26 March 2013





Sally came round to visit on Sunday. Murphy was very pleased - lots of extra love and attention! As you can see, he twisted himself round about 270 degrees to have his nose rubbed!

18 March 2013

The Big Bang Theory

I love this programme. It's in its sixth series now so clearly I'm not the only one. The goings-on of the four brainy geeks and their trials and tribulations living in the normal world, mainly represented by Penny, the pretty blonde waitress who lives across the landing. Richard says he hates it but I was watching a couple of episodes last night and he actually laughed all the way through it!

Worryingly, I actually could see myself behaving the way Sheldon did at one point. I totally understood where he was coming from. So my suspicions about being a wee bit on the scale may actually be correct. That's good - I thought I was a social inept, now I know there's probably a reason!

Snow spaniel

Speaking of last week's snow...

Fit's been happening?

Well, we've been on holiday and the dogs were put into kennels. Murphy was getting on the thin side when he went in, and is now definitely thin. not worryingly, but I wouldn't want him losing any more weight. We've been upping his feed but he hasn't put any weight on. Of course, he'll be 9 on Wednesday so he's getting older and it may be something to do with that. Now that Richard's not working Mondays he's supposed to be making an appointment at the vet for Murfs to get a general medical to make sure there's nothing sinister in this weight thing. So once I've reminded him several times...

Maddie is her usual ebuliant self. Howls of rage on Saturday morning from Nick's room alerted me to the fact that she had stolen his (giant sized) Toblerone off his desk this week. Oh dear. Other than that she's been pretty good.

Winter still remains with us and last week's snow has gone but this week's is threatening. It's just generally wet, windy and freezing - a superb combination which obviously encourages us all to get out on our bikes and cycle to work, as well as lay off the chocolate... saying which, I was supposed to give up chocolate for Lent. I did, for three days. So I'm contemplating eating it for Lent instead. You never know, it might work!

We went down Glasgow way for a family meetup for Mother's day/birthday. Weather pretty hairy on way down but we got to the edge of it and it was worth it for the views and the company!