On behalf of Finn, he ain’tent dead yet.
In fact, this week has been pretty good and the weekend just gone involved his first walk in about a fortnight. He made it to the nearest patch of grass with a few lie-downs along the way. Gazed at the mud longingly and then got forced to walk back (with more lie-downs). He’s still picky – I would go so far to say faddy – with food and having to be hand fed otherwise he doesn’t eat at all, which kind of nixes the anti-inflammatory part of his painkiller egime. So. Hand fed – and what he doesn’t like ends up with me or the other two depending on whether it’s intended to be eaten by humans or not.
ASIDE: I feel I should make it clear, again, that I am not eating dog food. Just the quiche, cocktail sausages, cheese, sausage rolls, pasta sauce, whatever, that Finn turns his nose up at.
We have also moved on from paracetemol tablets (half a 500mg tablet is one dose) because it makes him suspicious of all later food. He’s now on “paracetemol in suspension” (i.e. Calpol), getting up to 250mg in a dose. He does not approve of the strawberry flavour but at least it doesn’t make him distrust the food I give him.
In other news, I have booked Satellite 7 (more info here: [External Link]) and a hotel room in the nearby Premier Inn, so it looks like I shall be going to Glasgow in May. Possibly see you there.
I think I mentioned at the beginning of the year that Mab Morris [External Link] did some substantive editing of City of Dreams for me. I understand she has some openings for more substantive editing in the not too distant future, so I urge anyone who’s got a manuscript they’re a little stuck with and not sure how to make it work better – or even at all – to get in touch with her. Her rates are on her website (the last link) but she generally prefers talking on Facebook, so here’s that page as well: [External Link]