Goings on

[stellar_muddle]

Hallet Cove yesterday - more rocks. Baby ones, older glacial ones and ancient ones of a similar vintage to some of the ones in the Flinders Ranges National Park. Very cool stripy folded rocks and tide pools**. Hovering Kestrels and formation flying Pelicans*. The geologists took lots of pictures of rocks. And birds.
Also went a bit further south and found a good wooden playground. An adventure one with all sorts of turrets and towers and slides and swings. And it was built in 2002! After all the regs brought in to take the fun out of playgrounds. Enough heights and ledges and scrambling and clambering to let kids challenge themselves and learn about risk accessment rather than cotton-wooling them. You could see why the standard plastic-fantastic no fun electric shock playground 20m away was being ignored.

More sightseeing today and tomorrow, then parents home on Weds. Hopefully Jill will be warmer and moving more easily by then***.

And in other news, phone interview with the cloud guys sometime in the next week or so(Edit: time and date now). If that goes well, a second interview soon after being NZ located. Should check out/google phone interview techniques, given that I have successfully avoided such things so far in life.

* The avian kind... though the mental images of the other sort could be entertaining.
** We luckily hit right around low tide so there were limpets and snails and seaweeds and red blobs of jelly on white covered rocks which opened up into anemones with fine tentacles in the pools. Lots of the fun sort of rock scrambling.
*** Ask alpha_angel, who spent part of the weekend running around after her. Aging arthritic cats really don't like the cold... Which reminds me, cinnamon lollies...

Comments

[alpha-angel.livejournal.com]

List of things for parental units to do for Jill:
Take to vet once a week for next three weeks for course of joint shots - maybe they could administer the shots themselves? Anyway, wouldn't be charged consultation fees for those visits, just for the jab. Jabs should help significantly with the arthritis and effects will last for quite a long time.
Get blood tests done to check kidney function.
If kidney function good, Jill can have anti-inflammatory drops to go in her food.
Kidney function test will also determine her ability to handle anesthetic. Needs surgery to trim cancerous tissue from both ears, and get teeth worked over at the same time - they usually don't do teeth cleaning/removal at the same time as other surgery, but if the cat is only going under once will do it.
Recommendation to keep her inside at night, especially in winter.

[stellar-muddle.livejournal.com]

Sounds reasonable. Have forwarded the LJ notification email listing this to Mum and Dad's home email, though I suspect you have already sent them the info by other means...