Babara came calling for Al today but he was in London, she had a rabbit she had tried to kill herself as Tim (the cat) had broken its leg. It was in a bit of a state and I ended up holding it whilst she hit it witht he baseball bat - guess who got covered in blood 🙁
Poor thing - I concede it needed to be killed and that this was the quickest kindest way but I feel bad 🙁 I wouldnt have let Al do it if he had been here anyway due to his 'proper' vegitarianism. Of course if I'd found it with a broken leg like that I would have probably done the selfish thing and have in a box munching lettice at the mo hoping it just might recover.
It was such a lovely looking thing too and it was warm and soft 🙁 Still at least I know I'll never starve as I can do these things even if I hate them and will probably have nightmares over it! Also it didnt go to waste - Tim has since eaten most of it and if Babara hadnt found him playing with it he would have just worried it to death.
Well I found a mystery partially crushed olive on the window sill in the kitchen - now me and Al have puzzeled over this - surely it is the one from the 'sink disastor' but how did it get there? It was undernieth stuff from before mum and dad came to visit! - roll on music from Fortean TV.
There there was the watering can - Babara kept asking me if it was difficult for me to fill the watering can up - I kept saying I always refilled it after use - this carried on with her getting annoyed that she had even given me a hose and I still hadnt bothered to refill and me getting really annoyed that she had obviouslly forgotten to refill it and then kept blaming me! However, it turns out that the watering can happened to have a slow leak! So it was fine if used shortly after being filled but not if left for any amount of time!
Last night, I dreampt I was having a heart attack - horrid pains in my left arm, then I was taken to a hospital and wired into monitors and had a drip inserted, again into my left arm - then I woke up to find that I'd fallen asleep with my left arm bent into an uncomfortable position and it was in agony!
It always fascinates me, how the human mind manages to weave external stimuli into our dreams like that. The classic case is when somebody is shouting at you to wake up or an alarm clock goes off, and your brain weaves it into your dream for a few seconds before you come round...
Jean has not yet started crewling though she ended up somewhere today that could mean she has just started but thats not the impressive thing - we were changing her and things for bed and she got upset so we were sitting with her on the floor in her room when she took it into her head to crab her cot and pull herself up so she was standing!!!!
Makes us wonder if she's going to skip crawling altogether 🙂
I have just come after 3 hrs of removing goose3grass, willow herb, thistles, ground elder and stinging nettles from the headge along the drive with Al and Babara. They are still out there even though it is getting dark!
We have shifted about 10 barrow loads of the stuff and we dont have a small wheel barrow!
I hurt! I fell in the ditch but then I was supposed to be in the ditch anyway! My wellys made a bid for freedom everytime I tried to move my feet 🙁
Worryingly there appears to be lots of bell bind - Babara has another name for it but its a creeper thats a real menace - really pretty bell shaped flower and green heart shaped leaves. Once you've got it its murder to get rid of and has a nasty tendancy to choke all the plants you do want!
Anyway time for a well earned dinner now!
Animals | sarah | 
Thu 15th Jun 2006 7:22 pm | 
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