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  • The Bad, the Ugly ... and the Good

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    I like to think that I am a modern, up-to-date, finger-on-the-ball kind of girl ...

    "Girl?!"

    Mmm ... I guess that is one of my problems ... at the ripe old age of 41, I still consider myself to be a ‘girl’. Note to oneself – New Year’s Resolution to find and adopt new and appropriate description ... mmm ... babe ... chick ... err ... maybe not ...

    I love IT. No, not it .... I.T. Information…

  • Can’t get used to losing you

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    Friday, 18 December 2009Can’t get used to losing you,  no matter what I try to do, gonna live my whole life through .. loving you. Jerome "Doc" Pomus and Mort Shuman - 1963

    It was Sunday supper. I decided to talk a little bit about the progress of my treatment to the boys. They don’t ask many questions and don’t talk about it too much so I try to subtly drop tidbits into day to day conversations. “…

  • An A to Z of ABC

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    "Well ... that was like attending a Help the Aged Christmas party", I declared, as I stomped into my doctor’s consulting room. He gave a wry smile, but said nothing. I am sure in under his breath he said “Oh I thank God we don’t have too many like Paula".

    Of course, if it had all gone to plan then it would have gone well. But of course, things don’t. It was Tuesday morning of my third week…

  • The train now leaving platform 5….

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    At times like this, continuing with one's life seems impossible... and eating the entire contents of one's fridge seems inevitable. I have two choices: to give up and accept permanent state of spinsterhood and eventually be eaten by Alsatians... or not, and this time I choose not. I will not be defeated by a bad man and an American stick insect! Instead, I choose vodka. And Chaka Khan.

    I had a party to go to this…
  • Big C's little c

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    Big C's little C
    I am not sure if you have noticed, but I haven’t spoken about ‘it’ in my last two blogs. ‘It’ being the Yukky Lump of course. This was intentional, on my part, though I am not totally sure why. Perhaps a bit of me thought you might be getting a tad bored with it by now and that I should lay off it for a while. Maybe it was my way of attempting to say that although cancer has taken over part of…