I am pleased to report that we had a second good night with Chivers - he is settling into a routine although not one he really likes. He is fairly happy to use the litter tray for a wee but is less than enthusiastic about doing anything else and so he feels duty bound to let us know that he would really rather be going outside somewhere for more serious business. Nevertheless he has used the facilities provided and now seems to be happy to sleep on our bed or the spare bed during the night until nature calls which is about 6.00am. His waking, protests and ultimate bowel evacuation wake the others and so then we are forced to get up and feed them all, let Charlie, Boris and Minnie Mou out and then secure the house so that Chivers can have a bit of a run.
Today being Friday we were off down to Mums before going to pickleball. Normally Mum plays on a Friday but she has been troubled with Trigger Finger on her right (playing) hand and so she went to see the specialist on Monday and he agreed to give her a Cortisone injection - she has had two previously and they seem to work for her although the time between injections is getting shorter and after this one then her options will be to grin and bear it or surgery. She had the injection and played pickleball on Tuesday. She might have been better to have rested it but she wasn't advised to do so and it seemed to be ok but subsequently it has been giving her a bit of discomfort so she sensibly decided to give today a miss and hopefully by doing so she will be fine for her games next week. I know she like coming on a Friday but better to rest it now for one week than do something major that prevents her from playing for a while. She said the injection hurt a bit as they put the needle in and having looked at the photograph above I can see why - I am rather glad that my trigger thumb seems to have sorted itself out without any intervention.
It was warm today on the court - this is the first time I have seriously contemplated needing to have the fans on and Liselotte was back after her trip to Denmark and on fire! We all played like demons so it was probably for the best that Mum was resting!!!
We went down and spent some time with Mum before pickleball today instead of afterwards. It seemed sensible to do this as then we could be back home early to spend time with Chivers. Just as well really because in our haste to get away this morning we had forgotten to open the cat-flap so although Chivers had the run of the house and access to his food and cat litter so did Charlie and Boo and poor Minnie Mou was shut outside - although she didn't seem bothered.
Chivers is so desperate to get out poor thing but his wound still has an area which has yet to heal and it looks a bit red so we hope he hasn't got an infection there - we have tried so hard to keep it clean.
As a result of this confinement we really haven't been outside in the garden as much as we would normally so it was with some surprise that I realised we had a beautiful iris in full bloom in Wendy and Bill Corner. I love that, with spring flowers, one minute there is no sign, then they appear from nowhere and then just as quickly they are gone having provided a welcome splash of colour when the garden has been looking pretty sad. The last few days of warmer weather is having a beneficial effect though and things are now beginning to wake up. The gazania and osteospurmum are looking brilliant.
The other week in Lidl they had pyjama shorts bottoms for sale. John likes to have a couple of pairs of those so that he has something to wear when we have visitors so as not to put them off of their breakfast. Mum had kindly gone and got him several pairs as a thank you for sorting out her network cable to the sun room and for replacing the sealant outside where it had weathered and a million other jobs he does for her. I bet she didn't realise that when she got them they have a little anchor motive on the bottom - well you know what they say...
"...you can take the boy out of the Navy but not the Navy out of the boy!!"
I think I must have been inspired by our lunch at the Japanese in Polis yesterday because this evening for our supper I cooked sesame chicken with noodles. I haven't cooked this sort of food for ages and ages possibly years and it was a resounding success - John was pleased there was enough to freeze for him to have on a Monday when I am at art.
Today being Friday we were off down to Mums before going to pickleball. Normally Mum plays on a Friday but she has been troubled with Trigger Finger on her right (playing) hand and so she went to see the specialist on Monday and he agreed to give her a Cortisone injection - she has had two previously and they seem to work for her although the time between injections is getting shorter and after this one then her options will be to grin and bear it or surgery. She had the injection and played pickleball on Tuesday. She might have been better to have rested it but she wasn't advised to do so and it seemed to be ok but subsequently it has been giving her a bit of discomfort so she sensibly decided to give today a miss and hopefully by doing so she will be fine for her games next week. I know she like coming on a Friday but better to rest it now for one week than do something major that prevents her from playing for a while. She said the injection hurt a bit as they put the needle in and having looked at the photograph above I can see why - I am rather glad that my trigger thumb seems to have sorted itself out without any intervention.
It was warm today on the court - this is the first time I have seriously contemplated needing to have the fans on and Liselotte was back after her trip to Denmark and on fire! We all played like demons so it was probably for the best that Mum was resting!!!
We went down and spent some time with Mum before pickleball today instead of afterwards. It seemed sensible to do this as then we could be back home early to spend time with Chivers. Just as well really because in our haste to get away this morning we had forgotten to open the cat-flap so although Chivers had the run of the house and access to his food and cat litter so did Charlie and Boo and poor Minnie Mou was shut outside - although she didn't seem bothered.
Chivers is so desperate to get out poor thing but his wound still has an area which has yet to heal and it looks a bit red so we hope he hasn't got an infection there - we have tried so hard to keep it clean.
As a result of this confinement we really haven't been outside in the garden as much as we would normally so it was with some surprise that I realised we had a beautiful iris in full bloom in Wendy and Bill Corner. I love that, with spring flowers, one minute there is no sign, then they appear from nowhere and then just as quickly they are gone having provided a welcome splash of colour when the garden has been looking pretty sad. The last few days of warmer weather is having a beneficial effect though and things are now beginning to wake up. The gazania and osteospurmum are looking brilliant.
The other week in Lidl they had pyjama shorts bottoms for sale. John likes to have a couple of pairs of those so that he has something to wear when we have visitors so as not to put them off of their breakfast. Mum had kindly gone and got him several pairs as a thank you for sorting out her network cable to the sun room and for replacing the sealant outside where it had weathered and a million other jobs he does for her. I bet she didn't realise that when she got them they have a little anchor motive on the bottom - well you know what they say...
"...you can take the boy out of the Navy but not the Navy out of the boy!!"
I think I must have been inspired by our lunch at the Japanese in Polis yesterday because this evening for our supper I cooked sesame chicken with noodles. I haven't cooked this sort of food for ages and ages possibly years and it was a resounding success - John was pleased there was enough to freeze for him to have on a Monday when I am at art.
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