My poorly girly

Above picture courtesy of Rebecca Taunton.
My poor Moll is having a bad week. First of all she has another allergy, only weeks after the last one, which means she was itching like mad over the weekend, so that meant another trip to the vet and more steroids. I don’t like the idea of her having them but there isn’t an alternative – or rather, there is, but a) it’s very expensive and b) she has to have been off steroids for 6 weeks which she hasn’t been. Still, at least she’s stopped itching.

This morning I heard her being – er – not very well. The poor little thing was sick five times all over the flat, including outside, and managed to throw up again on the mat by the back door while we were having breakfast. (Apologies to those who are or have just eaten. I didn’t enjoy my breakfast much either.)

However, having done that she went out for a walk and bounced along chasing sparrows as if nothing was the matter. Having said that, she’s just crawled in here and is lying down at my feet which she doesn’t usually do. Fingers crossed. Otherwise it’s a taxi to the vet as Himself has gone off to try and finish doing up the car.

The idea behind this is that we get a van so that we can go away for the night (in lieu of holidays). This is as long as we can sell the car which, some of you might remember, was badly vandalised some months ago. Because the insurance doesn’t cover it being repaired, Himself has been doing it over weeks because the weather conditions have to be right and of course it’s rained solidly for the past few weeks.

Hopefully tomorrow we can take it to a friend who’s a mechanic, he can give us some idea of what we’ll get for the car and then we can see if we can sell it and get a van.

More fingers crossed.

The good news is I had a call from one of the magazines that I work for, asking me to call in to the office. There I saw of mock up of the piece plus photographs done by my friend RT, who has done a wonderful job.

What touched me particularly was that she took a lovely picture of Moll swimming. The editor is a great dog fan, so next month, Moll will be famous! Get September’s issue of Cornwall Today and see…..