Happy New Year, Happy New Year.

I don't know the rest of it.

Is that even a song?

Yeah, Abba.

Is it?

Yeah.

You know, those people that we're going to see for my 60th birthday in July. Oh, of course. Yes. I hope you've got that in your diary. Oh, I'm, of course I have. I'm really looking forward to it. It's something to look forward to in this year. Yeah, about the only thing. Oh, Ian. It hasn't started very well. I know, I know.

Go on. Be kind to me, listeners.

My dog is not very well.

I've had a horrible day.

She, um, if you, if anybody who follows me on Instagram will know that we had a lovely

time me and her at the caravan last week, lots of walking on beaches and in her case, well in both of our

cases smiling. And then we got back and she became a bit stiff. Anyway, to cut a long story short,

by two days ago, she was sort of really limping and sort of whining. The vet thought it was a problem with her shoulder,

but then by yesterday she couldn't even move out of her bed.

And it turns out that she may have slipped a dip.

Well, in one way, I hope she has slipped a disc.

But it was yesterday she was at risk of paralysis.

She poked up a bit this morning.

So she spent the night at the vet sedated.

Today she's had to go to a special vet where she's currently having a CT scan.

And if it is a slip disc, she'll be having an operation later on today.

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