Hurray! Found my settings, at last!

I was even thinking about starting a new blog, but finally, I have my settings again. What a pain. Still, at least I should be able to dredge up a few things to post. On the other hand, as 260,000 words of MA dissertations and projects arrived for me on Saturday, I may be rather busy marking. Added to this, I have my German exams on 5th October and my Creative Writing ECA to *cough* write (I was going to say 'finish', but why fib?) by 6th October. Oh yes, and I'm behind with some other marking, so I'll be frantically trying to finish that over the next couple of days, too. Still, the light at the end of the tunnel is a trip to Germany later in four weeks, by which time all my deadlines will have passed and I will be FREE!!!! Oh happy day.

The sad recent news is that our second oldest (but still not old enough) cat, Pickle, had to be put-down on Thursday evening. He had been going downhill for some time, kept going with the odd vitamin and antibiotic injections, but he suddenly deteriorated to the extent that he was not likely to recover. He was fighting for breath and had fluid on the lungs and had also been attacked by another animal, causing a horrendous wound and loss of the use of his tail. He could barely walk on that last day. The vet, who has two cats himself, was very sympathetic, knowing how much we would miss him, but he had to recommend euthanasia for Pickle's sake. There was no talk of cost, but I suspect that the vet already realised that if there were any hope, we would pay, but that we wouldn't really be able to afford it. Somehow, a few weeks before, I already knew that we wouldn't be taking Pickle with us when we moved to Germany, but I didn't want to think about it then.