Betty's bum! (and ears)

 I've just been outside planting up 2 more pots with Spring bulbs.....that's it now, I've run out of pots!  Actually, I've just realised there is one more.....I'd planted a hibiscus in it but it didn't do very well, I think it will do better planted in the ground, so that's what I'll do.....so another pot!  I think I might get some winter flowering heathers to brighten up the front of the house, it looks a bit bare now the geraniums and fuschias have finished.  I do like a bit of colour.  My one dahlia in the back garden is still flowering really well, it's got gorgeous bright pink flowers streaked with white.  I'll have some more dahlias next year, they give so much colour at the end of summer and into autumn, when other things are dying off.

We're taking Betty to the new vet this afternoon, she's having trouble with her ears again so is most likely brewing another infection.  She also needs her anal glands emptying - our previous friendly vet who we were with for years did suggest, laughing, that we could do it ourselves.....not blimmin likely, it's messy and stinks to high heaven 😱.  Betty seems to be thriving on the new healthy diet I'm giving her, I think she's lost a little bit of weight (we'll find out at the vets) which is good as she was very chunky before.  She still is chunky, but that's her natural appearance, chunky and solid.  She's just had a zoomy, whizzing around the lounge, hall and my bedroom, leaping on and off the bed, her tail tucked between her legs and bottom held low, very funny to watch.  Now she's flat out on the bed, having burned off that excess energy.  She's having white fish tonight, I cooked then flaked it and mixed it with a little canned tuna in oil, grated raw carrot, some mashed cooked sweet potato and a spoonful of cooked brown rice, she loves it and licks her dish clean.

Husband's having a chicken breast wrapped in bacon, I've got a small cod steak in parsley sauce, we'll have half a jacket potato each and a pile of green veggies.  I've had no bread and very few starchy carbs this week and am feeling the benefits already, the puffy face and bloated stomach are going down and my joints are aching less.  I'm also peeing for England! (you really wanted to know that, didn't you?! 😂).

Husband enjoyed his gym session yesterday, I'd told him to take it easy as he hadn't been for several weeks since his GP referral course ended.  He says starting next week he wants to go 3 times a week, which will do him good.  I'll take the opportunity on one of those days to be dropped off in town, so I can have a mooch around the shops by myself, a rare treat without him breathing down my neck, exclaiming at all the prices and asking "Are you finished yet?" every 5 minutes.

I did the banking yesterday, made out a new budget starting from next month and including regular payments into 2 savings accounts, we're going to be so much better off now we've got rid of the caravan.  I've made out a list of things I want to buy for the house and garden, it'll be so satisfying crossing them off each time we've got one.