So yesterday morning I messed around with the camera and tried some more macro photography. I really do not have the right lens on the big camera, so was playing with my small one. Bur for still life I need something to act as a background and didn’t really have anything. In the end I waiting until Chris got home and nipped round to Staples and got a roll of black and a roll of white paper. But I couldn’t do any photography then as the dogs were back. I did get one good shot earlier in the say, however. It’s of a small ornament of mine. I really like the lighting on it.
I didn’t get much of the wardrobes done yesterday as Chris was watching football all day, when he wasn’t walking the dogs. We’ve finished off the drawer unit today and have joined the two wardrobe units together. Now we just need to fit the rails, the shelves & the doors.
I chased B&Q for my bookcases. Apparently they have the tall one set aside for me, but can no longer get the low one. Which is really annoying as they just about match the wardrobes. So I went round their yesterday and managed to persuade them to let me have the display bookcase (they weren’t keen). Today they’ve rung to say they will all be delivered next week and they’ll let me have £15 off the small bookcase.
Last night for dinner I tried a new recipe, well, two actually. They were out of the Levi Roots’ Caribbean Cookery book I had for Christmas. The first was a beef dish – pepperpot, and the second was grilled pineapple with a rum & lime sauce and honey ice cream. They were both really nice, which is a good job as I have a lot of the pepperpot left over.
Today I have taken Jez to the vet – again! That lump on Jez’s side has been getting bigger. I looked at it this morning and suspected it to be a histiocytoma, which is a benign tumour. Max had one on his foot when he was young, so I know roughly what one looks like. The vet thought the same as me but decided to take a cell scraping to check it. They are not supposed to have any nerve endings in them, so he didn’t expect Jez to feel the needle he stuck in her side. Wrong! Poor little soul. She squirmed around, but otherwise was very good. Anyway, thankfully he’s confirmed it’s benign. He doesn’t want to remove it unless he has to as he says it will mess up her beautiful markings (her tiger stripes). It should reabsorb in 2-3 months. Of course, Max’s didn’t: it became ulcerated and we had to have it removed. But that was because he kept licking it. Jez isn’t a licker, and anyway can’t get at this.
After the vet I took them over the Heath. We had a nice long walk as it’s a lovely afternoon. And Jez met her friend Findlay the deerhound, and she had a good play with him. He’s a photo of Jez and Findlay that I took last month.
The patches on his side are where his fur was shaved after another dog bit him, poor thing. And he’s so friendly, and bounces around, legs going in all directions.
Once again the dogs got pretty muddy over the Heath. The ice from last month has melted (although we have a little bit more at the moment where it’s cold) and has left thick mud. But at least it was only on one section of the Heath today. Yesterday we went over Upton Heath and I took the dogs up the Roman Road to the viewpoint and then back down across the heath. And for about ¼ mile the path was just thick mud and clay, 2-3 inches deep. It was downhill, so slippery, and you couldn’t really get off the path to avoid it because along that section the gorse grows right up to the edge of the path. It was horrible. And then I couldn’t hose the dogs down when I got home as the hose was frozen. So I just wiped Jez with a towel and put Max in the shower.
Well, I think that’s just about it. I can’t think of anything else much that’s happened.
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