It’s a Blog ! Not a Log !

Those of you who read my blog will no doubt have come across posts about our Cane Corso (Italian Mastiff) Blue, well I’m sad to say Blue’s been a little bit under the weather these past few weeks due to damage to her cruciate ligament in one of her hind legs.

She developed some lameness in her leg in May which was prescribed anti-inflammatories for and this seemed to do the trick, however at the end of June, beginning of July her symptoms came back, so after 2 visits to the vets and a set of x-rays we were told that she’d most likely torn her cruciate ligament and were referred to a Consultant Vet at North West Surgeons nr Frodsham.

So along came the appointed consultation where we were told that from what could be seen from the x-rays it appears that Blues ligament has indeed been torn, this was apparently obvious from the x-rays (not a vet myself, so have had to take his word for it), the next step we’ve been told is surgery and at present Blue is booked in to have the operation on the 13th August 2010.

We’ve been told the operation has a 96% success rate, but this all depends on how her recovery is managed, so for the first 6 weeks, Blue will be crated confined and only allowed out for her constitutionals and that’s it, then after the 6 weeks its a case of very slow, gentle exercise, which will gradually build up to a manageable 20 minute walk, and then over time hopefully build up to longer walks and fingers crossed semi-normality.

I can honestly say I am very nervous about Blue going under anethisia, as thats probably the most dangerous part of the whole operation, don’t know what we’d do if anything every happened to Blue, so fingers crossed, wood touched everything will go smoothly.

Will endeavour to keep you all updated on how our little Princess is getting on

kennys party 071, originally uploaded by BagRat.

Kenny reached the grand old age of 50 last week along with Andy reaching the 40 mark, so they had a joint party to celebrate and used the oppurtunity to get everyone back togeather again.

It was good to see all the faces from the partys togeather again having a laugh and just generally getting on, party kicked off at of all places Stretford Cricket Club, then moved onto Lisa’s flat, where drinks flowed and people talked bollox (mainly due to what they’d had).

We left fairly early on in the morning 5:00am so maybe not so early, but the party carried on after we left, ending only when John, Ben and a few others decided to place most of Lisa food stuffs in the freezer . . . oh and after Ben had emptied a full bag of flour over the sleeping Lisa’s head (not nice Ben).

Gotta say Kenny was looking good for an old man and no doubt has many years left in him, all the best Kenny and Andy

Time to put away the bunting, yes the curtain has fallen on this years Giant Bradley Day…..

I arrived home early Saturday afternoon with Mel, Liam and Gemma, after we’d got Liam and Gemma settled in there little log cabin decided to take them for a quick scoot around York to do the touristy thing, though to be honest we did’nt have long there as it was at least 3pm when we got there, had a quick beer in the Roman Baths pub and then took them around the Shambles and such like.

Liam looking all Redneck

Arrived back in Weighton about 6:00pm and then met up with them both for a few drinks round Weighton, actually expected it to be a fairly busy day, but seems that most people were saving themselves for Sunday nights as the pubs were real empty, Bradley day itself was the usual stalls and street performers, was especially impressed by the guy doing the Falconary display, really entertaining and very enjoyable, did’nt see much of the Giant though.

Entered Blue in the Dog Show again this year though she was pipped at the post by a rescue Akita, in all she won 3 Rossetes:

1st Place for Most Looks Like Owner

2nd Place for Best Legs

2nd Place for Best in Show

But hey she cant be expected to win every year, got to give all the other dogs a chance, anyway after that we hung around for a few hours and then decided to head back to Manchester with Liam and Gemma and another Bradley Day was been and gone

When we all get pulled outside for a little chat with our Dept Heads to discuss this year’s pay review . .

So how much are we all worth this year you wonder . . . well wonder no more for our company has valued us all at 3%, yes so for every pound I get paid this year another 3p will be added to it, just enough to cover 1 months mortgage payment (well it would be if I wasn’t taxed on it that is), while being given the “Good News” I was also informed that I might hear that some people got bonus’s this year ( I wasn’t one of the lucky ones), but not to worry because it wasn’t a lot, well excuse me but it may not have been a lot, but its more then what I actually got . . so of course I’m worried, who was it that got the bonus? What did they do that I didn’t ? What can I do next year to ensure that I get one at the next pay review ? Please someone tell me. .

Nothing like a Pay review to get you down is there . . .

was where I learnt to be different, to buck the trend and to just enjoy being young, so why am I mentioning it now when I’m 42, well its because I’ve recently been having an email correspondence with someone on Flickr, they found me through some photo’s that I’d put on there from when myself and a few close friends returned to Spiders to celebrate my my 40th birthday, he’d come across them when he was searching for Spiders photo’s, seems he had also recently celebrated his 40th and got to thinking of his younger days.

So we’ve been corresponding about Spiders and it seems that we were both once Psychobillies and we knew the same people, so it was pretty clear we’d probably both know each other and guess what we do,some of the names he mentioned I’d not heard or thought about in years.

When I next go to my mothers I said I’d have a look through my old pictures and see if I can find any from Spiders and scan them in and place them on Flickr for him to check out, will probably ask Jase, Adam, Kate and Rebecca if they have any kicking around they could scan in to, if they have I’ll add them as well.

So that why I’ve been thinking of Spiders today, it’s been fun thinking about those days when I used about a ton of Insette hairspray to hold my hair in place and seemed to be able to drink Jack Daniels until it came out of my ears (ok until i threw up)

Well finally got around to donwloading some more videos off the camcorder and have spent part of today uploading them to YouTube for your watching pleasure.

Anyway first up is of course Blue . . Blue likes to think thats shes an aeroplane sometimes and likes to stick her head out the window and pretend her ears are wings

Next up is my mum giving a commentary on the Festival of Flowers at Market Weightons All Saints Church on the 3rd of May, so expect to see lots of flowers and my mum

As for the rest of the videos they are of course of Blue so get ready for a Blue overdose

Heres Blue enjoying her new walk we found, ts Ivy Green in Chorlton

And another around Ivy Green, but this time in the meadows

Now this we think is Blues favourite video, mainly cause she gets to eat on it, one of my work colleagues Tracey has a soft spot for Blue I think and keeps bring bones in for her, this time she got to sample a Ham Bone . . .