Peony the heated seats are wonderful aren't they... yesterday I had my friend in the car and turned it on without telling her. She suddenly exclaimed 'ooh my bum's getting all warm!!' 
Willie once said on a past thread
Carbs beget carbs
which I have found to be profoundly true. Not sure what the answer is, really, as I would so love to just be able to eat them in small and sensible amounts.
Dog food... CrazyCocker is prone to pancreatitis and has an absurdly sensitive stomach. Also intolerant of wheat. We give her Forthglade chicken wet food (72% meat) and James Wellbeloved kibble. I add ground flaxseed and slippery elm powder to her morning meal, which has made a big difference to how often she gets diarrhoea.
Speaking of diarrhoea... glad to hear your innards are slowly on the mend Trashy.
at Minny's freebie tour of P@H!
Eva standing for district councillor - I'm well impressed! Can't believe you were beaten by fucking UKIP. Actually I can believe it; our populace have been gripped my fucking madness. 
Sayra I keep meaning to do a fishy update, so here goes...
Fishy Update
The tank finally seems stable, after adding Tetra Safestart and waiting it out for a while. Ammonia and nitrite have been at zero for a couple of weeks now, although the nitrates get high as my tap water is already at 40ppm. Have put in a chemical to reduce/bind the nitrates which seems to work quite well. A few weeks ago the corydoras (named Pepper, Cory and Dora ) laid eggs, which I painstakingly removed and put into the little tank. I then looked at what they needed to hatch (constant airflow across the eggs, a sponge filter etc) and thought 'well that's not going to happen), then had to put the little filter into the big tank because we'd had a temporary disaster with the big filter and... etc etc boring drama... Anyway forgot all about the eggs. Put the little filter back in the little tank a couple of days later, just to leave it running, and a week or two later was just considering what to do with the little tank (as no ammonia being produced in empty tank to keep the bacteria ticking over) when DD discovered...
... Ta-da!! Baby corydoras! By some miracle of neglect, we have 7 baby fishies, who hatched and survived without any input or food at all. Good job I'd stuck a couple of half dead plants in there which I'd taken out of the main tank as they looked crap - the algae on them has obviously fed the fry. They're very cute and doing well.
When they get big enough they can go into the larger tank, but they'll have to be big enough to survive the killer shrimp; Jaws, Big Barry and Little Barry. The shrimp were supposed to be Yamato/Amano shrimp, little harmless cleaner-uppers with no claws. It slowly became apparent that several of them were neither clawless nor blameless when it came to the death of some of the smaller group members. In fact they are rather large and have fuck-off claws. So we have ended up, in a sort of shrimp survival-of-the-fittest contest, with 3 Macrobrachium lancasteri. We could have taken them back to P@H, but I'd already grown rather fond of their antics. They're funny and slightly sinister, and when I put garlicky food grains in the water they rush out from where they're hiding to wait for them to drift to the bottom, then zoom around like little multidirectional robots, gathering all the grains up and holding them all underneath them, like little easter eggs in a basket.
We lost one of the minnows, she got bloated with what I assumed were eggs, but then died very suddenly. The two long finned females have had fin rot, which I treated, and then one of them got a white spot on her tail, which I'm also treating, and so waiting for that to clear up before we get any more fishies. They all seem fine and happy though, and the minnow males are constantly displaying at and chasing each other.
How are your fry doing?