Diary Update
2 weeks back in the UK and it does not feel as though we’ve been away! Peter is back on working in the garden – Warboys this time! He has widened the flower bed along the width of the garden at the back and after an expensive visit to the garden centre he’s planted the hoards of plants we bought. We could never get anything to grow there before as it was quite narrow and the ground was so dry as there is a tall conifer hedge which stopped the rain hitting the ground. Hopefully the plants will be OK there now and will flourish. I actually ventured out there last weekend and weeded the existing borders, which are looking so pretty at the moment with all the spring flowers, but that gave me another idea which has caused Peter even more work! What’s new!
My idea was to remove a row of paving slabs that abutted the wall of the house to create another flower bed and bring more color into the garden, easy, we thought, except that Peter has had to remove tons of rubble from beneath them. It’s done now though and tomorrow it’s off to the garden centre to buy more plants.
Peter has also drained all the oil out of the tank and sold it to various neighbors, that little cash haul at least paid for the plants! Now the tank has to be disposed of but the neighbors have offered to give him a hand to do that.
It’s not been all work though as last Tuesday we spent the day with Sally and family in Stevenage and while we were there we all went out for lunch, which was very nice. Then on Wednesday Pam and Bob took us out for lunch to the Ferry Boat Inn which is a lovely old pub dating back to 560AD and located right on the river. We had a lovely meal which was a belated anniversary celebration. Thanks Pam and Bob.
On Saturday morning we left Warboys to travel to Colchester to spend a couple of days with David, Alison and family, stopping to have yet another lunch out on the way. In the evening I went off to Wembley Arena with Ali, Tiff and James to see Torvill and Dean’s Dancing on Ice while Peter and David stayed behind to watch boy’s DVDs. Dancing on Ice was fantastic and brought back fond memories of when we went to Torvill and Dean’s celebratory show 25 years ago just after they had won gold for Bolero. Thank you David for giving me your ticket, even if you did have an ulterior motive as you didn’t want to go anyway! And thank you Ali for taking me, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Most of Sunday was spent with my changeover to the Apple Mac (see previous Blog entry – More Learning!). I don’t know what Peter was doing while all this was going on but he said he was happy just relaxing and in the evening we watched a very funny DVD! Then on Monday after a relaxing morning we went out for yet another lunch, this time at the Yew Tree in Horksley, another lovely meal.
We decided to leave as soon as we got back after lunch so that we were not too late getting home to Warboys. How silly that thought was! The first hour of the journey was fine but then we came to a complete standstill on the A14 and just sat without moving more than one car’s length at a time for the next 4 1/2 hours. This was due to a fatal accident and subsequent complete closure of the road. We had nowhere to go so just had to sit and wait patiently. Our major concern was that I had to take my chemo treatment at 8pm which must be taken with food. Thank God and David and Alison for the box of chocs they gave me and the bottle of water I always carry when travelling. A few choccies and a few slurps of water to take the 6 tablets and problem sorted! We eventually got home at 9.45pm when we should have been home by 5pm latest! We were both exhausted and after a cup of tea went straight to bed. Needless to say, yesterday we sloughed and became couch potatoes, sleeping and catching up on all the TV programs we had recorded while we were away!
Tomorrow I finish my 4th round of chemo and have a break for a week before the next session. I’m half way through the treatment now and next week I go to see my consultant when hopefully we will talk about my colostomy reversal which I hope will take place in September.
