I know when to go out, And when to stay in

Well the main rebuild went well. The PC seems much better at the moment, plus it’s installed the Vista updates for the first time ever! Normally there were one or two important updates that would never install. And it now recognises all 4Gb of RAM, contrary to what the guy at PC World told me. The main pain has been re-installing software. However, at least I’ve not had to go back in and alter all the settings as I restored a backup. I have had a problem with a couple of bits of software, but that’s sorted now (fingers crossed). All in all it took a couple of days though.

The weather here has actually been nice this week, and today has been bright sunshine and warm. I’ve been out planning pansies and bulbs in planters. No walk for me & Jez today. She’s damaged a hind leg again (right one this time). I’m not entirely sure what she’s done, but she can’t put her weight on it properly. It’s worse if she’s been asleep – it takes her ages to get going. Eventually she seems to walk normally again though, and once that’s happened she can trot around and run as though nothing’s wrong. I’m assuming she’s strained something, or maybe twisted something. Today she hasn’t wanted to do anything at all and has been feeling very sorry for herself, so we are resting her completely. In fact its 3.30pm and she’s only just stopped limping for the first time today. Good job her agility was cancelled again. This time it was due to a permanent change of venue. The new place is apparently loads better, so hopefully she’ll be well enough and the weather will be ok to start next Saturday.

In other news I met up with Val for supper on Thursday night. We went out to an Italian chain restaurant and had a good old natter. I caught up on all the news. It was really good seeing her again, and really good to talk to someone other than Chris and whichever dog walkers I bump into of a day. Seems that they are worked harder than ever at work, so I’m glad I’m not there any more. Mind you, my retirement fund has taken one hell of a hit with the falls on the stockmarket as I have a lot of banking shares (from staff share schemes). I haven’t dared work out how much I’ve ‘lost’, since I Haven’t actually crystallised that loss and it would only depress me. I’m just sitting tight in the hope that they will go back up again.

I’ll leave you with some new pictures of Jez (well, new so long as you haven’t looked at her blog). I wanted some of her at 1 year old, so took the opportunity of the sunshine on Thursday to snap a few.