My dog Jasper is still alive and well. His chemotherapy treatment has gone very well, and he is a happy, enthusiastic dog. There haven't been many side effects, except feeling a little tired after treatment, and he's lost some of his whiskers. Everything has turned out well, and I've come to accept nothing lasts forever, so I'm enjoying every day I have with him.
He gets treated like a king and eats better than most people.

Haven't had much time to paint lately, what with working long hours and other stuff getting in the way. Unfortunately it's taken a back seat at the moment.

My beautiful, beloved 11yo fox terrier Jasper, has been diagnosed with cancer of the Lymphoma. He is at the vet's now getting an ultrasound.
I am absolutely devastated. Hopefully by the weekend he will have started chemo and I am going to contact a holistic vet so his immune system is as high as possible.

EDIT:
Just got Jasper back from the vet's. Luckily, the cancer hasn't spread to any organs. It's the best bad news I could have hoped for.
I do see some hope.

I love rain. I love being at home and sleeping when it rains, and I love painting when it rains. I even don't mind being caught out in the rain! At the moment a monsoonal low has come down from the north and is threatening my area with floods.

But there's something that happens when it rains that greatly disturbs me. Worms can't live in saturated soil!
Before you write me off as a total loony, hear me out.
I was coming back from my afternoon walk in the rain with my dog, Jasper (don't worry guys, he was wearing a raincoat and he loves the rain and water in general). Walking up my cement driveway I suddenly noticed all these poor worms writhing in unutterable despair. They had crawled up on the cement to try to escape the waterlogged soil and were on their last legs...er, metaphorically or course.
I quickly took action and picked them all up (I rescued 8 in total) and took them to a large flower pot filled with lovely dry soil. They quickly disappeared.
I quite fancy myself opening a worm refuge (much like a worm farm except this is a safe place worms can go in time of need) and perhaps one day, when the ground is dry enough, I can release them back into the wild, hopefully without rehabilitation.

First thing tomorrow I am getting up to see if there are any more poor souls in need of a nice dry home, but it will probably be too late by then (it's been raining for a while now).



Don't forget the worms!!!

*UPDATE: Mere minutes within posting this journal, I walked outside and saved 13 more!

Saved worm tally: 21

Hey...I got a flash new website...made in Flash.
It's the first ever website I've made in the program, but I am still pretty chuffed with it.
Coming up next...an animation!!! 70% done, which needs to be finished in less than 9 days.

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And oh yeah! Photographer Anna Osk (who recently took pictures of me, see ID for example) entered one of the photos into the National Portrait Gallery photographic awards and she was shortlisted! The awards are a MASSIVE deal in the world of photography. She sent down a big print of me, in a big gold frame, which she told me makes it look like a renaissance painting! So I am going to be hanging in a national gallery for a while.

The photo: [link]

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I've joined the ranks of Etsy.com! I'm selling Aceos, jewelry and t-shirts.
I'll be uploading stuff over the next few days so keep an eye out!
There's so much cool stuff on that site!

My Shop: [link]