THE LURGY HITS HOME!

 

Hello everyone,

Did I say yesterday I`m glad that I have a cold?  I must have been mad because today I feel awful, talk about not speaking too soon!  I feel as though my legs don`t belong to me and walking Jake this afternoon was a real effort, still, it`s better to get it over with.  I just hope the cough won`t get any worse.  I`ll just keep dosing myself up and drinking plenty of fluids, carrying on with the Echinacea, cod liver oil and multi-vitamins for the cold-ravaged over fifties...lol!

                                    

It`s cold amd miserable outside, though the day started with a heavy frost.  It`s really overcast and damp now and it chills me through and through.  I don`t mind the cold at all, it`s the damp I hate...so does my arthritis for that matter...Oh never mind me, I just feel sorry for myself today, I shall stop complaining immediately!

                              

This morning I decided to sit down and watch a DVD.  Jim is always buying them for me but I never seem to get around to watching them.  I decided to watch `Fluke`, a lovely little film that I first saw on video several years ago.  It`s a tale of a man who dies in a car crash in what looks like suspicious circumstances.  When he dies his spirit passes to a new born puppy and it tells the story of the puppies search for his `old life` family to warn them of danger.  It is a really lovely story but a bit of a tear-jerker and a bit different than most of the `dog travels a million miles back to adoring family` type film.  Definitely worth a watch if you love dogs and small boys. 

                 

Tomorrow I should have a leisurely day, I`m as prepared for Christmas as I`ll ever be except for some baking...yummm  fresh baked mince pies coming up, I can smell them already, well I can`t really smell anything at the moment but hopefully I will be able to by tomorrow.  I had a strange dream last night involving some of my J-Land friends.  We all went on holiday to this horrible place beside the sea, then when we decided to leave we couldn`t as the gates were locked and the place was deserted ....it was horrible, we were all shouting but nobody was there, then I woke up.  Whatever made me dream that, I wonder?  I`m off to read some journals now as my emails are mounting up.  I hope you all have a lovely day, bye for now and take care.

 

 

TRIVIA ABOUT CATS:

95% of cat owners admit they talk to their cats.

A cat can be either right-pawed or left-pawed.

A cat can jump as much as seven times its height.

A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.

A cat has 230 bones in its body. A human only has 206 bones.

A cat has four rows of whiskers.

A cat in a hurry can sprint at about thirty-one miles per hour.

A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.

A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as feelers or antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.

A cat will almost never meow at another cat. Cats use this sound for humans.

A cat will clean itself with paw and tongue after a dangerous experience or when it has fought with another cat. This is believed to be an attempt by the animal to soothe its nerves by doing something natural and instinctive.

A cat will never break a sweat because it has no sweat glands.

A cat will spend nearly 30% of its life grooming itself.

A cat's arching back is part of a complex body language system, usually associated with feeling threatened. The arch is able to get so high because the cat's spine contains nearly 60 vertebrae which fit loosely together. Humans have only 34 vertebrae.

A cat's brain is more similar to a human's brain than that of a dog.

A cat's ear pivots 180 degrees.

A cat's hearing rates as one of the top in the animal kingdom. Cats can hear sounds as high-pitched as 65 kHz; a human's hearing stops at just 20 kHz.

A cat's heart beats at 110 to 140 beats per minute, twice as fast as a human heart.

A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.

A cat's normal body temperature is 101.5 degrees F (38.6 C).