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  • Tuesday

    Hats off to Rachel McDowell for (finally!) making it down to the big southern smoke all the way from Manchester, to sit with me at CCL for the day during treatment – now that is a jolly good effort. Very good to catch up in a much more leisurely fashion that is usually possible –…

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  • Sort of a Big Day

    Saw Prof today – a weird moment as is the 8th anniversary today of me meeting him for the first time and being diagnosed with this previously unheard-of thing called Myeloma. And as ever the Myeloma mystery path continues. I seem to have already hit a plateau using the new wonder drug, Dara. But this…

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  • I Still Love Billy

    Fab Sat night out at Wembley Stadium with Janine, Clare G, her daughter Floss, Jane & Jon and Paul Taylor – seeing my much loved first musical hero, Billy Joel. (Or 'Billy Idol' as the stadium announcer managed to somehow say.. Now that would have been disappointing).. All got totally soaked at 6pm as we…

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  • Race Night for Shelter

    Went off to Clare Greenwood & Tony Franco's Race Night in Balham last night – not been to one of those for about 20 years, since the good old Surbiton Hockey Club fund-raisers of the 1980's….                       You basically watch 8 old races, ranging from…

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  • And this is why…

    … you should never park under the Purple Poo Tree right outside our house, no matter how tempting the empty space bang in front of our home may look…. This was the impact after 24 hours only. Berry Armageddon!  

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  • Prof update and the usual old bollocks

    Not to put too fine a point on it…. I had this all so beautifully worded as I lay awake at 2.30-5am last night, but here it comes in top of mind bluuuurgh format instead. The good news – my PP has dropped below 2 for the first time since treatment started waaaaaaaaay back in…

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  • Bank Holiday Cottage Weekend

    An unusual one – J&R were 'up north' at a party and seeing Ross's lovely sister Hilary & hubby Jim, so we had the lovely cooty pad to ourselves. With a 2 night visit from the Nurses, sandwiching a nearby wedding with a stopover in very sunny Thakeham. Had a peaceful two nights to ourselves,…

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  • Clogland Drop Off

    Yesterday I took Mum over to Holland stay with Cathy for the next two weeks – a day trip to the lovely Schiphol airport and back. Made worth it by the appearance of not only big sis, but the two smallest nieces. Who nearly blotted their 'there's a present for each of you  in Scotty's…

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  • Labradoodle Chewdle

    Hmmm, check these out – my one pair of very old favourite glasses – newly 'adjusted' by Flossie's canine gnashers. First the nose pieces went, to be beautifully replaced by lumps of sticking plaster. Then she snaffled them again – and this time bit right through one of the lenses (top right) and chewed the…

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  • Spot of the South Downs Way

    Bloody hell – you can see why people fling themselves off Beachy Head – went up there with Janine, Hawksey and the mutts and my knees were knocking with fear about 5 yards from the – incredibly sheer and non-railinged – mega edge. Amusing number of Japanese tourists doing selfies with the white cliffs of…

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