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KittyAndTheFontanelles · 24/03/2013 01:45

over hear night owls Grin. Unless we are somewhere else Grin

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KittyAndTheFontanelles · 29/03/2013 18:16

Mini Oh my! I simply need a tiny places camera right nowGrin That is the coolest thing I've heard this year no backchatWink

Is this piece of kit required for work or merely a hobby? Hmm

themidwife exactly how many downstairs mixups have you peered into/up ? Professional estimate I mean? Ballpark? Confused

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Midwife99 · 29/03/2013 18:20

Luckily I'm only used to foraging for cervixes & babies heads & misplaced suppositories!! Grin

Minimammoth · 29/03/2013 18:30

Just to get the story straight. DH uses this to look into pipes, the plumbing variety, to find faults etc. I bought him one a bit ago called a sneakoscope. Thought it would be handy for looking into awkward places, like car engines. He found it useful, broke it, so this is a replacement. Many happy times can be had, peering under the sofa, into mole holes, beehives and the like. Have a look on iwantoneofthose.

Midwife99 · 29/03/2013 18:43

Don't worry mini we believe you Wink

MrsShrek3 · 29/03/2013 18:54

hmm. but what other small places have you checked out, just to make sure it works? Wink

SummerDad · 29/03/2013 20:10

Hi all :-)
The token male steps on the new thread scratching his head in confusion Grin

KittyAndTheFontanelles · 29/03/2013 20:20

Where've ya been dad?Wink

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Minimammoth · 29/03/2013 20:20

Sorry snakescope. Too much Harry Potter. Nevermind summerdad, it's been a long week. Nice to see you though.

SummerDad · 29/03/2013 21:01

I am away for work somewhere I had no internet connection, even now I an away though I an fortunate enough to be connected to you all through my phone, it has been a scorching week.

SummerDad · 29/03/2013 21:04

Hi midwife yes I do miss you all Wink

jynier · 29/03/2013 22:03

Update from Camberwick Green! Walked up to next village this avo; thoroughly enjoyed it! Birds were singing, sun was out, people riding their horses, saw a 7-m-o labrador being trained to be a guide dog (wonderful! We're not supposed to make any fuss of these darling puppies and she wanted to be very friendly!!!) Next village is very posh and on a hill; ordinary folks can't afford to live there ... people were playing tennis, little girl was riding her pony ...! Saw the most amazing sunset with thousands of geese and black-headed gulls overhead (all returning to the estuary) and found, after reading the paper, that our area was in the top 5 of best places to live.

Downside is that our local paper reported on the front page this week that we have 11 "dogging" websites in the district which have been publicised on the 'net.

Also, a Rottweiler is running loose outside; I'm scared to go out!

MrsShrek3 · 29/03/2013 23:31

SD had had a scorching week? not in the UK then Confused

picture postcard village sounds lovely, jynier apart from the dogs and dogging

jynier · 29/03/2013 23:40

MrsShrek - You're funny!

Won't be joining you guys during the night as the BEST PERSON IN THE WORLD is coming here tomorrow morning!!!

Don't usually indulge but am going to take a couple of sleeping tablets soon and will be setting three alarm clocks to make sure that I am up early, showered and dressed to await the arrival of the VIP!

cafe - hope that tomorrow is not too awful for you! Be strong and don't let them grind you down! x

jynier · 30/03/2013 00:04

Grrrr! Switched to a different IP recently; took effect 3 days ago. Have only just noticed, while I was setting alarms, that there were voicemail messages. Missed a message from my beloved older brother telling me that the date of our friend's funeral has changed! Seems that my ordinary answerphone does not kick in any more!

Another Grrrr!

KittyAndTheFontanelles · 30/03/2013 03:16

Certainly a doggie-heavy newsflash from Camberwick Green Grin

Hope you are sleeping well, jynier ready for your special visitor. Who the blazes is it? I'm so intriguedGrin

Littlekitty went on a swing for the first time today.. She's always resisted so far. Momentous occasion for me; she seemed nonplussed. Much more interested in watching the big girls and boys Grin

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BlueyDragon · 30/03/2013 03:57

cafe, my criminal law podcast would be too norty - I can only remember the gross out cases and the ones involving real idiots (that'll be crim in a nutshell then [bugrin]. Hope your exILs weren't too traumatic, they sound like a right 'mare; and grrrrr at your exP too, how dare he be such an arse? Did you dob him in to your exILs as you were booting them out the door having accidentally served them undercooked chicken and poorly reheated rice for lunch?

[buthanks] to jynier for her sad anniversary and mini for poorly minikat.

stars, you make me smile with your trolley craziness.

kitty, good bonnet skills. Hope the parcel post worked out for you and MrsShrek.

It's all good news here though - last chemo currently going in via my Borg port and that finishes later today. The onco took out the nastier of the two drugs because the side effects were getting too close to being permanent potentially, but I had a massive blast at the start so neither she nor I are bothered. I feel like the sun has come out and I'm a bit scared of the future, all at the same time, because I don't know how to handle the uncertainty of it coming back. But my (fortunately lovely) ILs are here, I've just bought myself a new bike as a post chemo pressie, DS is seemingly on the mend (chest and ear infection, poor baby boy) and I'm trying very hard to ignore the fact that my house has a massive water leak that means we are going through about 10 litres an hour more than we should and it won't get fixed until at least Wednesday because the part's not in so we keep having to turn the water on and off. On the plus side, we are topping up the water butt nicely from the leak in anticipation of the extremely hot and glorious summer we are going to have .

Long blitherey post, sorry - I blame the drugs (whilst I still can).

BlueyDragon · 30/03/2013 03:58

That was meant to be Thanks. Why are there no bunny flowers, or at least a bunny with an egg?

Minimammoth · 30/03/2013 04:08

Hello Bluey, here's hoping you go from strength to strength when you get off the chemo. I am awake, I know not why. Apart from it being flippin' cold. So have had tea, toast and paracetamol. Trying to settle now.

jynier · 30/03/2013 04:38

Oh, Bluey! - You're going through so much! Best wishes!

My plan failed; didn't take the sleeping tablets.

Kitty - it's my little grandson! Light of my life! There is a park across the road and GS went on the zip wire on his own last week for the first time!

Mini - my son has one of those cameras; asked me if I wanted to see his earwax!

jynier · 30/03/2013 05:21

Listening to the dawn chorus again; it's wonderful! We have lots of wildlife in our garden - several young pheasants outside atm and we are occasionally visited by a little muntjak deer. He/she comes in for a rest and curls up under a bush to sleep. It's a bit like being in a Disney film!!! Just need birds flying around with ribbons in their beaks ... !

jynier · 30/03/2013 06:34

Am putting on such a front, pretending that all is well! It's not!

I truly appreciate everything around me (beautiful countryside; my DD2 and her children; good kind friends) but just can't come to terms with all the losses!

I want them all back:- my darling little bro, my treasured best friend, our beloved family friend who died last week (our mothers were 2 feisty Irish ladies and the best of friends).

I wish that I was still with my partner; love him so much and he doesn't give a toss about me!

Sorry, all, this is a completely self-indulgent rant! Am so looking forward to seeing my GS today - he makes me laugh!

KittyAndTheFontanelles · 30/03/2013 12:28

Hi bluey lovely to hear from you and thanks for the update. How exciting to be having your last. You are in my thoughts on this hopeful, spring, Easter Saturday. What a perfect time to end that phase; a time which signifies new life. [busmile] Thanks

I hope you don't think I'm glossing over your apprehension for the future, I can't imagine what that must be like. Sad

I'm looking forward to hearing about your huge nosh-up Grin

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Midwife99 · 30/03/2013 15:00

Congratulations Bluey! It must be great to finish the chemo!! I can imagine you must be nervous about what the future may bring but you sound really positive!!Thanks

MrsShrek3 · 30/03/2013 19:59

ditto what the others have said to bluey . It's quite scary this side of chemo, with no treatment plan and much of the "fuss" gone iyswim, but after a few weeks being terrified we have managed to create yet another new version of normal(ish). hope you can too. do NOT rush anything, you need a double cycle length to feel better if you're anything like DH. it is every bit as worrying so unless one of this lovely lot has a magic wand under the bed to disappear the worry gene, just be kind to yourself instead.

jynier · 31/03/2013 03:10

Hi Bluey, - How are you feeling now? (May be a silly question!) Sending best wishes, x

Cafe - Thinking of you; did you manage to dodge the dreaded out-laws? x

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