Scaredy cat and going to the dentist

Despite it being very hot, Mas and I went blackberrying in Stanmore in the afternoon where we used to go, and unusually we saw another couple gathering fruit too. Later I made 10lbs of jam, and did a little gardening. We watched New Tricks in the evening.

During the night Salty ran into the bedroom, and hid behind the curtains on the window ledge. After a while he ran onto my bed and lay by my side, with his head by my feet watching the landing; he seemed rather frightened. Eventually he went to sleep. I am still not quite sure about his friend the tabby cat.

Today Mas went off to the dentist, and while he was out I finished off the last bit of painting in the kitchen then re potted the small parsley plant I had bought, and collected all the Honesty seeds from the plants in the garden and generally pottered around till Mas came back home; the dentist was not sure if Mason's filling would do, or whether he would have to have a root canal treatment.

In the evening we watched an NCIS, and I spent time playing with Salty, then he went outside and played with the tabby cat; this cat is getting very bold, and is openly trying to come in while we watch TV. Salty, unusually, also spent part of the night sleeping beside Mas instead of romping about outside all night.

Stinging nettle arms, corkscrew neck and toothache

I had a routine appointment with my doctor and then walked home. Mas and I had planned to have lunch at the Man in the Moon and get some shopping, but when I reached home Margaret phoned and asked if I would like to go blackberrying with her and John. I left quickly after finding some plastic boxes to put the blackberries in in and went round to their house.

We walked over to Arches field, and they showed me their favourite picking place. The weather was hot and sunny, and in short order we had picked enough to fill all our boxes, and having displaced a wasps nest we went home. I invited them to come for lunch with us, so we all drove off in John's car to Stanmore.

We had a cheery lunch together, and then collected shopping. We had caught the sun a little getting the blackberries, and all felt quite sleepy. They dropped us home before driving to their house. In the evening I froze about 8lbs of blackberries and made jam with the rest.

Today I finished off the curtains, and re hung them which was the worst part of the job, and involved me screwing my neck around like the child from 'The Exorcist'. That job done, I tidied and vacuumed as there were cotton threads all over the house, and hoped my neck would return to normal before too long.

Mas has got bad toothache which sends pain along the jaw and up into his temple, but he has to wait for his dental appointment on Friday so is taking paracetamol every four hours. We watched Simon Baker (who is also in The Mentalist) in The Guardian. After that I washed up and played with Salty and left Mas to watch Numbers.