Is it really any surprise, given the culture?

Oh no! It’s been quite nice here, clear now. Hopefully they’ll show.

I have always been a bit in love with the word aviatrix.

There’s no medical reason, it’s just how she is. Even before my father died, I guess it didn’t annoy me so much before as she didn’t want to speak to me every day when she had him to burble at.

This is pretty damning: interviewing two young Japanese women and asking if there is anything that would convince them to get married.

Thank you. We’re getting there. Finally. I hope.

I’m so sorry to hear that. I hope the treatments are useful, I believe that they can be for many men.

Make sure you look after yourself, in all that you have going on right now.

Sounds, er, well, pretty shit, tbh. I think I prefer the hedgie obsessive version.

Bit of both, I think. Initial aggro and then turns into compulsion. I can often divert by putting my hand over and letting him lick/chew it, but then I need to go and wash the slobber off and back to square one.

I thought I was really onto something with the towel/cone combo, but he developed a hint of a cough so I mixed that for general lying on the sofa. Ditto boot then he got the rubbed patch.

I mean, compared to some of the others….

It really is. I relax occasionally, when he’s curled up next to me asleep, then suddenly he’s gnawing again and argh.

Samantha, if I must.

I’m mostly so bloody tired and sick of having to play 4D chess every time I want to go to the loo / do a small task around the house.

Nothing on the camera so far! Working hypothesis is that he doesn’t want to risk my stopping giving him the time of day, and that is a tax I’m prepared to pay.

I’m not sure if it’s better or worse when she does it even though you were there vs her telling you about something that happened to a friend (whom you have not met) of a friend (whom you met once at age five).

In better news, Dog’s scab/proud skin tag under his claw came off today, and the claw is fully grown in on one side and half (healthily) grown in on the other.

It’s possible that if I can just keep on top of putting cream on (and keeping tongue off) the rubbed patch for another week or two then this might, finally, be over.

Dilemma: keep using boot to protect claw a bit longer, or stop using boot to help rubbed patch improve? I think he can’t get his mouth on the rubbed patch when wearing the current iteration of the Defensive System, but I worry that in trying he will scrape it with the edge of his cone(s).

D’you think it counts as genocide? We could get an awareness month and everything.

[citation needed]

Does yours also simultaneously not listen to anything you say and annoyingly repeat everything three or four times in a row, thus forcing you to be equally annoying if you want to get something into medium-term memory storage?

I dread to think what it will be like is she ever starts to have actual memory problems, rather than just not be paying attention.

I’ve told you to stop filming my house, Hebs!

On the phone, so I’m reduced to going “Mummummum let me finish”.