Well, I'm supposed to be going to the school for a "fun and informative Literacy and Maths evening" tonight. Sigh....This is the evening which kerry said was the only one she could fit in this week, so I may cry off and go to hers instead. No one's at home at the moment, so I'll call a bit later. It's so quiet at work, it's like the Carling Complaints desk! Still haven't heard from Rope and Patsy's still getting out of bed at stupid o'clock to go bassing. Still, that will stop when the storms come in October. We're off to the forest this weekend to do a spot of fungi hunting and we're going to stay over (camping) which will be nice and chilled

I've received my activity monitor from the MS team. I've got to wear it from tonight when I go to bed, to Sunday morning. They're going to look at it and go "bloody hell, no wonder she's fatigued" as I'm in the office on Friday and then we're off to the woods! Oh well. we'll see.

Anna's had a cold this week, but she's gone into school today, although she was pretty distressed about it. She's totally overwhelmed with it all, especially the homework and the fact that if you don't finish your classwork, you have to finish that as well as the homework. Poor thing. i really feel for her. I'm trying to help as much as possible, but it's beginning to become a tidal wave of work. She's definitely not enjoying it.
Sian's just come in from college and they went down the beach and did lots of running and jumping so she's exhausted too. Hopefully it will all settle down soon.
Hope to be seeing Mrs H, but it's tricky with all the stuff after school etc. I'm not getting a moment to myself at all. Saw Ran last night and that was nice. haven't heard a thing from Rope for several days. Hope he's ok...

Not just any old Fish

We had a lovely evening this Saturday 20th. Bev and Ags came round and pat did homemade mackerel pate with home made onion bread and watercress on the side. For the main, he did line caught local bass baked on a bed of wild mushrooms with stir fried vegetables and then for pud he did creme brulee with a plum coulis! It was bloody marvellous and I think Bev was very impressed! Ag's blood sugar level went up by about 16 after it though ( she's diabetic).

On sunday, we had a slow start, but not hungover at all, which was good. Sian went to the track and Anna went to the cinema in bournemouth, so me and Patsy went to Tapas plus and had lunch. Very lovely! As we'd drunk most of the wine on Saturday, there were a couple of glasses which I had and then bed by 9.30. What a lovely weekend!

Patsy's getting up at stupid o'clock in the morning at the moment to go bassing or mushrooming and it's making my body feel like I've been up a whole day. I'm up at 6.30am to get anna going for school and as I was working at home today, I was sorted by about 8.00. I've started doing the physio exercises and it makes me ache so much!
Nearly had Rannoch round last night, but by the time Patsy phoned him, he'd already eaten, so we had a huge chilli to ourselves and managed to get through 1 1/2 bottles of vino. I woke up with such a hangover this morning! Who'd have thought!
It's really quiet at work, which is lovely but also boring. Hence my return to the blog. I also looked at one of my big diaries this morning and it was for 2001 to 2006. it was amazing to find the first time I mentioned Rope (2001) and the first time I had an obvious MS attack (2002). We've certainly calmed down on the socialising though. how did I ever afford it??
Watched Witness last night and I'm not sure that I saw the end, but it's one of my fave films of the 80s. That was when Harrison Ford was a hottie!
We're having the cavity wall insulation put in tomorrow. hurrah! Need to get Patsy making space down the side though. Where is he?
S x

Well for the first time in my life I've decided not to go to a gig, so I've just sold my Nickelback tickets for Friday. It's no big thing but I'm not up for it and neither's Sian, so we're going shopping instead with my ill gotten gains. That will be some weekend in the future.

What's been happening since I last wrote? Well, I've seen the MS nurse and she's sorted out loads of appointments for me with OH, physio, fatigue management, so it's all good. I've also applied for a blue badge, so we'll see how that goes.

Both the girls are at college and school now. Anna's finding it a bit horrible and the homework! Well, it's appalling! Sian's at college doing sport Btec and she's enjoying it so far. It's a change from school and I think she's really going to like it.

Me and Pat are good. I've looked back at 3 years of these ramblings and my yahoo blog and it's been tumultuous to say the least. We're still here though and still having a good time generally. he's calmed down now that he doesn't have to work with Kev and he's doing his own thing with gardening, mushrooming and fishing, so he's good.

My friendship with Rope nearly came to a crescendo last Saturday as it was his birthday and we all piled round his. I got rather worse for wear and just wanted to hug him and touch him, but clearly that was not the sort of thing that a woman in a 25 year relationship should do really. I've talked to Kez about it and she says that if I can, to try to stay out of his way until he goes back to porch as it would cause a complete meltdown. I know this is true and I don't want to create anything bad at all. I can't believe that this has been going on now for at least 6 years!