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I’m once again delayed in keeping this journal/blog updated. Christmas this year was practically an icy one here in Melbourne. We had rain, hail and the coldest Christmas in 70 years, just no snow. Though there was snow in Victoria, up in the alps. These are the same alps that had been burning fiercely for weeks in the lead up to Christmas, so fiercely that Melbourne had been blanketed in smoke on at least several different days. Though the fires continue, the cooler weather brought much relief.

It was a quiet new years eve for this year, pretty much just spent in front of the telly. Though it was made up for by going down to Mornington on new years day with my brother Ben, his girlfriend Pip and my sister Catherine to catch up with mum and her boyfriend Darryl for lunch.

Will hopefully get away for a holiday or two this January and keep up much of the cycling.

Melbourne in smoke:

It’s been almost four weeks since Lily broke her leg. Having missed a bit of TAFE, it’s been an uneventful week, so I thought I’d make a little video clip. Filming was done entirely with our sophisticated (or not so, as it is really a stills camera) Canon PowerShot A85 and edited with iMovie. The soundtrack was essentially picked at random though it seemed to go well, so I stuck with it. While Lily has recovered quite well, she still isn’t using her leg, as you can see in the clip. She isn’t normally allowed outside except on a leash nor is she allowed to run around, though for the purposes of filming, this rule was twisted a little. However, in about two and a half weeks she will be allowed out and to play once again. It has been named “The Dog with the Golden Leg” due to the shear cost of the operation. First though, here she is when she had just come home with the bandage on (the bandage is no longer needed and was removed a few weeks ago, as she had pins installed to hold her leg together):

Finally here is the film clip, all 30 seconds of it, available in a choice of three different formats:
Quicktime small (740kB)
Quicktime medium (1MB)
MPEG-4 (1MB)

Well what do you know. Was playing fetch with Lily today, when she ran down the steps then a few metres on turned around quite fast and started yelping like you wouldn’t believe. It turns out she’s broken her leg, so she’s still at the vet where she’ll remain until Monday, then she needs to be taken to a specialist and will need to have surgery. In the mean time she’s biten three people, including mum, my sister and the vet.

Update: Lily is home now (as of Tuesday), hoping around on three legs until the other leg gets better. The vet bill was phenomenal.

Well last night something at least happened. I was told we’d be going out for dinner at a nice restaurant. It was to be me, Mum, Catherine (sister), Tim (brother) and Eff (Tim’s girlfriend). As it turns out, when we arrived, I was greeted by not only Tim and Eff but also family friends as well. Later some more relatives turned up. It turned out to be a reasonably good night.

I said I’d post some pictures, so here they are. Meet Lily, my sisters new puppy.

Here she is today from about an hour ago today:

Here she is again from three weeks ago, with Effie (brother’s girlfriend) when she would have been about five weeks old:

She’s a Cavoodle. Which is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, crossed between a Toy Poodle. There’s possibly some Bichon in her as well.

Update: Since this post has been fairly popular, I’ve uploaded this gallery of the litter.