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Happy Birthday Jazz, hope the weather and your tummy are kind to you!

Griff, I remember when my mum had WG and was in hospital in London, consultants actually flew over from America to see her and read up on her case as it was very uncommon then. Mizzly sort of day, wish it would do one thing or the other!

Do you get a prize for having a set, Griff? At least you are missing the pathologist and hopefully will for a very very long time! Eve, if you have a large garden you could put up tents and charge them for glamping?😁

Have you ever tried the tanning booth, Griff? where they turn you round like a spit roast? Philip just came back from walking Candy and said he'd been round the field and was coming back down the jitty and met this group of late teen/early twenties standing near the end in clouds of very aromatic smoke. He said they were very chatty and complimented him on the fact his sunglasses matched his t shirt. I said never mind that, didn't you ask them where they got the stuff from?😏

I got some hydrocortisone cream Griff and it seems to have helped already. On the info they give you after you finish the rt they say do not put hot or cold compresses on the area (who would put hot ones on anyway?!), though it's very tempting! That's very good of your friend, Owl. I don't think Candy would appreciate sharing her home with another dog. She does like cats though and I thought about getting a kitten but it seems even common or garden moggies cost over 100, and the ones I've seen in rescues say not to be homed near a busy road. As we are on a bus route, they wouldn't even consider us.

Good news on the cancer front, Jazz! What's the phone calls about Griff? relating to you or your mum? Philip's head should be fine by this evening, he's luckier than a guy I used to work with years ago, his migraines could last for three days! My back is not so bad today, probably due to the number of painkillers I took last night, but the radiotherapy bit is burning big time. I'll nip to the chemists later and get some hydrocortisone 1% cream, according to the breast care nurses that should help a lot. I've got this bright red square on my chest where they put the protective frame on before the treatment..hope it fades or I'm going to get some odd looks in future!

Philip woke up with a migraine, so I've got the chance to get in here early for a change. So, where are you all? How dare you have a life? Lovely pics of the butterflies, Owl. We used to have three buddleia in the garden but they all died off.

Only brief glimpses of the sun today, more cloud and rain. When I used to throw out sunflower seeds for the birds, they obviously missed one as there is a solitary sunflower proudly growing in one of my large plant pots! We do seem to have parted company with our little furry friends, haven't seen hide nor whisker of one for a while. My back is killing me, not where it hurt before after the rowing, more in the area where one of my tumours has taken up residence. I don't know whether there's any point in getting it checked out, not really a lot they can do unless it breaks, in which case they can apparently put a rod in. Hoping it's muscular again, or caused by Anastrazole.

Well done for the housework Eve, and glad you scattered your dad's ashes as promised. Hope you find it easy to find a new home you will be happy in blackmagic, to start a new chapter of your life. Regarding the nun thing, my godmother (the one who ended up in occupied France during the war) was bunged into a boarding school run by nuns when she was only four. Nothing to do with her family being poor, quite the reverse, they were very well off but she was an unwelcome nuisance so far as her mother was concerned. Prue said she remembers wetting the bed and being made to sit in a bath of cold water for hours and that the nuns were generally spiteful and cruel. She was an immensely brave woman, but she used to shake if she was close to a nun. Amazing the evil that can be done in the name of God.

Night all!

Oh dear Griff...methinks a curfew for phone calls is in order! I remember seeing a programme talking about those crayfish. If you are going to remove them from their river I agree, kill the poor things don't just leave them. I feel sorry for wolves these days, hunted by men in helicopters in Canada..what chance to escape do they have? The oil spill off Mauritius is going to completely wipe out a large section of the marine life...if you could come back to earth in 100 years from now I honestly think that there would be nothing but humans, assuming we haven't all killed each other!

Lots of Philip's FB mates saying there was a terrific storm over Chesterfield...barely heard a thing here, just one rumble and that was it. Still ouchy when I move in certain directions but not so bad as when it first happened, so I think maybe I've somehow twanged a nerve. I'll take some more ibuprofen and hope it settles more without my kidneys having a strop!

Dylan used to be like that Griff, he'd have died of sunstroke rather than move away from us. Rosie and now Candy are much more sensible, they retreat to the shade. Glad you enjoyed your KFC Jazz. Well, I obviously shouldn't try to get fitter. I was using the rowing machine just now, not going mad, just a steady rhythm, and got the most awful pain shoot up the left side of my back. Now if I move my left shoulder at all it's agony all down that side. I'm praying I've pulled a muscle and not broken a bone. Before anyone says well you won't have done that, apparently it's very easy to do when you've got cancer that's metasized, one woman just tripped on a kerb didn't even fall over and broke her femur!

Morning Owl. Very muggy out there at the moment, poor Candy is panting like a bellows already. Just thought..would the younger generation even know what bellows are?

Jazz, as Candy's a rescue we don't have her exact age, but she's at least ten, as she was microchipped in 2010. She may not have been a pup when it was done, of course. We think she's older than that, as her hearing and eyesight aren't as good as they were. Been boiling here and meant to be hotter tomorrow! I did get the lawns mown but I was shattered for about an hour afterwards. My daughter very kindly posted a photo from a taverna overlooking the fabulous beach...you can go off some people!

Hopefully it's just a fatty lump, we'll see. Our vet has a "leave dog with someone at the door" rule at the moment, and Candy is petrified of the vet at the best of times. I'll have to plead with them to let Philip go in with her. It's a week since my last rt and the blasted thing is burning and stinging really badly...of course it is! It's going to be 27 today! I won't be on here for the rest of the day, Philip's shift is 9.30 till 6 so he'll be using the PC, hope you all have a lovely day.

Philip found a little lump on Candy's tummy, near a nipple. About pea sized. We'll give it a couple of weeks to see if there is any change. in the hope it's a bite or sting or something. It would be just to unfair for her to have a mammary tumour.

I'm not planning for Christmas until a few weeks before the event, just in case. I only really do it for the children, we don't celebrate Christmas as the birth of Christ for the simple reason that we aren't Christians, I just like the pretty lights! My husband proved how much he loved me earlier, we were eating our scrambled egg and bacon when my latest radiotherapy area started to burn and itch, he put down his knife and fork and came over to blow on the offending place for me to cool it down! Greater love has no man..... He bought a rowing machine a few days ago (getting alarmed by his tummy expanding!) so we are both using it. Candy is rather bewildered by it, she sits watching whoever is on it going backwards and forwards a bit like watching a tennis match!

It's 26 upstairs here...fan on I think. Eve, that was right at the start of the lockdown, when no one was supposed to be going anywhere apart from a short walk for exercise. Mosques, churches etc were all closed at the time.

Quite agree Griff. I think I might have said before, a work mate of my son's was waiting for a bus to work during the lockdown (they are essential workers) and was asked by the police if he was on his way to the mosque, not allowed. Erm no, I'm Greek! It seems anyone with a different colour of skin, or a bigger nose or whatever is a target. I can't get over the number of idiots getting into trouble at the coast, either. Getting stuck in mud or cut off by the tide, why don't they check the tide tables. When we went up to Northumberland we went over to Lindisfarne, and checked the times very carefully so we wouldn't be either marooned or stuck halfway back down the causeway. I had a text from my daughter, arrived safely in Alonissos after what was apparently a pretty rough ferry crossing from Skiathos. Ironically, it's meant to be hotter here than there, but at least she's got the lovely warm sea.

Talking of see through tops Griff, I remember Philip telling me that back in the day when crocheted tops were the fashion, a girl where he worked was wearing one with clearly no bra underneath, and he had to discreetly tell her that one of her nipples was poking through the hole in the crochet! Feeling smug...the other day Philip managed to cut through the cable to the hedge trimmer, he tried to fix it by stripping the wires then taping them but it still didn't work. I took of the tape he'd put on and did it again and success. Ha!

I read the article about rats, Yantan and found it interesting that they say that rats reputation is really undeserved..or at least that how I interpreted it. I don't consider the squirrels a pest, they provide Candy with a good deal of exercise! That's good news Jazz, you can relax now, for a while at least. I think polyps can be nipped off if they are causing problems.

That's the last radiotherapy out of the way..CT scan at 2.30 and then no hospitals for ages, not until...the 14th. Not such ages, unfortunately. I watch Michael Portillo and others who do railway journeys in other countries, and the efficiency and cleanliness of their trains makes me ashamed of ours. You can bet when (if!) HS2 is ever completed, they'll be running late and dirty just like the trains are now.

That's scary, Owl. Our back garden is completely secure, we have a high hawthorn hedge on one side, six foot fencing with shrubs and willow in front on the other, and the end that backs onto field has a huge drainage ditch behind it and again, a six foot wall. Thing about Candy is she's very aloof with strangers, and if anyone comes to the door she barks her head off and sounds a lot bigger than she is. I don't think anyone would get near her without us knowing. My son is lucky, he lives a short drive from Worthing and can get down to the beach very quickly. Most of the day trippers carry on to Brighton, which he avoids like the plague. I was reading about visitors to Cornwall moaning when told to wear masks and saying they went there to get away from all that. Do they think Cornwall has some sort of magic antivirus screen?

Hope they can get to the bottom of it Owl (excuse the pun!). Seriously, I hope it's something easily sorted, it's not good to see them in discomfort. Does she tend to have trouble with her anal glands? Cant get over how selfish people are being, parking where it obviously isn't allowed. People in Wales got their cars and caravans towed, serves them right. A local bus service at Creswell has had to give up service one village as they just can't get through, due to people parking where they shouldn't to visit Cresswell Crags.