I am Runner 5

"Save the Forest, Destroy AI Data Centers"

The hospital is really busy right now (major surgeries booking into October), including lots of big patients (some have been bigger than me!) and that means the space is at a premium even just for me to walk around.  But sometimes I need to do something other than sew and writing up the stories of patients is one of my happy procrastinations where I don’t feel too guilty for letting them sit.  So thank you for being a reader, and letting me procrastinate with a bit less guilt! 😊

I have two recent stories I really wanted to share, so here is the first, the story of a mouse.

Unlike the patients above, Mouser is actually fairly small. Not tiny, but about ten inches tall. His person first wrote back in 2020, when Mouser was 29 years old. He had had an unfortunate run-in with a dog. Here are the diagnosis photos from then:

She also sent a photo of a similar (though not quite the same) younger mouse as a comparison:

We all know how 2020 went, so Mouser didn't come in then, but six years later (he’d been kept in a safe space all that time) his person wrote back. She was finally ready to send him to the hospital.

We agreed that the best treatment would be:

Repair injured foot

Recover both footpads

Fix finger toe stitches

Repair muzzle with new nose

Two new ears

Repair arm with new hand pad

Repair tail attachment

Gentle spa

Of course, these were subject to change as treatment proceeded (and you’ll see they did a bit) but that was the plan.

He took a short flight down the coast from Washington and started his treatment with a gentle spa. Here he is in his bubble bath:

You can sort of see in the photo, he’s kind of a bluish gray, which I couldn’t match exactly for his new ears and back of his missing hand, so there were two choices for his human to choose from:

She chose the shorter fur and surgery proceeded. I had a really good match for his pawpads.

Here's his heart being made and installed with a bit of original stuffing:

And here were his initial chubbiness approval pics:

He still needed some new toes and fingers:

And new whiskers:

And then, he was ready to fly home! His person wrote: He looks amazing!

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"I don't have a choice, I'm just following orders"

Although Eccleston has reprised his role as the Doctor for audio dramas from Big Finish in recent years, he's famously stayed away from playing the character again in the television series, even as contemporaries like Billie Piper and David Tennant have returns to the show. Asked during his C2E2 2026 spotlight panel whether he'd return to the series, he was blunt in his honesty: "I thought about this, [and] not with the four people who are running it now."

That said, he immediately then outlined what would bring him back to Doctor Who on television.

"Here's the thing: Doctor Who's written for boys. There has never been a female showrunner of Doctor Who," Eccleston said. "So my dream is this: there was a little girl who was, I don't know -- six, seven, eight -- in 2005 when my series went out, and she gets the job, and she asked me back? I'd go back like a shot."

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Pinhole cast on

This cast on allows you to knit in the round starting from the centre without leaving a hole!

Shown here: Square 43: The Lifted One, from my book Learn to Knit in 50 Squares, which introduces this cast on alongside lifted increases

From what I can see it's real, its someone from Canada who trains rescue rats 🐀 Source below