GIMP Gate

Well, August was definitely A Month. Work has been a perfect storm of urgent projects, some of which involve instructors who either don't like change or who have spent the last 12 months thinking that "You need to update your course labs to Windows 11 by October 2025", is an issue that they might deal with at the end of September 2025. I am so very, very tired of sending chase emails.

Chelsea and Fluffball have also had A Month. As they're too old for pet insurance to be a sensible financial proposition, we signed them up for the vetplan scheme instead. Which means that we pay a monthly fee for each of them and that covers flea treatment, worming treatment, vaccinations, and consultation costs at the vet. They promptly decided to make the most of that with a series of minor ailments.

( Cut for discussion of pet health issues )

Fluffball has tried to assist on the work front but he's very bad at sending chase emails.



I've done some fun things this month too. There's been another Gromit Unleashed statue trail and keziath and I somehow managed to track all of them down despite ourselves. There were, of course, some Feathers out there too and I particuarly liked Toucan Tango with his tail feathers held on by his belt: