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Going Wombling
It seems fitting that the bunch of girls I meet up with every now & then to go litter picking on the Common, are mates from my Wimbledon Hockey days. Or The Womblers, as we named our WhatsApp group. I've known Jo, George & Clarkie for – oh god – 33ish years, since I first…
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Stem Cell Harvest update
So, it was a bit of a long couple of days hanging out at King's trying to ignore the huge needles, pumping machines and the desperate need to wee come the last hour of each session. Was there 9.5 hours on the first day but day 2 was blessedly shorter. Not helped by there being…
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Prep for Stem Cell Harvest
Bit poo starting this week as it's the next stage of prep for my upcoming stem cell harvest. I spent a not very joyous 4 hours at King's Hospital last Wed, a bit like Crystal Maze, trying to work out where each of the 9 (!) different places I had to get to, was, and…
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A Crazy Christmas
Phew – and breathe! Good to be back home and with nothing more to do than write this and collapse back onto the sofa, after a VERY busy three weeks or so in the run up to Christmas and the festive bit itself. In rough chronological order – and with apologies to those lovely peeps…
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The Thailand Trip
Well there’s nothing like coming back from 2.5 weeks in 40 degree heat in Thailand to a house where the boiler’s broken and we practically had to crack our way into our frozen rooms.. Yep, even that isn’t enough for you to forgive us for being somewhere hot while the cold snap descended here, I…
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Birthday Girls and Bogging Off
Managed to get the AV5 together last night for the join Jane & Janine November birthdays. Quite weird that Clare had kept a partly written card for Janine from 2 years ago – as both the last 2 were cancelled due to Covid and Jane's broken hip! So very good to meet at J's for…
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Pre-hols Social Whirl
It's been a very busy – and very nice – week or so, seeing various groups of people and chinwagging away. Started with a cheeky night out with K and Curly, plus Jane and Sarah – went to a new little Mexican place in CXlapham on the former site of a cocktail bar I used…
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BBQ Brisket & Rugby weekend
THANK GOD – Hawksey cooked his first ever brisket on the Red BBQ Monster last weekend and it was TRIUMPHANT. A bloody good job considering it was delivered by Janine from a very nice farm in West Sussex, seasoned here, cooked for 12+ hours and then TA DA – the monster hit the table as…
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Bollocky Birthday Wot No Post
Fuck a duck – some random postie has just rung the bell and handed over 5 of my missing birthday cards. 9 DAYS LATE!!!!!! I'm pretty sure none of the kind friends who sent them would have…
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Paree Chez Dora
David & Mandy came down for a visit this weekend – a much better weekend than my birthday (major wash out due to vomiting bug brought with them by my family coming to see Cathy & me pre-birthday – so much for our dinner, bed & breakfast booking – I managed a bit of brek…