Aww...tears in my eyes at the thought of Herbs and Auriga saying goodbye to their lovely moggies. So sad for you both. 
Sounds like you had a nice meet-up today, good to know the fizz was flowing.
I've barely had a moment on MN this week. DH was in Paris for a couple of days, there was much running around after DCs (no change there), and I had another Pageant Committee meeting (am slowly getting the measure of everyone, and latching on to all the local goss). DD1 had an excellent week of work experience; they really looked after her, and gave her some quite meaningful tasks. She came home on the last day with a massive goody bag of make-up, and gave precisely none to DD2, who was green with envy.
Meanwhile DS has not distinguished himself mocks-wise, scraping a C in Business and an F in Biology, which he has to retake. He sees no correlation between his poor results and his complete lack of revision. Several emails flying back and forth between school and myself.
I don't know what else I've been doing, but I feel like I've been running around like a hamster on a treadmill. Does anyone else find the weeks just whirring around faster and faster??
One more week of my forties left. Yikes.