This week has gone a bit manic. WeightWatchers meeting, meeting up with a new friend from Ravelry, going to Cambridge to celebrate a colleague's birthday, going swimming with the kids, an orientation evening for I.'s ponytrekking week in Wales in May, o and a bit of work thrown in for good measure, and an almost 8 year old who let me know this morning that he needed a bit more in the way of TLC than they get in the course of a normal day (tears, tummy-ache). I decided that we'd give school a miss today and spend a bit of quality time together, and he seemed a lot happier by the end of the day.
Just two things I did want to say. First of all, I was very shocked and sad last Saturday when I found out that Elspeth Thompson died last week. I didn't know her personally but had been following her blog for a couple of years, specially because she and her husband had been doing up two disused railway carriages near the south coast. In one of her last posts, she wrote about her plans for the garden, which she'd started last summer, with no hint of the depression she was suffering. I'll miss her posts and her beautiful photographs.
And secondly, I just wanted to say thanks for all the lovely messages of support I've had in the last couple of months or so. They mean a lot to me. Let's hope that in two weeks' time, I can start to blog about more normal, everyday things.
Fingers crossed that all goes well.
ReplyDeleteHi Cybele, just found your blog and read through some of your heartfelt posts. Keep strong. My mum had very serious Bowel Cancer in 2003 - the disease had killed off all of her family, her mum, all but one of her cousins, an aunt and an uncle. However advances in technology and the fact that she bugged her doctor when he kept telling her it was "piles" meant that she is still here today - being a metaphorical pain in the but, and not a literal one. I have my fingers crossed for you. xxx
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