So, Christmas came and went. It was fairly uneventful as far as I can remember. We weren’t doing too much as we were nursing a little dog back to health. Those of you on Facebook will know how Jez is doing (especially now she has her own page – and so many friends!). But we’ve spent 3 weeks having to take her out in the garden on a lead every time she wanted to go out. It was no fun – especially not in the middle of winter. Aside from the limping though, she was fine in herself, as you can see from these photos of her on Christmas day.
For Christmas I had a Nintendo DS, some games, books and jigsaw puzzles, one of which I’ve started today. So since then I’ve spent hours playing on the DS or playing Spore on the PC.
On 30 December I went to Salisbury where I was first death on the New Year Murder Weekend. Although I was only there a while I had great fun – they seemed to be a really good bunch of guests and (unusually for the first night) I got into character and into the plot straight away. I was sad when my time came to die. Anyway, here’s a couple of photos of me, courtesy of one of the guests.
That week was the start of the very cold weather we’ve been having. I noticed it was -3C as I drove back from Salisbury. A week ago it was down to -6C here though, and all of the ponds have frozen – in fact even the sea froze down at Sandbanks. So while it was still all frozen I took the camera out to photograph the local ‘Ponds’ where we have been walking Jez. They were frozen solid (apart from one small area where a stream flows in. Rather than post all the photos here I’ll include a couple and then put a link to the slideshow on Flickr (where you can see the photos much better).
To see all of the photos click here.
On the knitting front I’ve finished Chris’ jacket, but need a zip for it. Meanwhile I’ve started an Aran cable-knit jacket for myself (which takes quite a bit of concentrating). And I’ve completed mine and Chris’ tax returns and updated all our finance info. I was pleased to see that we’d actually spent a lot less than our income last year!
Well I think that’s about it on the news front, other than the update on Jez. Despite our efforts she was getting bored, so I started to take her to the end of the drive to have a sniff round on the footpath (since we were only walking he length of the garden – bearing in mind she was supposed to be on house arrest for 3 weeks). She would use her leg at times, but limped and held it up a lot. In the end Chris managed to speak to her surgeon while I was in Salisbury, and he confirmed that she would still be limping, but said we could take her out for 10 minute walks, increasing to 15 minutes 3 weeks after her op. So that’s what we’ve been doing. Some days she’s worse than others, and I don’t think this cold weather has helped (one night I was out walking her when it was -6C). Thursday we finally let her out in the garden on her own (cheers all round!), and she’s occasionally allowed to get up on the sofa. But she still skips an awful lot of steps, and at this stage I’m beginning to think that the operation has not corrected the problem. If that’s the case then we will always have to restrict her exercise and she will suffer really badly from arthritis. Anyway, I have to phone her surgeon this Friday for a progress update, so I’ll see what he says. But at the moment, she’s happy enough in herself.
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