Old Leek

What a 24 hours it has been!

It started with me locking myself out of the house yesterday when I went to meet the children from the school bus (& get ice cream!) and having to pay some shady looking bloke in a tracksuit 70 Euros for him to get us back in with no more than a piece of plastic and some lubricant...It was actually quite frightening to see how quickly and easily he opened the door, I think we might need to invest in some new locks as he was in under 5 minutes.

This morning I made the mistake of taking 2 of the children to a garden centre (that sold animals!) to buy some animal food and I came away with 2 sulky children but no animals.

Whilst we were out I had an emergency phone call from Mrs Strang informing me that she and my other son were on their way to the emergency vet with the 2 guinea pigs after the dog had somehow got into their enclosure and mauled them. One of the guinea pigs is in pretty bad shape so it looks as though if she doesn't pull through we may get a rabbit after all! As I have promised my little girl we would get a rabbit when one of the other pets died (I told her that I was not prepared to have more pets in the house than people!)

Let's hope she recovers (the guinea pig), apparently the next 24 hours are crucial (they always say that on hospital dramas!!)