Home distractions

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Working at home is not good for me as there are far too many distractions. Although this helped ensure the boiler got repaired, the same day we had our new wardrobe and drawers delivered (a half-priced, ex-display Habitat bargain bought the previous weekend). The problem was that the delivery men couldn't lift it anywhere near our front door as it was too heavy. Whilst one of them had to deliver something else, his mate and I dismantled the wardrobe on the street. This took nearly an hour though once in, I was constantly moving the parts upstairs and putting them together again. By 5pm I had completely put the mammoth wardrobe (big enough to house the whole of Narnia) together with very little progress made on a major project I'm doing.

Not strictly working from home, but that was the excuse, was a trip to the vet the next day. Sasha, our feline friend has developed a lump on the side of his neck. Its the equivalent to a human having a growth the size of a tennis ball. He's in no pain but its a little worrying. poor little dude didn't have the best of journey there. Usually he has predicable bowel movements during the night but I think he guessed something was going to happen the next day. So, to reduce the smell and stress, I laid some cat litter in his carry case for the vet journey. He pooped about 5 minutes later but as soon as pedestrian decided to use a zebra crossing without much warning, I put on the brakes a bit too hard and the carry case, cat, cat litter and poops rolled over into the passenger seat well.

The vet's advice was pretty inconclusive. He recommended a biopsy taking a sample of the lump and sending it away for analysis at £250! Why isn't there an NHS for pets?