dead pets are forever

Quote of the day:

It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
-- Anonymous

I suppose this means I didn’t know I was missing this email until it arrived. This is not untrue. But when I was about eight my pet guinea pig Marengo died and I missed it straight away but this does not mean I didn’t know I had a guinea pig when Marengo was alive. Recently I read about a lady in the newspaper who turned her dog into a diamond ring when it died. I did some research into this and what you do is cremate the animal, then heat the ashes up to a high temperature and mix the carbon with some other chemicals to make a diamond. Prices start from start from £2,495. This seems like a lot to me; you are better off doing it yourself, if your microwave goes up to 3,000 C. Besides, I don’t need to wear the remains of an animal around my finger to remember it, if you are so worried about forgetting your dead pet, then you probably didn’t like it very much when it was alive. Marengo is dead now but I remember him, and not just because he pissed on the vicar’s lap when he came round for tea.