I was planning to write this shortly after my last post but I’ve been under so much stress over the last few months I didn’t feel much like writing and then it suddenly all caught up with me a few days ago and I’ve felt decidedly poorly!

About a month ago I decided to venture to a local ringcraft class. It’s something I’ve been wanting to do for a while but it’s late on a Tuesday evening and I didn’t really want to do that on a week I had Cannington. I had a free week so I seized the opportunity!

I had no idea what to expect, I didn’t expect to get the same feeling I had at the show but I hoped to feel at least comfortable. It didn’t go as I’d hoped, I felt really uncomfortable. It didn’t help that there was a girl (about 10 or 11?) who kept standing right next to me trying to talk. I’m not too bad with children under 7 but anything older (up until sometime in their 20s I think!) makes me very nervous! My people skills are very underdeveloped and I never had much contact with teenagers as a teenager so they’re definitely a foreign species 😆

Also even though they’re usually very regular the breeder I’d hoped to speak to wasn’t there so that was a bit frustrating. Did see some gorgeous dogs though 😉 I came out feeling rather lost and not sure if I could ever bring myself to go back in there again!

 A couple of weeks after that I had a hospital appointment which went well, though it’s not something that belongs in detail on a public weblog!

The next couple of weeks were fairly uneventful I think. My guinea pigs are still on my mind a lot, I seem to be finding it hard to come to terms with – particularly Molly. It would have been Molly and Meg’s 6th birthday on the 12th March and she was on my mind for most of that day. I feel guilty that I feel so much more strongly towards her than Meg but then I had Molly a longer and she was the last of my first pigs which will always be special. The fact she died the day before my 18th birthday makes it somehow more special too.

Ever since the “meeting” with the breeder which didn’t happen (ie bumping into each other at the ringcraft class!) I’ve been agonising over it. At first I was going to go to the class again and hope she was there but the earliest I could make it was the Tuesday just gone (13th) and considering she’d been to Crufts and Toy Day was Sunday this year I thought she quite possibly wouldn’t be there so I decided to leave it. As it happens I wasn’t well enough to go anyway. I have all her contact details from the pap club website but I just can’t bring myself to do it. I just don’t know what to do. I also keep wondering if it’s the right thing to do but it can’t do any harm to continue down this route for now even if I decide it’s not right later.

But I’ve saved the big major exciting news for last! That’s because it was the last thing to happen but still 😆 last Friday (9th) the builder rang – right on schedule! – to say they were almost finished and they would drop their equipment off Monday or Tuesday to start digging holes on Wednesday. Monday came and went, Tuesday came and went…nothing! So on Wednesday morning dad rang him to find out what was happening. Apparently the project he’s working on at the moment is for some people that are “whilst you’re here….” kind of people! So just when the poor chap thought he’d finished they would find another job for him. However he said he’d drop the stuff round that day and just before 4pm they turned up! So now we have a cement mixer, wheelbarrow and various panels and bits of wood as well as a few other bits all over our lawn! Most exciting 🙂

They’re going to start today (unlikely I think) or Monday because it’s bad luck to start a project on a Friday, or so he says 😉 I can’t believe it’s finally here though all the waiting is driving me mad now it’s so close.

Of course there will be regular updates and pictures 😀 Must take some of my pond too – you should see it, all you can see is piles of little black squiggly tadpoles!