Retirement with No Problem

Moored St Neots, River Great Ouse

Still here we are, in the park.  It’s quite nice really.. there seems to be no hassle about ‘moving on’ and no signs to say how long we are allowed to stay either.  That is quite handy.. me thinks we will have to visit a lot in the next couple of weeks..

The news from the vet was not good today, Lucy had some xrays done and they showed that the hip ball has slipped even further out of the socket, and is on the edge of that… sooooooooooo decisions made, she will have another op to cut away the ball joint.  But that can’t happen for another two weeks, the only vet able to perform that op at the surgery I chose, is busy this week, then next week he is on holiday, and I ain’t about to put Lucy through another load of xrays and stuff at a different vets just to get it done quicker.

‘Tis a pity the first op didn’t work, but I am happier, to be honest, that she is having this next op.. I have been worried about Lucy going walking, in fact we have not been walking really since the accident last May.. and looking at the xrays today I have been right not to go across country with her.

She will have the op and then the vet said that Lucy is to get as much excercise as possible, no cage rest after this one… hoo flippin ray.. at least she can do what she loves to do, and so can I without all the worry about it dislocating.

On Monday Vic has to go to the hospital in Oxford again to see the specialist about the circulation in his legs… sheeeeeeesh!!  It’s all happening!

If the weather is OK tomorrow we might pop downstream to Godmanchester for the weekend before returning here on Sunday evening so we can catch the bus to Oxford.. there is an express to there from St Neots, saves going through London, anyway I have some post to collect.

The camera is working again this evening!

Vic made it work.  He got hold of it and gave it a good banging… “Nothing to lose” says he… it went all shuddery then froze.. stuck in the on position, so I removed the batteries and put them back in again and hey presto… it was working perfectly.  I did some test photos late this evening, nothing in particular, just to see, and everything is fine… will take some tomorrow for the blog… Ha saves filling out the insurance form.

Great market day here today in St Neots.. I got some shorts and lightweight threequarter length trousers.. well I gotta hope there is still some summer left!