Just got back from vet after having our nearly 19 year old cat put to sleep. I cried.

Just got back from vet after having our nearly 19 year old cat put to sleep. I cried.

Just got back from vet after having our nearly 19 year old cat put to sleep. I cried.

Thank you both. We've had cats ever since we've been married, and we decided that when this one died we wouldn't have any more as we go away quite a bit. So she was the last - poor old thing, she was in a terrible state when I took her in this morning - and only yesterday she was pottering around as usual. She went very quietly thank goodness.

Just got back from vet after having our nearly 19 year old cat put to sleep. I cried.

Just got back from vet after having our nearly 19 year old cat put to sleep. I cried.

Fairly minor, but annoying one - managed to scratch my eye on my OH's chin yesterday morning.

How dim is that- he stretched just as I reached across to find my phone!

Plus the minor injuries unit didn't use any local when they stained it so it really hurt and didn't stop hurting (despite painkillers) until A&E (where i'd been told to go if it didn't stop hurting) stained it with local and it instantly stopped being sore and managed to settle down massively. Still not perfect, but miles better.

I did have plans involving driving today, but had to cancel, and they can't be rearranged for ages.

Much sympathy.

Just got back from vet after having our nearly 19 year old cat put to sleep. I cried.

Aaargh just had the whole 'you need to get a job soon' talk from my parents - they clearly have no idea what's going on in my head right now, but I know what they're like and if I try to tell them they'll just tell me to either grow up, accept this as a fact of life, or both - not particularly useful advice in my current emotional state

ot good news Dawn. Have you got your diploma results yet??

Hmm, the way I would explain is that Tamville is a country with ?10 in the bank. But I want to spend ?15 on welfare music schemes. So I create 5 bonds of value ?1. These are IOUs which I 'sell' to Forumville and other 'ville's. These 'villes' see that I have ?10, so they think I can repay. The IOUs have no intrinsic value, and I have to pay interest on them. I then spend all ?15.

At some point in the future I have to pay back the ?5 I borrowed (or buy back the debts I sold), I also have to repay the interest (say, an additional ?1). But all my money is gone, so I borrow ?6, in order to clear the existing ?5 debt. Because I have borrowed money in the past, people are happy to lend to me, because they feel confident they'll get it back: I've always repayed my debts in the past. At some point in the future, though I will have to repay ?6 plus interest ... and I'll have to borrow that money too.

Now consider, that Forumville and the other 'villes' are probably also in debt too. They probably borrowed the ?5 that they lent Tamville from someone else. The someone else they borrowed the money from, most likely borrowed that from yetanotherperson. The whole system then depends on everyone passing around IOUs, without the material value of the IOUs being redeemed (because no-one actually has all the money being lent in an account somewhere: Each 'ville' has just enough to reassure people that they can repay their debts). Hence, there is more debt (IOUs) being passed around the system than ever existed in actual currency. The only way for it to vanish is for it to be inflated away... which goes someway to explain why prices are rising so much at the moment.

I've had to sort out smaller son's room whilst he's away.

Four bags of rubbish and counting... now I've hurt my back and DrD is threatening to make me drive to the outlaws to collect Dboys if I don't finish tonight. I can only manage little chunks it really hurts!

Thanks to everyone for sympathy. We buried her in the garden along with all the other pets over the years.

Just caught up with this. My thoughts are with you at this sad time...it just hurts so much having to say goodbye to a beloved pet.

Take it easy Jod, you don't want to make it worse! My worn-out old neck is 'nagging' me, after a bout of housework (not to mention my arthritic right thumb/wrist) so you have my sympathy.

Allegra

Not yet, nor theory results!! Dip results should be about another month.

I'm packing my stuff into boxes ready for the big move on Monday. I don't understand how I have accumulated so much... crubbish... and yet, most of this paper I can't bring myself to throw away. I'm looking at 7 lever arch files of notes from my degree, and thinking, I'm never going to open them again... but I can't quite bring myself to fetch out a bin bag.

Hopefully unpacking in the new flat will be more fun!

Uggh know that feeling - having just come back from uni I'm having to completely reorganise my bedroom to get all my stuff in - this morning's target is my bookshelves and I'm currently surrounded by piles of books because a few of them are too big to fit in a box and the rest won't fit back on my shelves!

What theory grade did you do?

We've managed to buy ourselves a DVD player/combi recorder with HDD + freeview tuner that won't let you record one channel and watch another.
So as soon as the (rubbishy) film began at 9p.m it clicked off the Film music prom and started recording and showing Shrooms. Aaargh! We couldn't stop it, cancel it or do anything with it apart from go over to terrestrial tv, which was also showing rubbish.

I can't believe that in the 21st century we have a machine that is worse than the old video recorder we had in the 1980s.

I missed last weekend's Ravel prom for the same reason but we presumed my husband had set it up wrongly - now, reading reviews of the machine it seems not.
Bah!

((hugs)) to everyone who is suffering in any way.

I just got back from a lovely few days in Devon to read the news that a very, very dear old friend passed away yesterday and I'm devastated. Am going to miss him so much.

I just got back from a lovely few days in Devon to read the news that a very, very dear old friend passed away yesterday and I'm devastated. Am going to miss him so much.

My hens have got red mite. It's about the worst thing you can get, and awful to get rid of. Not looking forward to a few days of steam cleaning and scrubbing. And one of them looks as if she's on her last legs (she's old) so I'll probably have that to deal with too.