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Now I don't normally blog on a weekend but this, I think is important. There are a great bunch of people on here who have just started to work together to do a Calendar for 2010 to raise money for the Macmillan charity. However, time is rushing on and we need as much professional help as we can. So please, search through the skills of your friends and family, work colleagues and even people you don't really like - can…

Afternoon all - and here is the update from my pre op review at the hospital on Wednesday and our trip into London after. Well they called it a pre op review and that it would last two or three hours. What were they going to do? My operation was only going to last about 6 hours so was this going to be a trial run? Or were they going to let me see the same operation on someone else so that I knew what was going to happen…

Hi all. Welcome to the conclusion of my first dozen of these ramblings on here. And what a great story I've got for you today! So, yesterday was a day that started with absolutely no plans at all. Now it has been years since I have had a day like that. No plans, no requirements, no "just got to do...". But what about the swimming and the long walks I hear you say? Well, I'd messed up the rhythm of the swim one day walk…

Monday was a "sod it" day here at Candles Cottage... After writing my last blog I meant to get down to some work. Now, as I only planning to work a few hours each day, the "in tray" seemed to have suddenly filled up and I didn't know how. Oh yeah, it was because I was only working a few hours each day and my "to do" list was now as long as an arm. So I needed to knuckle down and clear the backlog. So what did I do? I…

So I'm up to number 10 of my blog on here. Not 10 days as I have decided that unless there are special circumstances that I will have the weekends off. See my new work ethic is paying off!! But I do need to tell you about the weekend as it became probably the most important weekend of my life... At about 3am on Saturday morning, well during the night really isn't it, I needed to get up and have a wee. Nothing but normality…