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squiggle posted:

Good morning everyone, a fairly bright morning, with hardly any breeze.  Keira sounds like she is still enjoying life despite some problems.  How old is she in human terms Yogi?

 

Enjoy your day everyone

Good morning Squiggle.

She’ll be 13 in a few weeks time, which is the human equivalent of a 91year old.

The vet said she is a good age for a golden retriever and she’s quite happy pottering about. She still engages with PB and BB and her appetite is good.

 

Yogi19
Yogi19 posted:
Moonie posted:
Yogi19 posted:

Good morning everyone

Weather is dry and frosty.

Keira’s hearing has been deteriorating for a couple of years but, yesterday, middle son and I noticed it seemed to be really bad.

As a pup, I trained Keira with a verbal command/hand signal combination and she responds to either type of command.

So, I’ve been testing her and it seems that she can’t hear very much at all and is responding to facial expressions and hand signals, not verbal commands.

She was toddling around the garden last night and was oblivious to me calling her, it was only when I went into her line of vision and used a hand signal that she responded. Mr Y has a loud voice so I asked him to call her when she couldn’t see him. She did react in a way which indicated she’d heard something but didn’t realise it was MrY calling her.

It doesn’t seem to be bothering her but it does mean she has to be looking at us, if we want to tell her to do anything.

 

Have a good day, everyone.

Hi Yogi πŸ€—β€οΈ

Poor Keira 😞

I guess it’s just old age. It’s a good job you did train her with a verbal command/hand signal combination

Will you be taking her to the vets tomorrow? 

I hope your day is a good one πŸ€—πŸ€—πŸ€—

Hi Moonie.

Her ear infection has cleared up but we are still using the drops to finish the treatment, and we’re continuing with the treatment for her skin, so I won’t take her to the vets just now. 

Good news about the ear infection 

 

Yogi19 posted:
squiggle posted:

Good morning everyone, a fairly bright morning, with hardly any breeze.  Keira sounds like she is still enjoying life despite some problems.  How old is she in human terms Yogi?

 

Enjoy your day everyone

Good morning Squiggle.

She’ll be 13 in a few weeks time, which is the human equivalent of a 91year old.

The vet said she is a good age for a golden retriever and she’s quite happy pottering about. She still engages with PB and BB and her appetite is good.

 

she is doing well then 

 

It’s lovely she is still engaging with the little ones 😊

Also that she is eating well too 😁😁😁

Still plenty of life in the old gal yet Yogi πŸ˜‰πŸ˜Š

Moonie
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Good morning everyone  

Cold and overcast here. Very windy 

So much to do but all dependent on when the gas service sntineer decides to make an appearance 

 

Yogi19 posted:
Moonie posted:
Yogi19 posted:

Have a lovely time at the Light Festival, Summer. The pics in El’s link look amazing.

 

Thanks everyone. Now we now how severe Keira’s deafness is, we can make some adjustments to help her out.

Awwww bless

She’ll be fine, Moonie, we’ll take good care of her.

I know you will Yogi 

 

Have a super day everyone

Moonie
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News that the team behind the two Paddington films will be making at least one live action film, possibly four, based on Enid Blyton's The Magic Faraway Tree series of books.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42053334

 

My parents didn't think much of Enid Blyton's books with the result that I read virtually nothing by her. I think there was one of her Noddy books though that might have been a story in a magazine rather than a book. There was one fantasy book which I found interesting as a child, but I can't remember what it was called or what it was about. And that's it.

El Loro

Afternoon all.

Moonie, I hope you didn’t have to stay in all day waiting on the boiler engineer.

Summer, you should definitely send them an email with your ideas for improving the light festival.

El, I loved Enid Blyton books but I can’t think to which one you are referring.

Squiggle, I hope your weather has improved. It has been damp and rainy up here and now it’s foggy.

Yogi19

Hi Yogi and El 

My boiler service engineer finally came at 12-33 

It took an hour to do the boiler, gas fire, check the gas stove, the fire alarms and do the paperwork. I say paperwork, all done on an iPad now. All in order and working perfectly. Had the heating on earlier. Had to turn it down a notch, it was so warm  

The gas service certificate comes by post from our council as we are a council property 

 

That’s that done for another year 

Moonie

Moonie, as Yogi says, I hope you haven't been kept waiting by the boiler engineer

 

Yogi, Enid Blyton wrote so many books that it would be near impossible to work out which one I read. I can't remember any of the detail though I think it had dwarfs or elves in which isn't much help. Even if someone found the title of it, it's too long ago for me to recognise it anyway

El Loro
Yogi19 posted:

Afternoon all.

Moonie, I hope you didn’t have to stay in all day waiting on the boiler engineer.

Summer, you should definitely send them an email with your ideas for improving the light festival.

El, I loved Enid Blyton books but I can’t think to which one you are referring.

Squiggle, I hope your weather has improved. It has been damp and rainy up here and now it’s foggy.

Most definitely Sweet. I have never known you have a bad idea yet 

Moonie
El Loro posted:
~Sweet Sequins & Sparkles~ posted:
El Loro posted:

Squiggle, that does sound like just the weather to make people stay indoors

 

Summer. that's a bit disappointing, they should ask you to organise it next time

I think so too, I could certainly add some extra magical touches

You could send them an email:
Lumiere@durham.gov.

Thank you El πŸ‘

 

~Sparkling Summer~

Evening πŸ¦‰ I hope you’ve all had a good day, I’ve been shopping with a friend this evening, finally made a start on Xmas gifts. I ended up coming home with wrapping paper for next Christmas though lol 

 

i vaguely recall enjoying the secret seven and famous famous five books and enjoying them, but I’ve long since forgotten the stories now. I’ll probably watch those new films though  

~Sparkling Summer~

Good morning everyone, again very overcast here, I think the forecast here is for a fairly miserable week just a touch warmer than last week.

 

Enid Blyton started off my reading bug, I couldn't get enough of her books when I was a child, and my daughter is the same, we are both bookworms.  I know she's not popular with the PC brigade but I shall ever be grateful to her, a real storyteller.

 

Enjoy your day everyone

squiggle

I think the weather forecast for all of is isn't that great this week.

 

Squiggle, I know what you mean about Enid Blyton. Another writer Rider Haggard (best known for King Solomon's Mines, She and Ayesha) wrote very exciting adventure stories. Although many of them were based in Africa, some were elserwhere. He, like other writers of those times, could be accused of colonial stereotypes but in his books the native people are treated with more dignity and sympathy than other writers. And his novel Nada the Lily proves that.

El Loro

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