My four-legged friend

Clover (aged 12) had her first wibble today. Often when dogs get elderly they develop Vestibular Syndrome, which is a problem in the inner ear causing their sense of balance to be thrown out of the window. It's generally non-fatal, but the longterm effects can be similar to that of a stroke in humans. Our old girl Polly was 15 when she got a really bad sudden attack of it, when she kept falling over and desperately tried to clutch the floor to stop it whirling. Sadly because she was generally frail it was the end of her. :( Clover's attacks this morning weren't nearly that bad, but she obviously felt as though she was aboard a storm-tossed ship instead of on a steady kitchen floor. A foretaste of what's to come. I was worried about her all day, but Ned says she coped happily on her 3-mile walk this morning; so that's a relief.

Anyway, at work I was searching the net for downloadable images of laundry instructions (don't ask!) and I was cheered to find this. Hot on its heels came this.