British Monsoon

Spent last few days trying to get dogs over their stomach bug. Boiling a chicken a day for their meals at the minute. Managed to get 4 frozen ones delivered from local shop. Been following the floods on the news channels I have. Seems this round is over. August to November to get through yet! Prolly October to Mid November will be worse. Winds prolly more harm than the rain.
Rain is intermittent locally at the minute but usually some every day. Fields at the backwaters are saturated and beginning to pool badly in areas. Am avoiding going near the path to the picnic bench as believe that is where Dainty caught her stomach bug. Within 24 hours of going in the water there she was ill. I phoned the local council and spoke to a woman there about it. Roughly 3 days after mine became ill her 2 border collies became ill. Her dogs had been in Poole harbour water at a place not far away from the site at the pumping station at Turlin Moor. Her dogs are showing identical symptoms to mine. This may be a coincidence but there is the possibility that the pumping station has leaked something locally into Lychett Bay that could be washing up on Hamworthy Beach where she took her dogs. Not much else I can do about it. The woman said she’d get the ranger to look into it. Dainty’s never going near the water around there again. It’s a shame because it puts the hay meadow out of bounds on hot days because it is no longer near safe water to keep her cool. Loads of people take their dogs over that area as well.
Ang had a really good visit to the flat with a garden. Took loads of pictures and looked around the local area. It’s got great facilities for people and some really nice places for dogs. The flats a bit smaller than mine and hardly any cupboard space. Will be hard to manage in it with the two dogs but the garden would be brilliant for Dainty to get out and be muzzle free. I think she misses being able to play fight with Buster properly. She can’t grab anything when they start. All she can do is head butt him and try and knock him over. She likes being chased by him most and usually manages to get away.
After a phone-call yesterday I’ve discovered that if the local consultant that covers the area the flat is in won’t accept me as a patient I can’t move. Today’s phone-call resulted in me having to email the guy with the flat and tell him it may take months before I could move. Well fed up now.
Been feeding the dogs 3 times a day lately so they could have their paste and antibiotics. They finished there paste yesterday and last dose of antibiotics tonight. Blitzed the flat and all their bedding a few days ago just in case. They seem to be pretty good at the minute. Both almost pebble-like when they went this morning. Started introducing normal dog-food to their diet yesterday. Got one chicken left which I need to cook today at some point. Did some rice earlier.
Managed two walks so far today to the backwaters. Weather not been bad today. No rain so far and it’s 2.45.