This is Rosemary, our new kitten, who arrived while I was away in Germany. She came from the animal shelter and seems to have been the runt of the litter as she was extremely nervous and tiny when she arrived. We think she is younger than they told us but actually they didn’t know as the mother and litter were dumped on their doorstep. We never did find Hazel again though the door is open should she choose to return.
Getting a cat from the animal shelter is a very good deal as they are delivered treated and sterilised for about £70, a snip compared to what we spent on vaccinations and operations on Hazel. The only drawback is that Rosemary is not old enough to be sterilised so we will have a long journey back to go to the animal shelter vet (it is south of Aarhus).
The weather in Germany, just south of Cologne, was very warm, the beds at the monastery which was our hotel were quite hard. This was the final meeting of this particular project and we ended up discussing what we could try next. But for that we need to do a lot of preparatory work and get our idea (whatever it turns out to be) approved by the EU so the earliest start date for another project with this group would be autumn 2007. We didn’t have that much to do this time as the project team has been very efficient and effective during the previous 3 years of the lifetime of the project and we mainly needed to help with writing the final report.
Mia continues with her violin lessons but has yet to see the value of practising in between lessons. She thinks that Brownies/Beavers is great and we have had to rush out and buy the uniform as she is REALLY COMMITTED! Let’s hope so.
Gwen’s black eye saga has been brought to an end. We finally persuaded the scool that this was an issue worth meeting about and got an apology from the perpetrator. The PTA are taking up the issue of guidelines for when parents should be informed of incidents so we can’t really ask for more though we are convinced that a few ‘misunderstandings’ linger on.