Up to now

Well it all started with a couple of Vet friends telling us that our Earl the cat could have a burn off on his nose where over the years the UV had caused lesions in his nose.  already treated before they both thought it would get by with another treatment.  off we went one morning Earl and I and Lo, he needed to have the end of his nose removed!  2 days and $700 later home we went with a really flaked out cat.  Back we came the next day because of dehydration and how he'd lost weight from 5.1 kg to 4.7. well we went back and forth for a couple of days but eventually his appetite picked up now that he could start to smell again.  he had all sorts of tasty teas and at all sorts of times.  but now we have Earl back although he still snuffles and grunts a bit.  No photo's he says, wait 'till the stitch has fallen out.

Fortunately all that cat stuff happened before we had our planned weekend in the City, giving us a few days of a reasonably well cat before our day at the Heritage Hotel in Town for our 30th wedding anniversary.   

As you can tell from our "Studio suite" the place was absolutely lovely for our stay.  we supplemented the free bubbly with lots of tasty stuff,  enjoyed the rooftop spa and 20m pool on the rooftop and in the dark sky we were able to look up at the light show on the Skytower above and quite close.  

We visited our usual city Irish Pub (part of the Heritage set-up)for our beef and guinness pies and shopped ourselves to a near standstill. afternoon tea in Borders of course.

hitting the pool and spa on sunday morn was just the stuff! but soon we were on the road again and home.

Next week the weather changed from showers to frosty.  at 100m above sealevel and the rest of the city our place never gets frost.  Well it did this time  see the fog over the city from the lookout on the coldest day.  Well I thought so but the paper said the next day was colder, well whatever, it came down to 2 degrees in our garden on a number of days that week.