Sunshine Challenge

On Saturday, I was at Pets at Home, helping out for Consett Cats again. This time I was manning the tombola, and final total raised was £81. Not as much as the week before, but considering the prizes were the usual, not exciting tombola fare, I was pleased with the total. The shop did warn Kay, the main rescue lady, that we had to be careful about people stopping to talk and blocking the aisle. Not just for our day, but the whole fortnight.

This is a year-long partnership, so we'll be back in the summer and before Christmas for two more fortnights of fundraising -- in between they have collection tins out for Consett Cats near the tills, and raise money that way -- and hopefully they'll rearrange, so the table can go in the foyer and not cause bottlenecks.

We ended up staying much longer than originally planned, but again, I got to stroke lots of cute dogs and talk to lots of people, so I enjoyed the day.

If anyone is interested, Kay was recently interviewed for the BBC news, talking about trapping a feral colony. She really is an amazing woman, running the rescue single-handed with the help of volunteers.

Sunday I spent hanging at Kayleigh's as my brother and nephew were going there to put up a shed. It's not often that us sibs can get together for nearly a full day, even if Chris was working for most of it. It was nice to just hang, though man, it was chilly, and in the end Kayleigh switched on the patio heater.

Monday we were supposed to take Bodhi to a Tinkerbell Easter party at Moo Bears, but it was cancelled as Tinkerbell ended up having to be admitted to hospital. Thankfully, Bodhi still doesn't really have any real concept of time, so didn't realise she was missing out. Plus, she had all her eggs to concentrate on, so was happy enough.

I was a bit annoyed at Moos, who only announced the cancellation in a few sentences within their normal daily FB post. If I hadn't read that, we would have turned up to no party. I think, considering the tickets were pre-paid, they should have messaged people individually.

As there was no party, we rearranged plans and did grocery shopping in the morning, dropped off Bodhi's easter basket, then went to Pauline's as she'd asked us to come for lunch. Stayed there for a couple of hours and then headed for Newcastle to drop off Corey's Easter eggs.

Yesterday was supposed to be a no plan day for me, but first thing I got a message from Kayleigh asking, what are your plans today? Which I always know means, something has come up, can you babysit for me? And yep, I was at Kayleigh's from 10 to nearly four as Bodes wasn't feeling well and Kayleigh and Lucy had tattoo appointments booked in. It was all good though, I got to play tea parties and got some sun in the garden, and had a bit of excitement when first, their youngest cat decided to carry in a giant, fat, furry bumblebee. Then a blackbird decided to stroll in the house to get a drink from the cat's waterbowl. That I didn't mind, the bee situation, trying to work out how to get a cat to drop a bee wasn't a good time.