Thanks for all your kind comments about Becky and myself, except of course Sarah who whinged and whined and took a week off from her new job but still wishes to be matyred now I'm not well !!!!

Yesterday morning I went to pick her highness up from work we then went to Shields (North Shields) to buy new phones for us both. I fell for one in the O2 shop which I bought; Sarah saw one she liked but didn't have her debit card so couldn't get it. We went to the Tmobile shop which wasn't any better! Anyway after a few more shops we went to Morrison's I can't remember why or even what we (I) bought but I was intending to buy petrol and check the tyre pressure. When I got back to the car Becky's wound was bleeding, I started driving whilst Sarah phoned the vet. The vet's about 15-20 miles away not much distance but we left Morrisons at 11:11am and had to get there by half past! Firstly the traffic was crawling on Beach Road, then I had to drive to Newcastle, I was doing eighty most of the way, there again most people go faster! In the 30 and 40mph sections I didn't speed but luckily the heavy traffic was moving steadily. Once through Newcastle I broke the limit again but got to the vet's at 11:31. The vet looked at Becky's wound said it was ok, but she was going to have to be coned! Trouble is they only had huge cones or tiny ones so she put one on and suggested that I go to a local vets to try to get another one. So we did the journey in reverse just in the speed limit and got to the local vets just as they were closing £8+ later Becky has a cone that fits.

After all this Sarah wanted to continue the phone search so off we went to Tesco's ( have I ever said I hate shopping? I do I hate it especially with Sarah who loves it and will have me taxiing her from centre to centre :evil. She wanted to go back to Shields but when we pulled onto the Coast Road it was solid - yet another crash in the usual place. When we finally got moving I refused to go to any more shops so Sarah decided she'd go out with her friend to Whitley Bay for the night something about it being a bubble party at Deep. So of course I had to take her, the traffic was still all snarled up so I came home the long way round. What a day!!!!

So now we have a happy lively Becky cannoning to everything including the ground at full speed. Both of us have nearly been knocked over by her! It'll be fun when Richard comes back tonight!

I didn't hear any knocks last night but saw quite a lot of trick or treaters as I was on the other end of the lead to a crashing Becky. There were loads of fireworks but for once she didn't react maybe the cone deadens the noise, we'll have them for weeks now ( that's another thing I hate fireworks, if they have to exist there should only be displays and only on 1 night - the neighbours complain when I've got the TV on loud for weeks!!!) This morning when I was walking Becky she seemed to have got used to the cone but she was walking with her face pointing up so all the torrential rain was pouring through her cone!

Most Haunted was unbelievable especially when Karl was hung from the gallows - that was horrifying!