It’s hot, hot, hot….

Summer has finally arrived, with a scorching 28c this weekend. With the weather so nice, I sat out on our new patio and read a book on the Ipad - until the Ipad got too hot and told me to put it somewhere cool (ingenious gadget). Saturday we relaxed, watched TV and went food shopping. Sunday I cleaned the patio, and washed all the garden furniture while Ian filled some holes on the outside of our house (although still more to fill), in an effort to dull the road noise. We also did some other chores, such as put the black weed stopper material on the roof garden, as a storm had managed to blow it off! Saturday and Sunday also gave us two huge thunder storms – which for the first time also made us have headaches and feel really weird.

Ian was also being careful, after he ate a biscuit, which managed to break his tooth in half. We found a new dentist in Vienna (this would be my third – as I still have not found a really nice dentist that I like – I’m very particular).Anyway he went on Friday and he had his tooth pulled out. They even gave him laser treatment on his gums to help, and a little massage on his neck and ears to simulate healing and his immune system…..a massage at the dentist…I’m soo going to try that one!

It is now Monday and I’m slightly bored. My team is all out of the office, and I listening to music whilst trying to work, but the motivation is lacking today. Plus the network has gone down, so I can’t send emails or open any documents…boring! I can hear a colleague asking our IT guys if we can go home! Plus for some reason I’m really tired, even though I fell asleep on the couch at 9pm last night, and after many attempts Ian made me go to the bedroom…I was zonked!

I could be designing a brochure in InDesign, putting a photo essay together, or arranging an exhibition, but I need my boss’s feedback, and she isn’t here, of and the network to work. Tomorrow is a busy day with putting up an exhibition, arranging a briefing from our department to all the Member States, and then attending a meeting on behalf of my department of the annual general conference.

The good news is that I have Friday off work, and then Thursday and Friday the following week, and then Monday a week after that, and then maybe Thursday and Friday the week after that….I have decided to take small sporadic holiday throughout summer, with maybe a full week in August.

We are happy to report that Neo is still getting better; we are like proud parents when he sat on his favourite chair and decides to sleep with us at night….the little things means he is getting back to normal. We, again, go to the vets on Friday. He still is not eating his biscuits, so we are buying him an array of different wet food to tickle his taste buds!

Neo, Neo, Neo...... What are we going to do with you?

Apologies for not writing for so long, but we have been busy with constantly taking Neo to the vets it seems. Last week, Neo went into the Vets for an MRI scan, followed by an operation as the scan showed his middle ears were full of something. After investigation, the surgeon found both ears to be full of tissue and liquid; the sample had to be sent to the UK for analysis as it was a puzzle to them. Fortunately, it is infection and polyps. Thursday night we met Sherry, as she was over in Vienna for 2 days. Really lovely to see her, although she had to endure a trip to the vets to pick Neo up, but it was nice to see her and catch up with their new life in Kenya. Ian even taught his mum to fly a helicopter.

We picked Neo up at the vets only to find the poor kitty shaven from chin to chest with 2 wounds on his neck (the only way to get to his ears). He looked miserable, but soooooo happy to see us. Lots of head-butting and rolling around. We took him home and then said our farewells to Sherry at the airport.

The weekend after was spent looking after Neo, who spent 2 days being super friendly and really wanting to eat, but unfortunately not actually managing to eat……so Monday, yes you have guessed it, he went back to the vets after Ian worked from home and noticed he still couldn’t eat and was miserable. He was at the clinic all week. The MRI scan was sent to the USA for their opinion, and the vet said he has brain swelling and that it is affecting his eating. So happily we picked him up on Friday to take him home. Luckily the vets did not install a tube to feed him through, as he had started to try and eat. …..poor guy. Hopefully the brain swelling will go down and maybe he will remember/be able to eat again, as that is Neo’s favourite past time.
So a cat fantastic week.

Neo decided he liked his cage after coming home from the vets

Last weekend we went to the Czech Republic for what we thought was a refund after a Google translated text message seemed to say our patio tiles were no longer available. Luckily after some interpreting from Ian, the tiles were on a crate in the yard waiting for us. So the patio is now nearly finished, with just some sand/cement to fill the cracks this weekend, and then it is BBQ time just in time as the weather is warming up to 26c.

Ian got his hand stuck in a pringles tube!