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Morning all

Pretty vile outside here in the Peaks.

So I am up, dressed and eaten breakfast, washing is on, what next. 

Glad Polly is getting better, she gave us all a scare

I know what you mean about getting organised Mark, I have got as far as writing a list of people who I need to get presents for. We need to organise Christmas cards, hubby wants to make them but we can't come up with a design. 

Gillian - My concern with getting organised is that I have to do it and have stuff sent, etc., before I fly away for Christmas, and, at the same time, think of something I can take with me, and get into my check-in luggage when I fly, to give to Karrin... and, well, she's not easy to buy for really... I'm so stuck!

Was pretty horrible weather wise here first thing, though the sun has come out since, so its feeling a bit brighter and better now...

Very slow start to the day... woke up, and just counl't make myself get out of bed... - Eventually turned out at about 11, when I realised I really should have taken drugs hours before!

A bowl of tinned soup for lunch, with two fried cheese sandwichs (yeh, I'm so* healthy now... right...)

caught up on my medication for the day, and threw a load of laundry in to wash (well eventually once I recalled I need to do it...)

now just waiting for laundry to finish washing and trying to decide if I've energy for anything  much today...  - I swear I'm randomly getting radiotherapy fatigue creeping up on me, just as I'd thought I'd finished with the fatigue thing from chemo! - I'm getting that same feeling I had during chemo, now, when I wake in the morning... getting to be a struggle to make myself get out of bed! damnit!

Back in leggins today, with the short dress, far too cold for stockings...

Really should go upstairs and try rearrange my wardrobe more sensibly; It had a very logical and ordered, well, order to it, for decades, but now, there's not a single item of 'male specific' clothing in it, I've got to try get a grip on a new scheme for  organising the new range of clothing, OK, so blouses are basically like shirts, I can figure that out, but dresses, skirts?; do I just organise them as I used too jeans and trousers... Well, I guess they can go next to the jeans I have, and the leather trousers, and then the leggings, then maybe skirts, and dresses beyond that... that might be a sensible progression/order to the new world!

And... how daring do I want to be?; do I just take female clothing... my new clothing, with me to my Dad's, next week, or, a mixture, or... well, actually, as the wetaher is likely to be not great, and we'll likely do a lot of walking across the fens and marshes, etc, I guess jeans and trousers is sensible anyhow... Hmm.... I think clothing has taken over lymphoma as my major source of concern now... this is probably a good thing!

Hope all are OK and not getting too much of the bad weather today

It was a beautiful morning, then clouded over and threw it down, now this afternoon sunny again.

Car worries were sorted, the clutch pedal linkage was all out of line for some reason! So they put it right and wouldn't charge us! What a brilliant garage!

Thinking of you all, glad you feel OK to get up and dressed, Gillian.....

Hugs to everyone xxx

Hi Gillian,

Great to hear you are ok, weather pretty grim here too. We are Dales (edge of Peak District) so probably very similar to what you are getting.

Moomy, wow, no charge; great garage!

Mark, I'm not a very girly girl so jeans and fleece are my main items of dar wear in the winter. My friend, who is girly, tends to wear ribbed polo necks and lovely scarves when we go out walking so she always looks glam. I wouldn't know where to start with a scarf!!

Hope everyone is ok, Christine how are you?

Got a day with my brother and his family tomorrow, we were planning a bike ride but think the weather might force a plan B. There is a charity day at our local dairy farm/ ice cream parlour so might do that instead.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

Love Jakki xxx

Hello my lovelies

Polly was stood by the door waiting for me when we got home tonight,although much improved i think she still feels poorly as she makes no attempt to get out of the bathroom yet,thank you all for thinking of her,she really does belong to us all doesn't she,Medusa is at the vets monday so we may well have 2 cats indoors overnight sunday & monday,can't wait for that one,not

I'm quite a girly girl Mark & winter time i wear thick tights with skirts & dresses,long sleeved tops or blouses & pretty scarves,they're easy Jakki,you'd soon get the hang of it,kilts are a big favourite at this time of year as you can put some lovely woolly jumpers with them,when you say dad lives in the fens Mark where does he live as we have marshes round where i live

Weather has been strange here today,sun,rain,bit more sun,bit more rain & now it's windy & cold

Pleased you're feeling better Gillian

Oh Moomy you have such a clever daughter,takes me all my time to put a post on here let alone set up a website,work keep emailing me to join the face book page but i'm not on there so they're wasting their time on that one

Hope everybody else is doing as well as can be,special hugs to those that need them

Love & hugs to all

xx

Jakki - Scarfs I so need to investigate! - Asides anything because we've  lots of stalls on the market here, that always turn out nice looking scars, really cheap; very silky/lacey feeling ones, that I've been tempted at before, but, likewise; I'd just not know how to wear them properly really!- so many colours, adn cheap enough I guess I could end up with a drawer full if I wanted! - I always used to just about perminatnly wear jeans; until I put the weight on during chemo, I had a loverly pair of female Levi's I'd had for several years; one of my best achievements  to that point I always had thought; years and years back I was over 17.5 stone in weight; I gradually over the years lost weight, until, just before Christmas last year (so just before I got diagnosed with the lymphoma), I was down to 11 stone 12 LB- the Levi's were a 30 inch waist, and starting to get lose on me! - K Now I can but dream of getting into those levis!- back before last Christmas I was seriously thinking of trying to aim to lose a bit more weight, and get into a 28" waist! - thinner than I'd been in my living memory, ccertainly a smaller waist than when I  was 16! = now... I'm about a 36" waist! so horrible! - And, of course, it might be part of my success back then losing weight, was aided and abetted by my having cancer damnit!- so not all down to will power to lose the weight... oops!

Carol (I remembered the name!) - I'm living in these leggins at the moment, which are afterall I guess basically like thicker tights, and I've a couple of longer skirts that are quite warm, so they may do me for a lot of winter, and I've quite a collection now of nice long sleeved, and 3/4 sleeve blouses, mainly linen ones which I like a lot, plus some long-sleeved tee shirty type tops that are rather nice, plus a linen 3/4 sleeve red beaded jacket I can wear over any top to make it a bit warmer!

Fens: Suffolk fens, I was born and brought up in Lowestoft, but I seem to have for the time being settled here in Cambridge; seriously considering a move, with William to Norwich at some time in the near future, as we both love Norwich, and its just so much cheaper prices than here in Cambridge! I did live for a year and a bit in Manchester, too, back in, err, 2001 I think when I was studying there for my Masters degree, and sometimes still visit Manchester...


Well. did some more organisation in the wardrobe... Gosh, in a couple of months I've changed it so totally, (and very cheaply!), I've a lot of nice things in there!- Soon as it gets really cold I can start wearing this loverly soft pair of leather trousers I got off EBay -another bargan as they're pre-warn, but that does mean they're nicely warn in!- they're also I think probably going to be essential wear for me in Sweden, probably with leggings underneath, to keep warm!

Well... a very slow day here, just never seemed to wake up... but I've done a load of laundry, tidied the wardrobe, and a few other little tasks, so not entirely wasted... and now I think a bowl of this stew for  an early dinner is needed!

hope all are OK and keeping warm and dry, its turned cold here tonight as soon as the sun vanished earlier...

We're Lincolnshire,i love Cambridge & hate Norwich,never been to Manchester so i can't comment on there,we're not far from the coast but when we have a trip for a walk along the seafront we tend to go into Norfolk & we usually go after work when everybody else is coming home,i've been to Lowestoft several times,dad was a lorry driver & i spent a lot of time on days out with him during the school holidays, your tea sounds far more exciting than mine,Vince wanted fishcake & chips

Just had a phone call from one of my little people,we're going to see her in her first performance with the drama group she belongs to & have promised to take her to tea between performances "Aunty Carol where are we going for out tea tomorrow" "i don't know sweetheart,where would you like to go" "that sunshine place next to the theatre" "ok that's where we'll go then" "by the way,i love you" well what can you say to that

xx

Hi all,

glad Polly is getting better now.

Things are not so good here. Lucas has disappeared. I let him out for the first time yesterday. He was fine going in and out all day and evening. But was missing when I got up this morning, and no sign of him since. I hope he has found some shelter as the weather is wet and very windy.

still dodgy Internet. No contact from Openreach who are supposed to be calling me to make a second appointment to fix it.

im off to a way up meet for coffee and lunch tomorrow which will be nice though.

Oh Lynda, 

poor wee thing, I hope he gets home again very soon, and finds shelter overnight, it is chilly all of a sudden. 

Carol, your little one sounds cute, bless her.....and the cats are funny too.

Jakki, I too live in jeans or trousers. Think it's due to living in a very cold house when I was young, chilblains every winter, decided to keep my feet warm ever since! But I do like nice jumpers/shirts/pretty tops. So shoes are comfy too, as I spend so much time on my feet, it's warm socks under the trousers! 

Mark, think leather trousers are great, I had some from sister in law, so worn in too. But they fell apart! 

Hugs to you all xxx

Hi Lynda, hope Lucas returns safe really soon, I  know how worrying it is when they go missing.  Perhaps he has just lost his bearings, really hope so.  Hope everything else is going ok for you.  Hope you are enjoying time with your mum and dad.

Glad Polly is on the mend Carol, I read your tales of your little furry friends to Mick, puts a smile on his face and a knowing look.  Your little friend sounds absolutely delightful.

Hope the srew was nice Mark.

Hope you enjoy whatever you decide to do tomorrow Jakki, if the wind is in the right direction a bike ride would be good.

Glad you are doing ok Gillian.

Pleased you got your car sorted out Moomy, what a nice man.

Hope you are ok Christine.

We went to pictures yesterday with our neighbour, Mick went in his electric scooter, only ran me over twice, so he's getting better!!

Lots of love to all and hope you all have a good weekend xx