You’ve all heard the express ‘time is a great healer’ and I saw this wonderful poem by Mark Allen (in Belfast):
They say that ‘Time is a great healer’
but one year on, it isn’t.
The reality is that time blurs and erodes memory.
While pleasure is hard to find
it helps you forget […]
It is with sadness that I have to thank you all for your incredible support and understanding, as we’ve gone through this period.
Friday was one of the most difficult days of my life! It became what we believed was ‘decision day’.
My partner, R walked out of the bedroom with Smudge and we both looked at him. It was clearly a question of ‘what quality of life?’ Amongst tears we talked about not letting […]
After writing last week’s article – Challenging!- I began to feel that I could deal with the emotions that were very close to the surface. With some of the challenges that we are facing, it did bring a lot of things into perspective. Each day is so precious!
“There are some advantages of […]
Today is one of those days when you truly feel helpless!
For the past 10-days we’ve been fighting to save Smudge’s life. He’s just not eating! It’s a couple of weeks away from being a year since he turned up on our pathway and the past two weeks we’ve seen his health […]
I’ve just realised that there haven’t been any updates about Smudge since April. Yesterday eleven months ago we found him crouched down outside the front patio – too weak to climb the stairs to the front door (http://www.nyasa.biz/smudge/a-smudge/).
The summer months have been interesting ones as we’ve watched Smudge explore outdoors on […]
Corners! Who’d have them?
The last couple of months have been fabulous, worrying, interesting, and enlightening.
Smudge’s 4-wheel drive still isn’t working (Mischief! Minx!); but after six months with us he is just loving life! I sit at my pc in the morning and look at emails … negative … problems … challenges … and then I […]
I was sitting publishing last week’s magazine when my partner (R) exclaimed! I went over to his computer to discover that at least two of our cats could be with us for the next 20 – 30 years!
R was reading an article entitled ‘Bedford cat which was ‘runt of the litter’ turns 27‘. We will […]
Corners! Steps! We are taking them all at a rush!
I sat quietly this morning watching Smudge rush around!
Stitches still in his right eye!
Nothing to stop him – so much energy.
R walked in and said ‘finished destroying the house yet?’ as Smudge’s 4-wheel-drive stopped working again.
He’s rushing around so fast that corners are a challenge! I […]
The article ‘The Squirrel and a Soldier’ brought home some true feelings about abandoned animals. Smudge has just undergone his second operation! He is at home today as I write this with stitches across where his right eye should be.
The operation was scheduled for last week, but our Vet explained that he would prefer a […]