the majority of the sunshine so we would like to make sure that when we are sat on the paved area that we have this lovely lush garden area to look at.

It is Friday night - takeaway and movie - except without the takeaway!  We have just had a lovely chilli prawn and butterbean salad with fresh village bread and dips (and yes Laura, I removed all the poo sacs!!).  We are now going to watch a film called Source Code - hope it is a good one.