On the Road Again!

It started back on Thursday the 17th.  We were due to go to my brother's house to see the family and in the morning I had my usual visit to the the greyhound rescue. Firstly, as there were some workmen working in the barn at the rescue I was cancelled.  I was still in bed enjoying a lie-in when Claire called up to me. Reggie had been in the garden and she saw him eating something.  It looked pink.  I dressed and ran down.  Checking a few crumbs on the deck it looked like the "cakes" of poison we put under the decking as we are awash with rats.  Their runs and tunnels go under the raised beds in the garden into next door and far and wide.   Earlier picture of Reggie! I don't like the idea of poison as I feel it might get into the food chain.  Rats are particularly hunted by foxes locally. Also, any dead ones will be eaten by carrion birds and we have lots of crows, jackdaws and magpies. I don't want to be poisoning whole species of wildlife....

Have had a bad headache for the better part of 36 hours. Went to the docs and sent on to the ER. Been here six hours in William Harvey. Great care from all the staff but no nearer yet finding out what is the cause Tramadol are quite slowly working. Updated:  In the end after an MRI scan and a cardiogram they decided that maybe the problem was associated with my ear infection of a couple of weeks ago and maybe sinusitis or migraine. I already suffer from a version of migraine where I have the headache and associated flashing aura and tunnel vision.   Usually I pop a couple of pink Migraleve and in a couple of hours we can kiss the problem good bye. If caught early enough, then it is gone quicker. This time it is different. Five days since the headache started and it is still pulsing through my head but the drugs seem to have lessened the pain. The hospital said that if the headaches continued into or even beyond the weekend that I should contact my...

Don't bother gritting the pavement. Who the f*ck walks?