Pin it!

Having a great afternoon with Pinterest, a site that lets you "pin" your favourite images as you trawl around the web. You put together theme 'boards' so you can curate them and have everything in one place. It's a very visual site, great for when you see a stunning image and want to get back to it without scrolling through a whole site on a favourites tab. At present, it's run like a facebook site, and signing up is by invitation only. I don't know what sort of criteria they use for weeding out people who are shonky - I can imagine some would use it to put together all their favourite porno - but I seem to be safe enough to have made the grade. Although I have spent the last hour trawling Google Images for pictures of my favourite men. But all entirely decent and mostly above the waist, except for Slash, but then he is exceptional. It's fun to see how fast things get repinned by other people. At present the faves are the Nike of Samothrace and James MacAvoy! I have only three boards at the moment but I can see I will be adding to these.
       On a sad note, my cat Eddie had to be put to sleep on Friday. The tumour in his jaw was growing down his throat and he had lost weight, so I made the very hard decision to have him taken away while he was still himself, not some shivering ball of pain. I'm still unsure about which is the bravest action; to have a beloved animal put to sleep, or to let him go slowly in suffering. Did I not have the guts to see it through to the bitter end, or did I have guts in choosing to end his life peacefully on his behalf? It's particularly hard not to be able to discuss this with the patient - what would he have chosen to do if he had the power to make the decision? Emma is missing him, we both are. Every time I get up in the morning and open the door I still expect him to be there. He was such a good cat, a gentle gentleman. Bye, Eddie.