Asking Awkward Questions
Yesterday Tony and I took Lara shoe shopping, many normal women LOVE shoe shopping, as do I but having ickle feet I usually end up empty handed or disappointed. Lara wanted some lace up plimsoles cos they are still kinda trendy (apparently) but her normal shoe size came up too big in plimmies and the size under was too small. This was my fault (of course) and mother and daughter being of similar genetics......clashed. We stomped around a few shops and she settled on a pair - after me keep saying, you sure they fit OK, I don't wanna get home and you won't wear them! She also conned me into buying a pair of gold gladiator sandles and a new pair of black patent school shoes. Me I got a new pair of brown cropped linen trousers - in the same size as my old black ones, but these fit, so now I can assure myself that my old trousers had shrunk and not me got fatter LOL
We then headed into Chavsda because thats the supermarket in town to get some food for the evening, now Eurovision is on, yes its cheese on cheese and rubbish and we are cr@p at it......but I grew up on Eurovision, we would all watch together with lots of snacks and lots of laughter. The same tradition holds in our house, even Jack watches with us. I digress slightly, as we enter the store, there are lots of people dressed in pink representing our local hospice, trying to drum up support for their midnight walk.
Now I don't want to alienate all the breast cancer patients on here, many of you are me mates and all....and I applaud the way your cause has been championed and really 'marketed' for want of a better word with its association with all things pink. What I kinda objected to, is the fact our local hospice looks after people with ALL sorts of cancer's and terminal illness's so why did they choose Pink for their midnight walk? After all, Race for Life etc is already Pink. A lot of people associate Pink with BC now and thats fab, fair dues to all the hard work the BC charities and research groups have put in to raising awareness.......but for a hospice I needed to know why (cos like everyone with cancer, I want to champion my own cause). So I went right up and asked.
I was told that they chose pink because its vibrant and attracts attention. Yeah yeah ok I can live with that........and they did say if I wanted to do the walk I could it in grey for Brain Tumours. She then cleverly deflected my attention and said how fab I look considering (considering what 
) which I wasn't going to disagree with he he. Oh and I am free to go and look around anytime as they will more than likely "meet further down the line".........OK time to go, thanks for the chat......toodles......sheesh I was up the escalators in double time!
I hope I haven't offended anyone here with BC because that would upset me, I didn't set out with that agenda, I just needed answers for myself. I wish the BT community could liaise with your publicity and awareness people, because they know their stuff!
So awkward question asked and I left thinking more about my own journey and knowing I will probably need a hospice, I don't ever want to be a burden to my husband and kids or for them to have to take care of my 'personal needs'.........shudder at the thought.
So anyways, Eurovision! I did have some rollmops as I like to get some food from the country thats hosting it eats .... but the Norwegians eat a lot of fish and I don't do fish apart from smoked salmon or fresh tuna. The kids passed on the rollmops and went straight to popcorn! So poor little Josh (Essex boy) came last, unsurprisingly.....what the feck were we thinking with the Pete Waterman song! Graham was mildly amusing, still not a patch on Sir Terry but he'll have to do.
Right, gonna sign off before I put my ickle size 2.5-3 feet in with any other types of cancer on here.
dunno what this is, but it was growing under my eucalyptus tree and I think its pretty!
Thought for today:
Courage is as often the outcome of despair as hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, all to gain.
Diane DePoiters
