The good news is that Penny’s recovery is coming on nicely. The dressing is off and she’s eating again.

Have found we can sneak the pain meds into her by encasing them in shredded cheese so she’s comfortable.

Hardest parts now are blocking her from using the stairs and reducing her food intake by a third to avoid her poking up further. Poor girl is bringing us her bowl as soon as she has finished eating.

Penny is back home after a traumatic day at the vets, having her knee operated on to put back a dislocated miniscus and replace her ACL tendon with a stronger plastic tie.

She is still coming round from the anaesthesia and on pain meds but is still whimpering constantly, painful to witness when there is nothing you can do.

I have four sets of tablets and liquid to give her to keep her topped up, which given past experience will be fun. She is also confined to one room for the next 2 weeks.

Just hoping she sleeps through the night otherwise we will be on duty with her for a while, as she only seems to settle when she can see one of us in front of her.

Have just checked the Top Streaking list on my streaming service of choice and had never heard of 17 of the artists in the Top 20 streaming songs list.

Tried listening to some of them and they are all absolute crap. Not in a “I just don’t get it” way, just that songs could have been – and may have been – written by a software application.

Ah well, back to the safety of my Floyd and Bowie albums.

Another bank holiday spent on the tools, this time painting the handrails, putting another coat on the hall wall and hanging some photos (shamefully on the To Do list for over a year)

If you’re going to treat yourself to a cookie you may as well go the whole hog and have one the size of your head. Thanks Holly for the baking!

I’ve just taken a punt on ordering a set of cymbals on AliExpress. They’re a special “mute” range that make a lot less noise than regular cymbals but give you a similar feel. Hoping this, along with rubber pads on the drum skins and my new double glazing, means I’ll be able to get back into practicing and build up the skills again without annoying the neighbours.

This is the first step in a larger item on the bucket list, which is to form a ageing punk band. Anyone with a good name please email it to me!