A lot of old people do not like going to the doctor and as for hospital ....My mum is terrified of going to the hospital. She has to go to have a cyst on her tonsil removed and thought it was day surgery but has been asked to bring a nightie and a toothbrush. I said they sometimes like to keep you a few hours just in case. Now she is fretting about my dad having to stay around all the time when she is there. I said give him a book and he will be as happy as Larry.
She has only been in hospital a few times - twice to have kids (3rd was a home jobbie) and then to have her coil removed but it was so embedded, the guy said to keep it there!
MIche - glad to hear your Dad is ok and hope you are in fine voice for the singa long!
Lou - your Marmite sounds a right character! Our first cat (Footso- tortie and white) would come back from a fight and start on us. Her tail would stay fluffed up for ages. Sometimes she would then jump up on the telly with her back to us and her now fluffy tail in the way of the screen. Even my telly addict Dad had not the heart to move her. We used to strain over to the side to see what was on, then she was obviously thinking of her fight and would swish her tail around and we would be moving from side to side to try to see the screen. She had her moments. She would sometimes attack for no reason and yet other times put up with rough handling from us kids. I even put her in a dolls nightie once and put her in the pram!
OUr second cat - Topsy the black one - she had a skinny tail but boy could it fluff up. SHe was particularly terrortorial. I could hear her upstairs if she was growling out the window at another cat! I used to think it was an engine or something, or mum's sewing machine (in the middle of the night??!) but then realised it was Miss Topsy having a hissy growly fit.
Moo - that is rotten
- I guess it is cheaper in Hungary. Why do they think you would want to ease the path for your replacement? Why do they think that??! Madness. I hope you look and find a decent job soon.
Some people, especailly those who are very ambitious like to go from job to job but me, as long as the salary is ok and the working conditions are fine, I am happy to stay put. So any rumours or changes and I am not a happy bunny! All quiet at the moment though.
Poor Helly. 
Just be there for her, after all, you can't force her into treatment and it is her decision. 
Anyways, we did some grading stuff and they seemed to be actually working. The little guy who is a big tyke sometimes was actually working well on his own 
Then more grading stuff at kickboxing tonight! I might actually get better! 
I never got round to cleats on bike peddles, I just thought that people laugh enough at cyclists without falling across the bonnet of their cars and having them laugh even harder! 