Malbridge House

Last Thursday was spent at home, Mum came up for most of the day, she brought Abby, her Bichon with her, for those of you who don’t know that’s a breed of dog! Rather like a poodle, always white. She’s twelve years old ad Mum didn’t want to leave her on her own now that the other two had gone.

Thursday night was awful, we’ve had problems with Gypsy our Yorkie for a while, she couldn’t jump onto the sofa and use to stand and whine until somebody picked her up, then she started doing it at night until you picked her up and put her on the bed. We did this about eight times until 4am, we could bear it no more and we sat downstairs with her, she led on the sofa and just whined and whined and we didn’t know what was wrong with her.

Friday morning we made an appointment at the vets.

The children and I went to Mums with, Med, Tula and Gypsy, had a lovely morning pottering around in the garden. I picked Malc up from work at dinnertime. Mum had the children whilst Malc and I went to the vets, he said she was old and going a bit senile and recommended putting her to sleep, which is what we did. Malc was devastated, Gypsy was his puppy and use to snuggle in bed with him during the day because he worked nights. I use to search the house for her to take her for a walk and there she’d be in his arms under the duvet. Malc also use to have a "parka" and before she had her injections and she was allowed on the ground we use to walk the dogs with Gypsy in the hood of the parka.

It was the same vet that had put my Mums dogs to sleep and he was lovely. He remembered my Mum and the dogs. He asked why they were all going and we said that we bought them all as puppies within six months of each other, that’s why the were all  going at the same time, they were all quite old. In a way it’s fitting, they all ran around as puppies together and we’ve had some fabulous times with them, now they can all run around where-ever they are together again.

Onto today because I’m starting to well-up.

We didn’t do a lot of school work last week nobody really felt like it, but yesterday and today the children have done an hour of workbooks to get them back into the swing of things.

Some old friends visited my Mum yesterday in the afternoon so we went to see them.

They did some more work this morning and then this afternoon we went to Mums to cut her front lawn, my brother and his girlfriend were there so it was lovely to see them.

The children have done their Sketch Tuesdays.

Eden did two, this week they had to draw something sweet.

Callums

His was a jar of sweets and Clarks was a bar of chocolate.

Tomorrow is shopping and apparently it’s going to be a hot one, so more frolics in the garden I would imagine.