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Mothers’ Day, today, so first stop Sainsbury’s to sort out lunch. Cruised the aisles picking up recipe bits and bobs, then zizzed home to tidy the flat and start cooking. For a while, I thought I had far longer to get things sorted than I actually did - damned clock change. Why can’t we just stay on summer time all year around and benefit from the lighter evenings.

Pubbed with Trevor and Jon (and Midnight Weatherman and Steve’s Challenge) last night, and Trevor was saying that when he gets up for his early shifts at 4am sometimes in the summer it’s already light. So, why not crank back the start of the day until then and we can have daylight until well into the night.

And do the same in winter so we don’t get confused. If it upsets the farmers, give them night vision goggles.

Anyhow, got everything cooked on time, in spite of a pan burning exercise (put it on to boil without putting any water in it) which held things up slightly, and then sat down to eat with mum and Andrew. Hadn’t done dessert - after a week of sitting around book writing I think custard is the last thing I need, so instead baked coconut haystacks with cherries on top to eat with mugs of steaming tea.

So we munched and chatted into the afternoon, and then I sat down and did some research for tonight’s Through the Night feature. Decided on web sites for pets and came up with some truly bizarre bits and bobs.

Started with Dog Island, courtesy of B3TA where you can send your pet, free of charge, for life if it’s stressed of city life. They’re split up according to size but otherwise are left free to roam at will and apparently revert to the pack mentality of choosing their own partners.

There’s a phone number on the site but it just seems to go to voicemail rather than a real person.

But of course you couldn’t possibly let your dog head off to Dog Island without some nice new clothes. Loads of appropriate pet fashion to be found over at Rag Dog. My favourite outfits from the site are this one and this one.

But of course we couldn’t forget cats. If you’re a cat owner it’s very annoying trying to find the it when you’re going out of the house and you want to make sure it’s safely locked in, which is why you need the Cat Finder. It’s like those old keyrings that beeped so you could find your keys. Shame it makes your cat look like it’s wearing a pager.

But what happens when your pet eventually dies? Most people would take it to the vet to be cremated, but this company thinks that freeze drying is ‘the comforting alternative’. Going on the photos, the results look very much like the real thing, but I don’t know that I’d want my freeze dried cat curled up in an armchair as though it was still alive.

And after that we’ll finish on something cute.

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