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I love to travel and have been doing it since I was 17. I love polka dots. I love dresses. I love shoes. I love the colours purple and pink. I have been having a love affair with the American South for as long as I can remember and one of my favourite books is To Kill a Mockingbird. I looove coffee, but can’t really drink it because it presses my fast forward button. If you want to see me talk at warp speed, give me a white chocolate mocha. I’ll not only love you for it, I’ll love you for it in fast forward! I normally stick to tea, though.I love watching sci-fi shows. Nerd pride. I waited 28 years to find the love of my life and now that we’ve found each other I couldn’t imagine life without him and I can’t remember what it was like before him. I love hugs. I love to read. Photography, travel and history are my favourites, but I’m really not as boring as I sound. I read crime to be more exciting. I spell favourites with a ‘u’ because I am Australian even though it might look a little weird to people who use American English. I like to create new verbs out of existing words. Like right now, I am biographing myself. I also like mixing words, like Purplicious and Pinktacular! I like to name things. Like our car, it’s the ‘Enterprise’, or ‘Space Car’ because it’s so advanced everything is a button… just like I imagine things in the future would be. You want a white choc mocha? Easy, press a button! My camera is named ‘Henri’ after Cartier-Bresson, because I think it’s better than just plain old ‘Canon 5d’. I love animals, especially dogs and coo over them like most people do with babies. I also coo over babies. I love photography and I love weddings and I am blessed to be able to call my passion my profession.

March 22, 2014

The Golden Thread: Bentley cut his paw

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A couple of days ago I was out on the afternoon walk with Bentley when he suddenly stops and sniffs at the ground and then he looked up at me. His body language was a little tentative so I walked over to see what he was sniffing at. Blood. I hadn’t realised it was his until we started to move again and I saw that he was limping. So this time I checked properly and realised he had cut his paw on something in the snow. We hadn’t gone more than a few hundred meters but there was blood everywhere. The poor guy.

So I took a closer look and decided to call the vet for some advice and they said that he might need stitches. So it was off to Bagarmossen Animal Hospital for us. L was still at work but I called to see if on the off chance he had left early. He hadn’t so I ordered a cab and I have to say, Taxi Stockholm (apart from one incident where they refused to pick me up from Lilla Essingen and take me to Stora Essingen) have always been pretty reliable. The switch operator ordered a taxi that could carry a dog and the driver actually called me to tell me he wasn’t far away.

While we waited for the taxi poor B looked extremely unhappy and just let me put pressure on his paw. It’s honestly amazing to me that 5 people can walk past someone who obviously might need help… yet only the 6th person stops to ask… and she had a dog, herself. I don’t do well with blood or seeing people or animals hurt so I was fighting passing out. So, while in the Taxi on the way to the hospital I was thankful that Taxi Stockholm and that woman cared enough to help… or even just to ask.

Thankfully, he didn’t need stitches, but he limps quite a lot right now and he’s been really good and not chewed off the bandage. After a week he can hopefully take it off.