I was 'planning' to go to another festival last weekend, to let-it-all-out before Uni started again...but the Universe had other things in store for me.

Was feeling a bit crook & run-down before the weekend & was humming & ha-ing about going when my cat (Molly...photos are being technically difficult, so will be up soon I hope) got really sick on Thurs. It appears that she may have been bitten by a snake, a hazard in a rural area, and was basically paralysed, but luckily still breathing!
It was pretty bad for a while & very distressing for both her & me...but after a week in the vet hospital on a drip etc, she came home last night. VERY wobbly & second-hand but fighting to get better.
We don't know what type of bite/snake it was but not an Eastern Brown as she didn't display all the typical signs for a bite from one of those...sadly another cat in the vets had been bitten by one & it died.

And while Molly was at the vets, my friend Colleen's Staffy, Angus, somehow got tangled in his chain & dragged into the dam on their place by his 'girlfriend' Brigid, and luckily Colleen was right there, as he went down to the bottom with the chain...
She had to drag him out & resuscitate him as he was gone. I went to visit the 'patient' that afternoon & he stopped breathing again due to all the dam water & crap still in his lungs, so I have now performed mouth-to-nose on a dog!
(I wouldn't recommend the flavour).
We got him going again & rushed him off to the vets, where he spent the next few days in the cage right next to my Molly!
He has pnuemonia, but luckily is also now home but on lots of drugs...

So it was fated that I had to stay home on the weekend for very important reasons, obviously!