In which I tie up a few loose ends, and the Magpie Cat is diagnosed with renal failure.

The Magpie Cat has renal failure. She's an old cat, so it's not entirely unexpected.

She spent the night at the vet's recently having blood and urine samples and a thorough investigation. I was pretty sure what the outcome was going to be. Now she has a very flash renal diet and will have follow up bloods in a few weeks time to see if it's working.

The hard part is that she's such a vacuum cleaner, it's difficult to get the Tail Cat's left overs out of the way before she comes looking for them!

Anyhow, we are experienced at dealing with renal failure at our place.




I finished the sheep jumper last week. After the longest stretch of sewing in ends!!!

I took it into Janine at The Black Sheep wool shop in town to choose some buttons.

Here is the finished article. I love it.

Don't know what I'll do with it. Probably just keep it in the cupboard and admire it every now and then. I just get so excited every time I finish something!!! But there is some law of physics existing that means when you finish something, the net sum of unfinished projects remains the same. Because you have started at least one more in the meantime!

Does this happen at your place Blog Chics?

A fox in socks?

No.... just a Magpie Cat in full repose. Doing what she does best. I actually did the knitting, in case you were wondering. I didn't mean that knitting was what the Magpie cat does best. In fact she does none at all. Not very good at ironing either!

I'm very pleased with how these socks have turned out. I haven't made the crocheted violas yet to embellish them with.




All photos taken at night this week blog chics because I have been busy gardening or working during the day. The lawns are growing like Topsy and require mowing once a week at least, and the weeds are not far behind.

Remind me slightly of 1980s leg warmers, but I think I can get away with it on op-shopping days. With my nana crocheted bag, I won't look out of place at all, and I'll have very warm legs!!!

Thanks for stopping in today Blog Chics. I ordered the lovely botanical fabric with raspberry hydrangeas for my couch re-cover. But it doesn't get here till the beginning of November.

Slightly disappointing, as I was so looking forward to it being done. But something to look forward to I guess.