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I’ve been doing volunteer work at Laidley Library for four weeks, and Nicole told me last week that she was very happy with my work and Courtney said on Tuesday that I have been a great help. Also I found out on Tuesday that other clients at Luke’s Place Lockyer are also doing volunteer work, as one client is going to do laundry at a nursing home and another is doing fundraising.

I give my dog Ilse a Bow Wow Gourmet Pigs Ear once a week and then four times a week I give her a Pedigree Denta Stix then on the weekends I give Ilse either a Purina Beef and Bacon Dog Biscuit or a Meaty Bones Dog Biscuit and Ilsa is four years old this year and her teeth are still very clean.

And as my mum knows that I give Ilse a Pigs Ear once a week she has spoken to me about putting her dogs on them instead of bones as she knows Ilsa’s teeth are so clean. And this morning when I told her about the effectiveness of denta stix my mum said she’ll try them too.

Ever since I have been giving my miniature schnauzer Ilse the Angel Eyes supplement for her once badly stained beard I have been giving her canned dog meat as it mixes in better. And I also found out from my mother that they call Pal Dog Food Pedigree now and also for every can sold they donate money to animal shelters and I think they do the same for other products they provide. There are also two other canned dog food that I give my dog and that is My Dog Chicken and Spinach and Fish For Dogs and the Fish For Dogs come in three varieties, and they are Alantic Salmon, Ocean Fish and Barramundi, and Tuna with Sardines and the fish is mixed with chicken, rice, and veggies.

I also give Ilse a can of Fish For Dogs three times a week on its own, and then other times I give her a dry dog food called California Natural Chicken and Rice with Pedigree Homestyle Chicken, Rice, and Veggies. And another canned dog food I give on its own is My Dog Chicken with Spinach.

And I also got two or three cans of Evo canned Dog Food left, and they come in Duck, Chicken, Venison, and Rabbit but since I have been getting the other canned dog food I haven’t been getting the EVO canned dog food.

Vampires of Quentaris is by Paul Collins and is published by Hatchette Livre Australia Pty Ltd with its ISBN number being 978 0 7344 0985 0. And the main character for this story is a young man called Rad and he isn’t happy with how his town is being guarded.

Also as it turned out the town is warring with some other town, and so there isn’t very many soldiers left to guard the town well. Also I thought that Rad doesn’t have the respect of the soldiers that were left and they weren’t just disrespectful but undisaplined. And as the king is focusing so much on the war that is far away it was an ideal opportunity for his kingdom to be attacked by vampires. And when Rad found out about the vampires he finds it hard to find someone who would take him seriously. But then Rad thinks of a way to get rid of the vampires and is also helped by the Dung Brigadiers.

When I went to Luke’s Place on Tuesday we had Vegetable Tortilla Bake for lunch, and I got this recipe from a recipes+ magazine and it was for four people but six people had it. I also heard people say that this meal was very nice. Then I went to the library to do my volunteer work and when I got there I had to ask for the shelf check folder and I think they have highlighted all the shelves I do in yellow.

And when I had finished shelves 84 -86 Nicole then took me to shelf 96 or 98 and this time I had to take a row of books out and put them on the trolley then I had to check that the books were in alphabetical order, and I had to pull out the ones that weren’t and put them on the second shelf of the trolley. I also then had to put the books back in height order, and then at two thirty I took the chair that I was using back to the office or workroom and got my walker back as it stays in the workroom while I’m working. Then I took the the shelf check folder back to where I got it and signed out.

When I went to Luke’s Place yesterday the co-ordinator came up and told me that the Laidley Library was offering some volunteer work and would I be interested? And I told her yes and so the co-ordinater drove me to the library and when we went in I then said to Fiona who is one of the librarians I was told that the library is offering volunteer work and the co-ordinator said we need to speak to Nicole.

Fiona then got on her mobile and spoke to Nicole and she came out and I then followed Nicole to a table and she had sheets of paper that explained how things were done and what was expected.

I then had to answer questions then after that I was taken to the children section, and had to go through the books and make sure they were in the right place and then I had to mark on the sheet what ones I had done. And I did rows eighty to eighty three and even found a hidden toy on a shelf. Also when I go there I have to sign my name in a book and the volunteer work is for a month.

This is the fourth book in the Jelindel Chronicles that Paul Collins wrote, and it was published by Ford Street Publishing which is an imprint of Hybrid Publishers. Also the ISBN number for this book is 9781876462581 and in this book Jelindel realizes that Daretor’s expectations of her are too high, and we also find out about what his life was like while he was growing up as he talks about it to Zimak. Anyway, a man shows up on their doorstep in D’Loom and after talking to him Jelindel goes back to being Jaelin and goes off with this man as this place that they go to are looking for workers. And when Jaelin isn’t busy working she tries to find out what is happening, but somehow Preceptor’s men discovered that she was there, and Jelindel then gets sent to a paraworld that is hard to get out of and only the simpliest magic works.

And while Jelindel is there doing what she can, Daretor and Zimak make a pact with Fa’red as he wants to find out what Preceptor’s plans are, oh and the mailshirt which is also known as the wardragon is also in this story as it uncovers itself and is discovered by a person called Ras who puts the mailshirt on.

But then the wardragon thought that Ras wasn’t good enough for it to be a wearer, and as Ras walks in the Preceptor’s camp the mailshirt then changes hands and The Preceptor is now wearing it. However, he isn’t the person that he once was.

Also in this book Daretor and Zimak get their own bodies back, as that was the agreement that they made with Fa’red.

At Luke’s Place on Tuesday I played table tennis for the first time in years, and I was quite surprised when I discovered that I was good at it. And I also went to the library.