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Sue Redfern
posts on 11/20/2009 4:43:16 PM
I've not had access to a computer for a week, since I posted my question asking if Deric still did public speaking.
Deric, the last thing I expected was a reply from you, thank you. I didn't know you had had a stroke or an AAA operation, whatever that is.
I do hope you have a full recovery, and I'm sad that I never took the opportunity to hear you speak while I had the chance.
I love your books, and especially like to listen to the audio versions when you read them.
Take very good care of you!
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Yvonne Welsh
posts on 11/20/2009 3:41:24 PM
Liz, I'll try find out some details and rates for you. Where in uk do you live? If you're near west yorks I'd put an ad in our practices for you.
The only reason I've not taken any cats in is cos my cockatiel, Spike, wouldn't be overly pleased, what with being the feathered variety! However, I'm sure we can make a happy home for a cat one day without upsetting Spikey!Bit busy with wildlife for now tho!
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Jan Tenzer
posts on 11/20/2009 2:18:01 PM
Gee Yvonne, I admire the fact that although you are the only one who doesn't take home the cruelty cases, you're the one who gives of your time elsewhere. At my animal hospital we have a vet nurse who we call Saint Marina. I think she has 25 cats now that would have been euthanized had she not taken them in. Deric, do you still have a cat flap that allows the occasional vagabond to find shelter and food?
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Liz W
posts on 11/20/2009 1:24:10 PM
Hi Yvonne - I'd have liked to have been a veterinary nurse, had I not been so squeamish. I bet that kestrel was thinking about duffing Keith up! I talk to animals as if they were young children - from horses and dogs right down to mice and snakes. Goodness knows what the snakes make of me. The only animals I'm not keen on are things like craneflies and (back me up here, Deric!) slugs! Ugh! I hate them! I'm not working at the moment but am hoping to go self-employed, caring for people's pets and plants while they are away. I have one firm client who needs her dog walked regularly about 3 days a week, and another prospective client who needs his 2 dogs cared for while he's at his other home in France. All I have to work out is how to get more clients and most importantly, how much to charge. I want to keep it affordable for people, as I'll be doing it firstly because I love animals and only secondly to avoid having to take office work. Any advice on rates would be most welcome, if we are allowed to discuss that sort of thing on here.
Well, I must go and get my cake out of the oven! Some friends who keep chickens gave us 2 dozen eggs, and since we hadn't finished the last dozen they gave us, I panicked and am baking up a storm. This is a seed cake for a friend, and a chocolate cake for the chicken friends is next to go in the oven. I wish we lived in Huddersfield, Deric - I could have tried out my baking on you and Aileen!
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Yvonne Welsh
posts on 11/19/2009 3:44:32 PM
Hi Liz! I do work in a vets-I'm a vet nurse but I also volunteer as a keeper in a local bird garden on my day off-Love it!!! It is a great job, but can be heartbreaking and its so hard to be civil to and owner who is not nice, to put it politely! Most of us nurses have taken in cruelty cases and strays-I'm the only one who hasnt. However I deal with all the wildlife and specialise in rehabilatating birds! Just released a Kestrel 2 days ago! We had to force feed the poor thing...my partner, Keith, was not to overjoyed by this-I think he thought it was going to duff him up!!!
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Liz W
posts on 11/19/2009 1:54:52 PM
I must admit to being a bit envious of you, Gill: I wish I could have joined you on that walk in the Peak District. And of you, Yvonne - it sounds as if you work in a vets surgery. I would give my eye teeth for a receptionist job at our local vets. But I've always wondered if I'd be any good, as I'm so fond of animals. I might be like Our Avaline in that series Bread that was on years ago - chasing clients down the street screaming CAT MURDERER!! I hope Buster manages to escape from the squirrel, Deric. Don't tell him in case he gets ideas, but Duchess killed one a few weeks ago. It was only a little one and she caught it unawares, before my husband could stop her, and then presented it to him as a gift. She was so disappointed when he threw it away. Usually she can't catch anything, as she's so white she practically glows in the dark and everything can see her coming from miles off. The only way she can catch anything is if it's too weak from laughing to run away.
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Deric
posts on 11/19/2009 7:26:30 AM
Hi Peggy, hope life is treating you with love and care. By the way Helen gave your age away, I would smack her bottom if I were you. Buster is doing well Jan, still a bit sore but smiling again. I think he's probably also a bit of a Wuss-Puss Liz W - he is being harrased by a squirrel as we talk. They are both on the window sill and Buster seems to have got himself cornered. Hope the Peak District blew the cobwebs away Gill. Presumably you swam there and back if the weather was anything like it was here Love to all.
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Liz W
posts on 11/18/2009 12:13:28 PM
Hi Deric,
So sorry to hear about your health problems. I have worried about you sometimes, on reading about them in your books, like when you were taken poorly in the supermarket and the lady who looked after you and when you were better, ordered her little girl to "get them cushions back on t' shelves!" You take it easy and get better. I buy your books not only for myself, but for my mum and her friend. Mum has the attention span of a gnat but somehow you manage to keep her focused - I think she recognises a kindred spirit in your mum. Her friend is a lady in her 80s who had never read a book in her life, until Mum lent her one of yours. Apparently this lady's son heard her laughing late one night, put his head round her bedroom door and gasped "Mum! You're reading a book!"
I have a beautiful fluffy white cat called Duchess. Sort of cat supermodel thing. Bit of a wuss-puss - last summer she fell foul of a couple of blackbirds after trying to get their baby. I saw her fleeing down the garden pursued by these 2 angry blackbirds and it was only a few hours later that I wondered where she'd got to, and found her hiding in a bush, scared to come out because the blackbirds were there waiting for her. I had to lift her out and carry her into the house. I'm not sure she'll ever recover from the humiliation but it does serve her right. We told her to leave that baby alone.
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helen whitehead
posts on 11/18/2009 7:00:52 AM
Hi Deric, i read your posts to my 89 year old nan who loves to hear what you are up to. She attended a number of your talks and got the whole family into your books. would be great if you could put a hello to Peggy on this page for her!
Love to you and the family
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Jan Tenzer
posts on 11/16/2009 12:13:20 PM
Well Deric, double blessings to the surgeons who took care of you and the doctors who keep you well. Every time I'm reading your misadventures I'm just happy that you and Aileen have a wonderful life together. How is little Buster doing?
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