where does time go?????

Sorry for not updating this blog for the last 2 months... Just where does time go ?

Old age or a dodgy back certainly helps blur one day into the other but I am ashamed at not updating this as I seemed to start off so well,lol.

So over the last 2 months what has been happening in the chez teather household?
Well i was expecting the son home from uni for a freebie 6 months before going back to uni in september but along with 6 of his friends they have got another house to share so it now looks as if he has moved out completly... heaven...

Went to the download festival which for the oldies reading this it is the renamed monsters of rock at donnington. Hard going with the back but the facilities for the disabled provided by live nation were absolutly phernominal... really pleased. I doubt i'd go again for health, money, mobillity issues but if you have a son / daughter who wants ot go then you can let them go with a sense of security that they will be ok. Obviously I'll put a disclaimer here but for a festival it was really, really x3 well done.

Veg patch that mrs T built is holding up and producing masses of fruit and veg which we reckon has / will save us over £300 over the year so that has been a boom.

One downer is the dog, Tinks the red setter needs an operation to remove a small lump under his skin. £300 at least and then they asked if I wanted the vet to give him a saline drip to aid recovery, pain killers and things like that...! all of course had to be paid for on top of the £300 estimate but the really gauling thing that has me bitterly dissapointed with the vets is that we have to pay upfront then claim it back of the insurance company.

I've been a regular, faithful cutomer of this vets practise for over 40 years, YES 40 YEARS and they won't let me pay for the op a few weeks after it's done. We used to bread greyhounds so the vet was at our house so much he was a family friend. An average bill back then in the mid 80's was around £400 a month, every month but loyalty doesn't pay these days it seems.

So much so that we will be going to the PDSA and asking them to do the op and pay up front to them but hopefully as a charity they will be cheaper. I will be fund raising for them as well as a way of saying thanks..

Right off to watch the golf to see if Tom Watson can pull off another open win...