Big Girl's Blouse

It's always been difficult to stop Lukas removing his own stitches after surgery. Last time a muzzle did the trick but this time, because the wounds were on his chest, he couldn't bite them but could reach them with a hind foot to scratch them. A T-shirt seemed to provide the best protection.

However when Dr Lee said yesterday that the stitches needed to stay in over the weekend, I'd run out of T-shirts and the only answer was to sacrifice an old blouse.

Buttoned up along his back I think it looks very smart, but Lukas is just embarrassed. Which is why I had to take the pic when he was eating and didn't notice!

New Dustbin

Those who have been to my house here will remember that the lid of my dustbin got smashed by a falling coconut. I wasn't going to replace the bin until the tree was down in case it happened again, so the lid has been wrapped in black plastic to keep the rain out of the bin.

One evening last week some guys turned up to cut the tree down for me. First they attached a long rope to the top to make sure it fell away from the house, and took down part of the fence to avoid it being smashed.

A sharp cutlass and a bit of muscle soon take a sizeable wedge out of the tree trunk . . . . .

And down she went - right on top of Roger's precious paw paw tree (snigger, snigger)!

Today I went out and bought a brand new dustbin!