The Lovely Amanda

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Heath Ledger has the Joker with the use of a little photoshop magic, yeah I know too much time on my hands .

Happy Valentines and all that shit

Its Doyles fourth Birthday today, I really didn't think he was going to make it this far just a few weeks ago. He seem's to be doing ok but we are just takeing each day has it comes and appreciating every minute he is still here with us, he is such a pampered pooch lol. We have another Vet visit on the 22nd of this month so wish him luck.

I would like to thank everyone who has left a lovely comment, your support has ment a lot to both me and .Amanda

Take care peeps

The past week or so has been pure hell.

It started last Saturday when we took Doyle to the vets because he had a bloated stomach and looked a little uncomfortable. At the time I really didn't think it was much to worry about but I was wrong, very wrong indeed. The vet diagnosed him with a heart murmur and wanted to do more test on the little guy so we had to leave him with her. This was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. Ever since we adopted Doyle three years ago he has never been left on his own without a family member there to keep him company, I don't think I will ever forget the look on his face has the vet walked him away from us. At that moment in time I thought that is going to be the last time we see ever see him.
Waiting for the vets to ring us back and tell us what the hell was happening was just unbearable, it was like you wanted them to ring at the same time has hoping they don't encase its bad news, no news is good news right!. Eventually the phone rang and we was given the ok to come and collect him (so far so good), but when we got there the news wasn't good in fact it was the largest stinking pile of shit encumbered news possible. The vet believed he had an assortment of problems with his organs varying from Heart failure, an enlarged liver, a mass on his spleen which is possibly a tumour and his Kidneys were failing. So all in all it was just the worst news possible. Putting him to sleep was a very close thing but luckily the vet decided to refer us to see a heart specialist at Liverpool Uni on the following Tuesday.
I can't put into words how difficult these few days were but let's just say I was a complete fucking wreck. I was just stuck in panic mode because I felt I was loosing something very important to me and I couldn't do a damn thing about it. I couldn't sleep or eat I was physically sick and lived off alcohol and Kalms. I can't say Amanda was doing any better than me it was just fucking awful for everybody concerned.
Tuesday morning was one of the worst because at the time we believed that it could be Doyle's last. I was dreading taking him to the specialist in fear of more bad news. It's a good thing Amanda and my parents were there to help answer all the questions because I just mentally froze up, I just sat there with my head in my hands hoping the vet will tell us our puppy is fine and our local vet got it wrong (again). They ran more test on the our baby dog whilst we all walked around Liverpool for what seemed to be the longest day ever waiting for my phone to ring so we could go back and find out the outcome of their tests.
After some hours my mobile rang and I passed it onto Amanda (I hate talking on phones at the best of times and this certainly wasn't a fucking good time). We were instructed to come back in and talk to the vet about the outcome of their findings. The news wasn't great but it also wasn't awful, it could have been far worse I suppose. Doyle does have a deadly heart defect in fact it has quite a few but with a shit load of drugs it is treatable (not curable) and should prolong his life, to what extent nobody knows or if they do they aren't telling. The enlarge liver, dodgy kidneys and possible tumour was a no show, the swelling of the stomach was a side effect of Doyle's leaky heart valves and will settle down when the drugs kick in (which he will be on till the day he dies).
It's been a wee while now since he started his treatment and already he has shown an improvement though today he seems a little bit down but the vet did warn us one of the side effects of one of the many pills he is on will make him depressed for a short while.
We are back at Liverpool with him this Wednesday for a check up so wish him luck, God knows the poor fellow needs it.

Well it was my birthday a little over a week ago so now Im a misserable old bastard which is rather nice because thats one of my ambitions in life .

So what did I do for my Birthday I here you ask!
Well I went out for a quiet night out drinking with some other old bastard's and Amanda. By quiet I ment we went to a noisy ass rock bar followed by some choice chav haunts where some....thing told me I resembled Michael Hutchence, it was probably the belt around my neck that did it (I kid I kid).

Look I got pressies



Broken Saints is bloody good, if your like comic books you'l probably like this.



I love me some sci-fi cowboy action, I refuse to appologise for how gay that sounds



This should be on the way to me once Amazon get their arse in gear.



I finally gave in out of frustration and got me a 360 due to the lack of decent games coming out for the ps2 recently. I think Im in love .

New piccies for ya veiwing pleasure


The lovely Miss Vicky


Amanda


Ok thats all folks Im off, can't stay around here all day when theres hungry snakes to be fed.

An update is long overdue so heres a list of what Ive been up too since my last update.

Watched

Superman Return's. Its not has bad has I thought it would be but I'm still not keen on the new dude in the tights.

The Proposition. Now that is a cracking film, I'm pissed I never got the chance to see it at the cinema.

Tom Waits Live: Some great and not so great footage of the great man but with Mr Waits you take what you can get your hands on.

New Cd's added

The Eagles of Death Metal: Death by Sexy. Bloody good stuff with lashings of cheese.

Socialised

Stag do followed closely by the Wedding do. I found a new skill at the wedding do. Apparently I can do a spot on Belinda Carlisle whilst huffin Helium, don't try it at home kiddies.

Oh I nearly forgot; we took our pooch too a pet show and he won best dog; he rocks even though he's a miserable bugger.

Currently listening too

Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Which is pretty damn good. It follow's the earliest recording of the blues right up to modern times though it does feel incomplete without a Led Zeppelin ditty.

Currently Playing

Resident Evil 4 on the PS2 and it rocks although the careless bint is a wee bit annoying.

Plans for the weekend

There's a possibility I could be out for a wee drinkie on Saturday and meet up with Amanda later on cause she's out on a hen night. Poor Lass.
Sunday I'm doing a shoot for a Local Metal band which should be fun and a nice change.

I'll leave you with two new piccies

After hearing that Heath Ledger was going play the Joker in the next Batman movie I thought I'd have a little photoshop doodle.

Before




After

Whilst cleaning out the attic and getting covered in dead mans dust (yes thats where my name came from) of the yet to be moved into new house (don't ask its a long story) the lovely Amanda found some long lost treasure. No not of the golden variety but of the photographic type, you see her great uncle (who's house it once was) was a bit of a budding photographer and liked to take photos of lovely naked ladies . Now I have a small (but well formed) collection of B&W nudes dateing from the 1960s in my possession which a can't resist introducing to 21st century technology .




Photographs by K. Moss photoshopping by me