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Sad, Happy, Sleepy

Sad start to the day as we picked up our princess pwscat's ashes in the morning. We received a beautiful card from the vet who was with us during fudjcat's last moments earlier in the week:

Whilst out, we also picked up a frame for our recently printed pwscat photo:

Given the start to the day, it wasn"t really the best time four my office Christmas get-together. Bay hey ho.

Yours truly with work mates

'Twas a lovely meet-up, where x2 pre-starter double gins and x4 cider pints meant I soon fell asleep when I got home just after 8pm and brought an early end to the day.

Old age took our little furry pwscat this evening. On our vet's advice, she was given a strong steroid injection on Tuesday in the hope that it would give her a week or so window of struggle-free life, where palliative care could allow her to enjoy the last of her dwindling life. But its benefits lasted only a day or so and, within 48 hours, we returned the old lady for further medical care. There, the vet decided it was time to say our tearful, heartfelt goodbyes.

You will always be in our hearts, fudjcat. Our lives will be darker without your furry footsteps at our side. And all I can do right now, is share just a few of our memories of you in happier times. We will always love you. xxxx

Lickle fudjcat with her mum and siblings

Fudge finding instant adoration amongst her new family

fudcat cuddling me

My constant writing companion

Fudge with her favourite Lion King toy, Timon

I will end this post with a short video of her chilling in the freckling Summer sunshine:

Poor Pwscat

Little fudjcakes is breaking all our hearts as we try to make the most of our last few days with her. Our vet says he would have treated her the same is she was his cat so all I hope is that we are doing our best by her.

Sometimes life is unbearable, yet we still cling to it.

Mrs P.L.'s Walking Challenge: Day 30

Tonight was the final night of my better half's walking challenge. Leaving the house at 6.30, we got home at two minutes to midnight to maximise her step. Here are tonight's pics from the walk.

This friendly feline was a firm favourite sight of this evening's 23k step challenge.

The Brunswick was the penultimate beverage of the month-long step count. Very quiet tonight, but a real cosy boozer.

We then headed to the No-Sign so Mrs P.L. could finally taster her fist Murphy's in years.

The bartender lit the fire for which, which although was a little too comforting...

...Which meant we had to skidaddle to make every step count by walking all the way home by midnight. This was not helped by tonight being the start of Divali, which illuminated Swansea Bay by a mesmerising display of firework.

Reaching The Uplands, the lateness of the hour made us forego our planned last beverage of the night and up our pace dramatically as we hit the hill!

I was exhausted by the time we made it to our door and piled into our house. My ring-toes were sore on each foot, but Mrs P.L. was happy with the final step count. And despite the enjoyment and cool sights of the past 30 nights, we were both looking forward to spending some evenings at home 🙂

#caturday

This sight greeted me yrsterday morning when I went dowmstaors to het ready got work. Little fidjcat has been playing with this toy and called it her own since my children were young lol. 🙂

Fishguard

Took a visit to Fishguard today to see the Spanish galleon anchored there. Gutted I couldn't ticket this off my Bucket List though as it's sails were folded and my wish is to see a galleion in full sail out at sea. Never mind...

As has been the norm for our walks lately, the weather was extremelt pleasant and it very much felt like a summer's day that it approaching the middle of October.