Friday and after laying out PE Kits on the dining table with a lunch each for Jack & Lara (Sean was still poorly) we set off for the monthly visit to see the Wizard of Onc. Fairly run of the mill journey over and parked with a clear conscience in the private oncology/ radiotherapy/ chemotherapy carpark and went in. Checked in and sat down, waited.........my oncologist has TERRIBLE time keeping, she is rarely IN the hospital at the time my appointment is supposed to be. I am sure she phones reception when she gets in because we are ushered round to the inner waiting room and she walks down to her office within minutes. Don't get me wrong though, she is a very good and personable onc! I am guessing I will probably see Sekar her registrar but oh nooooooooooo he's been reassigned and she has a new female one. Walk in and sit down, ooooooooooh she is confident, I ask where Sekar is cos I like him...I can bully him and she didn't look like I could bully her much. She laughed and got on with business. She asked all the right questions and filled out my blood form for next month. Once again Kim my NON had put my prescription in at the pharmacy the day before (otherwise I would have had at least a 1.5 hr wait while they prepared it) and I walk straight up to the desk, passed all the hundreds of people clutching purple receipts and get my "order". I can feel the daggers in my back but I LOVE IT lol Obviously not everyone in the hospital knows how special I am yet...but they will over time 
Slow drive back, in beautiful sunshine I adore sunny late summer days, something very serene about them. We stop off at an Aquatic Centre and then a Garden Centre and buy another marginal for the small pond we now have. Having had a choccy croissant and cuppa tea before left this morning, we were not too hungry but decided to go to Costa's and have a coffee and pannini for lunch. Walked around a few shops and got home around 2.30pm. After speaking to the owner of a watergarden centre and explaining we only want "native" fish in our wildlife pond, he suggested we go catch them ourselves, although he was licensed to sell them, no one supplies them. We waited for Lara to get home but she rang to say she was faffing around Tesco's with her friends, so we load the dogs into the car and take Sean out for some fresh air. Jack was already up his room for the rest of the day!
Drove to the small country park that our development borders and down to the tiny stream, we let the dogs off and soon realise we'll have little chance of catching anything with Ollie splashing around in the stream. Dexter has never really bothered with water other than going and have a little drink..Ollie straight in and splish splash. Sean catches two tiny litle sticklebacks and puts them into the bucket. We walk along the stream with the dogs getting a good romp around, Sean almost paddles a few times whilst 'fishing' with his net and Tony and I just enjoy the late afternoon sun. Perfect weather for me, warm enough not to need a jacket but not too hot. We decide to walk back and Sean and Tony are a little disappointed with just two teeny weeny sticklebacks, just as we are going to walk back to the car, Sean decides to have one more dip with the net......6 sticklebacks in one swoop. A few more dips and each time a few little fish come up. His last dip and he caught a fair sized stickleback and a couple of Boatman's.
We return home and Lara is of course upset she didn't get to fish and once the fish have been transferred to our pond, which we added some large pebbles in one corner for cover and an almost conical terracotta pot the other end for shade and were happily whizzing around exploring the marginals and shelves and pot and pebbles, Lara took off to the pond at the end of our road to "fish". She came back with nothing in her bucket....she said the pond had turned green (its almost two ponds joined so like a number 8 shape) and that the smaller end had all but dried up. In her hand was a very dry little newt with a gorgeous orange belly, he didn't look too good to be honest, but she sat him on a lily pad and after we watched for a minute or so, he took off into the water, swam around and settled between a couple of the marginal plants on the shelf, I really do like newts.
I cooked Lara some salmon & rice for dinner as we were having Indian and she doesn't really like it. The rest of us shared Chicken Tikka, Chicken Korma, Chicken Tikka Massala, Onion Bhaji's, Samosa's, naan bread and pilau rice. There were lots left over as the males of the house were not too hungry - MAN FLU!!!!!!!
Friday night went as most do, PS3 on - Guitar Hero and then a little Need For Speed before some TV and an early night.
Lucy glad to have read your daring cookery attempts the other day, keep me posted. Shez sorry Thursday's episode was late but as you can see, I was up with the Larks to get to hospital and didn't write it till we got home. That concludes Friday's thrilling instalment of "the glamorous & jetset lifestyle of a brain tumour patient on one wage"
