We had a lovely weekend with Nelly's friend Nina and our friends Fiona and Rinus - the girls played nicely together ( well most of the time , with two hair pulling moments by Nelly) the boys drank beers watching Holland playing Russia ( Rinus is Dutch..) and fiona and I talked gardening, plants and cookery books amongst other things! The girls went to bed exhausted after a walk downt to see the ponies and we finally sat down to eat late ( lovely Nigel Slater lamb recipe..) when Delilah came in at about 10 15 and Rob realised she had been injured - not sure cat or fight, but it looked like her jaw had gone, she ran off scared when I tried to look at her but she came back after much coaxing and walking round a soggy garden with a torch calling her name. Took her to the vets in the cage and saw the true damage it turned out toe be a dislocated jaw - very painful looking, the vet exclaimed he had never seen anything like it - at which point we thought the worst but we left her there and he called us an hour later to tell us that she already had metalwork in her jaw. We got her at one year old and obviously she had had surgery at a young age ( we got her from the Cats Protection League ) it seems to have saved her and this morning I collected her with jaw back in place and taken her up to see a specialist Ortho consultant in Northampton where she will stay for a few days and he will assess what needs to be done...! Poor thing I thought she was a goner...had to explain to Nelly why she coud not feed Delilah on Sunday morning and that produced a few tears but...hopefully all will be OK ...
THe rest of the wekend was splashing in the ford again with Nina and Nelly got soaked to the skin by running into the water and promptly slipping face first into the ford! They loved it and we all took loads of video and pics...
