trice your day sounds lovely. It was my favourite day out with my girls, we have a great shallow river with a pond dipping jetty locally (I think I have mentioned it gigs the island in Crane Park nature reserve), the best fun to be had locally and it is free. The local alpha mums are so stuck in their cycle of endless extra curricular sport and music and summer camps that it used to be almost always empty, I took a perverse pleasure in taking their offspring there for some good simple fun, though sniffy looks when alpha mums handed, god forbid, wet wellies!! However be careful you may end up with a passionate biologist, it must be part of the reason why Big Copt is spending the summer looking at cells, it is certainly not genetic! However I built my own pond last summer and have countless frogs and I was thrilled to find a newt in their a couple of weeks ago. I also have sloe worms in my compost heap which is even more exciting 
The girls and I often bond watching the frogs in the pond at night, before going in to watch Bridget Jones again 
Kitkat i had at least two humdingers of periods before they stopped during chemo. I think it just sends everything haywire. I was 43, and, given maternal history is supposed to be the indicator, heading for menopause in late 50s. I had two friends whose periods were not stopped by chemo, one 33 and other 40, so it isn't certain. And I have friends who went into menopause in early 40s naturally in any case. I carried on having the odd one, every 18 months or so, on Tamoxifen. Betsy I didn't have any symptoms of menopause until I came off Tamoxifen, I think sometimes it helps, sometimes it makes them worse. However I am now sweaty Betty in bed, cool bedroom, cotton pjs and sheets, a special cooling mattress topper, and good goose down duvet, mine splits in two supposedly for summer but for me generally, feb to November!! I haven 't really had them in the day though, I think you are supposed to avoid coffee, which I do because I don't like it!
I think the chemo is like childbirth, somehow your brain screens out the worst of it, and makes you quite happy to get on with the next one
nj thought of you on way oop north, there was a convoy of camper vans, about 20 of them, painted all colours, in the slow lane 
sorry you didn't get answers from GP.
gigs glad to hearing you sound so much better. American friend has gone off to charm all waiters, porters etc into submission in the countryside so will pm you. Bit scared of little gigs approaching with mouth open though . Though possibly better than goon dogs nose thrust in crotch.
Day of cleaning and ironing here, feeling very hard done by that cleaner has selfishly gone on holiday