A week of combing through life's lumps, bumps and blighters

This week I have mainly been thinking about how it felt to drive to the hospital for my bladder scan on Saturday, and that Highways Maintenance managers should be required to drive the roads of Lancashire with a full-to-bursting bladder as a way of identifying all the lumps, bumps, and potholes in our roads.

- Jane Binnion

This week I have also taken a new and hard line with my four legged house mates. After finding a tic in my cat's neck, despite ensuring she is up to date with her treatments, I was reliably informed by our local pet shop owner that that popular, but pricey, brand of flea treatment we can buy in most supermarkets is neither use, nor much of an ornament. And so, knowing it's a bad tic year, I did some research into the life of fleas and discovered they live quite happily in long grass just waiting for a warm host to come along. As a result, now neit