After all the awful weather we had when Heather was here and the first weekend she has gone back and we have bright sunshine.
Totty had me up in the night to let her out four times so I decided, after seeing her scratching her bottom on the floor, to make an appointment with the vet.
We had a phone call from Heather to say a letter had arrived at home saying my credit card had had some unusual activity and to call them. It was the card I used to use for my shopping and I haven't used it since December when I paid the bill. Jon got through to a foreign man at Tesco Finance and had great trouble understanding him. Jon explained that we have been in NZ since January and could not have used the card. He told Jon that it had been used to buy Domino Pizza but was blocked when £489 worth of carpet was bought as they could not provide the security checks. It had also been used to try and buy flights and tickets. The man said to Jon but you have used it in NZ as one of the transactions was BISHOP Auckland. Jon said Bishop Auckland is in the UK!!!! Anyway after a long conversation with three departments we have finally cancelled the card. They wanted us to have a new one but we told them we won't be using it over here and we will get one when we come back to the UK. All day I have been thinking of Bishop Auckland and it makes me laugh!
We saw the vet at 11.30 and he did some pretty nasty examinations on Totty and he thinks she could have an inflamed colon. He gave her antibiotic tablets and an injection and told me to starve her for 24 hours and gave me some powder to mix with her water. Tomorrow afternoon she can have a quarter of a tin of special food and then gradually increase it. Hopefully, that is all it is and she will get better and nothing further will need to be done - fingers crossed.
Jon and I then went to do the shopping. I was really glad he was with me as Heather has been with me for the last seven weeks and it felt very strange not having her there and laughing at me getting electric shocks whenever I picked up anything from the shelves (lots of people have been saying they get electric shocks in this supermarket, I think it must be something to do with what the floor is made of) hopefully these feelings will get less I know my shopping bill has!!!
After lunch we took Totty out for a long walk on Papamoa beach and she had a great time running after shells and then digging them up but she buries them more than anything and it is very funny to watch and the first time Jon has seen her do it. It was lovely on the beach and there were lots of families fishing as the weather was so good - I can't believe how big fishing is over here.
There are many restrictions on how many fish you can take home and they have to be a certain size i.e. no small ones. You are only allowed to collect 50 cockles per person and in some places the police set up road blocks at the end of the afternoon and actually count how many cockles people have and check the fish. If you are caught with too many you have to pay a fine of $250 and the catch is confiscated. That's how big fishing is here! I suppose they need to maintain the stocks.
We got back and had a cup of tea and Totty is going mad for her dinner I think she will be chewing the furniture by tomorrow.
How cruel are we sitting eating a nice steak and poor Totty watching!
We watched Pretty Woman tonight - what a lovely film that is.
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