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  • No Prof News till 22nd

    In case you were wondering (because it is riveting stuff after all… snore….) my next appt with his High Profness isn't till 22nd Feb. Which is quite weird in a way – the longest he's ever let me go between appointments has been a max 3 weeks… then once 4 weeks. All a load better than…

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  • depressing…

    NOT SURE YOU'LL WANT TO READ THIS BUT ITS WHATS IN MY HEAD RIGHT NOW.. APPROACH WITH CAUTION.. REALLY. I know you all keep saying how well I'm doing with dealing with all this… cancer shit…. but honestly – I don't think I am at the moment. Well, at all, truth be told. I am…

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  • Checks and Balances

    So – yesterday I finally broke my long term exercise 'duck' and got off my fat ass to stroll around a hockey pitch. Only for half a game as am trying to schmooze my way into a new team – Aces – who have the major bonuses of about 5 people I know playing for…

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  • Feckadoodle – Am I Coming or Going?!

    Where am I? Oh this looks like my living room… I'm starting to wonder! So – was meant to be going to Turkey last week and that got postponed – actually a blessing giving the traumas of getting in and out of airports in the piles of icy white stuff. Then was meant to be…

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  • One Year On..

    Bit of an odd feeling today – its the one year anniversary of getting my stem cells back at Parkside. In some ways its a good place to be right now – paraprotein continues to be scored at 'apostrophes-1', meaning its barely detectable. My bloods are good (of course, blue), I'm on no medication whatsoever, apart…

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  • Holidays and Diaries

    Fer feck's sake????????!!!!!! How hard can it be to get some holiday in the diary? Bloody hard if that last few weeks are anything to go by. Apologies to anyone waiting for me to get my act into gear – a very annoying phenomenon called 'client work' (what is this irritating, repetitive thing?) is buggering up…

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  • Random Week’s Update

    So then – no one major thing standing out this week – has been a conglomeration of snapshotty small bits so here they come! Starting with the nice big one – we had Andy Morts staying with us for the week (rehearsing for yet another heinous opera thing that he always swears I'll like and…

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  • Blimey – Cool Stats or What?

    Here's one for you quanty tech-heads out there. I was just having a look at my Blog Stats (yes, there's a phrase I don't use too often) and I have to say – you guys have been amazing! Since AV kindly set it up for the technically-challenged numpty that I am, it's attracted over 5,000…

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  • And the ‘Comments’ Award Goes To….

    Mr Michael 'Monkeyboy' Martin (Mrs Swadley to most of us) For posting the most comments in response to my dribbling bloggage this year… you've been a star. Cheers for typing many a reply, Mikey and those others of you who put finger to key so I know you're out there (others – encouragement here for you all…

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  • Christmas Tales & Photos

      So then – January 1st already – who the hell's been speeding up the Time off Work dial?? Has been a leisurely but varied Crimbo in 3 main stages of stufferoony. 1. Nesting Chez Stroud Road: We were meant to be having Zoe for the week before Christmas, but needless to say, the Queen…

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