I handed in my two biggie assignments today – the Java treasure hunt game and the Jumpin’ Jake’s Jook Joint website report. Last night when I was doing the final bits of writing up, I spilled a glass of red wine (ok, I started celebrating completion a little early). I was very lucky that my logbook was on the scanner and I only got a few drops on my laptop. When will I learn not to spill drinks near my work?!

After handing my assignments in I cycled home via Tesco, where organic whole roast chicken is on special offer at £3.98/kg. We want to spoil Same-Same rotten in his last few months and he loves chicken. We don’t eat a lot of chicken ourselves, but when we do, we buy organic because it’s the best welfare standard. So this offer has come just at the right time and I shall be filling the freezer up for him.

The steroids Same has been taking seem to have kicked in. He still gets tired very quickly but he does manage a bit of scampering around twice a day. We’ve allowed him to have some supervised time with his brother, which is fine when they just want to snooze together, but when Different wants to play, he’s just too rough. Getting Different used to being on his own for some of the time is a good idea anyway, because at some point, that’s how things will be. I don’t want to have another ferret in the future and chances are Different wouldn’t bond with him anyway.

So, feeling relieved about assignments but won’t feel properly settled until will get a phonecall from the vet with confirmation of the diagnosis.