Poundland Drug Deal.

I think I was mistaken for a drug addict today.
I was in " Poundland" looking for cheap carpet cleaner ( please dont tell the Prof) when I caught one of the store staff giving me a dirty look.
Admittedly I wasn't looking at my best , but You don't dress up for poundland do you?
I picked my carpet cleaner, added a tin of fabreeze in a fit of extravagance and was at the till when the store woman gave me another funny look.
I saw her glance at my shirt pocket, and then I knew why she looked like a bulldog chewing a toffee

For in my pocket were three syringes full of anti emetic medication  I had collected from the vets this morning in readiness for me to inject Meg with over the next day or so.

Que Sera Sera

Oh dear...yesterday I was all a bit like this

Wasn't I?

I am a bit more 

Like this today.... Thank fuck for that!

Sleep, nice weather and some perspective has given me back a little of the old Doris Day " Que Sere Sera"......I think a break has helped too. Instead of dinosaur mayhem, we took ourselves off to the cinema at Broughton and sat through the rather gentle " Mr Holmes" which is a deligtful panacea to mundane home crap!

 

 Mr Holmes is set in 1940's Dover, where the famous detective is living a quiet country life alongside his bees. Frail, and going senile, Sherlock ( Ian McKellen) is cared for by his unhappy housekeeper Mrs Monroe  ( Laura Linney) and her bright son Roger ( Milo Parker) and it is through Roger's inquisitive nature that 93 year old is able to resolve his last major case and come to some mental peace in the twilight of his life

At first I wasn't sure that Mr Holmes , was working for me, as the traumatic battle Sherlock' has with his memory has a completely different pace to the flashbacks he experiences of the former Edwardian mystery and an odd recalled trip to a post bomb Hiroshima but like all Sherlock Holmes' mysteries , everything dovetails together rather nicely by the end.
McKellen is simply wonderful in the title role, as is Parker, who holds his own rather well against the old trooper, their scenes together have a weight and a heart that drives the narrative forward so well.
Laura Linney in the rather difficult role as the practical and uneducated mother provides the perfect foil for Mc Kellen's sharpness and is rather moving in her scenes with him.

Its a lovely film
8/10

Time Out

My heart isn't here.
It isn't on the Flower Show either or anything else for that matter.

Tomorrow, I think we may go and watch a dinosaur movie as a distraction
And I think I won't blog anything for a day or so.
Meg is deteriorating, I know that- but I will continue trying with food and antibiotics and with cleaning up shit.
Chris has worked so hard 6 days out of 7 this week and bless him he is away all of next week.....so it's up to me to review things after the course of antibiotics finish.

I know in the great scheme of things it's only a story about an old Welsh Terrier.
But she's my old Welsh Terrier........and it hurts....

Back in a while ......ok?

The Flower Show Goes On Facebook

The Trelawnyd Flower Show has now got it's own FACEBOOK page!

See

Trelawnyd FaceBook Page

Keep your novelty vegetable entries coming in too!

So far I have recieved 5 ......

I will post them on Going Gently when I have a few more

Please send them to

jgsheffield@hotmail.com

" Can I Thrust By......I'm A Diabetic !"

Now I can't say who it is

But in the village we have a character just like the woman in the red beret

If only she came out with these one liners

Exhausted

I can't get Meg to eat.
I've bought expensive food from the vets.....from the supermarket and from the pet store.
I've cooked chicken and rice
Lean mince in a light gravy
And have even offered her favourite bits of dry toast........
She's turned her nose up to everything every time....so much so, that I could of, and did cry!

The light went on this evening at Tescos
When I bought her a chicken and mushroom pasty
One of those cheap shitty ones that you may eat after 5 pints of beer

She ate the fucking lot!

The Gnashing Of Gums

Now, I have to put this in my own words, but as far as I can understand it, the Church of Wales has recently been bumping it's gums over the knotty issue of gay marriage.
Over the entire country the Welsh Church dioceses have been " consulting" with their Deaneries, Parishes and with individuals and Bishop Gregory, (who looks a bit like Richard Griffith from the Harry Potter movies) has given his report on the findings from this area.
It makes for an interesting and  rather ambiguous read.
As far as I can see, the Welsh Church is banging on whether to accept gay marriage or not. Ok it has put out feelers towards the patronising and second class offer to bless civil ceremonies in Church ( that's big of them! ) but the general thrust of the discussion is centred around the whole concept of "marriage"
The Bishop recieved two Deanery responses, ten Parish responses and only 15 personal responses and although his exploration of this feedback looked remarkable thorough, I think he and the Church in Wales has missed the point.
GAY MARRIAGE is now the LAW OF THE LAND...plain and simple....and in law I am now a married person.....I have the paperwork , just like any other married person to prove it. The Church HAS to change if it is to survive. If a popular Bishop recieves just fifteen personal responses to this debate , doesn't that tell him something?
Most people are just not arsed with the whole thing....bleeding hell you would get more resonse about changing the colour of the rubbish bins than you would about the Church allowing two poofs to kiss down the aisle......apathy is a big leveller
So Bishop Gregory get real eh?.....Change with the times me old son.......you now use facebook and twitter and you seem like a pretty likable old guy......time to move on to worry about bigger things eh?
Gay is sooooo last season anyway

Link to Bishop Gregory's findings

Old Girl

My old girl is poorly.

The xray showed some sort of  mass on her liver

Her bloodwork may support this.

I've already said no to any surgical input, so it's a change of antibiotics (!)

and a case of watching if things will change in the short term.

She's eaten some chicken but only because the other dogs were begging for it

and now she's asleep.

They break your heart