Wed AM. Go with Mum to City Hospital, Nottingham. This is the first of my monthly checkups. Turns out it could be the last but one too, as Dr Macmillan suggested that in future I could do 3-monthly checkups after next months visit.
3 weeks ago, I had a bone marrow biopsy, and the week before, CT scan. Today, get told how badly the disease had got into the marrow (50%), and shown images from the scan. Everyone's very pleased with the results..
One of my fellow inmates during my hospital stay, Ted, is there with his wife and daughter. We tend to have similar scedules for hospital trips.. He comments that his hair is growing on parts of his scalp that hadn't seen life for ages!
Sunday 24 May 2009
Week at Burghley?
On Sunday, there were a few thousand women walking/jogging round the deer park at Burghley House, Stamford. This was in aid of Race for Life, Cancer Research UK's breast cancer fund raising event.
Car entry was via the Bottle Gates at the far end of the park. Then, after parking up, you walked to the arena set up as a gathering point. Heart fm were somehow involved, and they had a brekkie DJ trying to get excitement going. Any such luck was dissolved quickly at the arrival of 'The Nivea Boys'. Four fitness freaks in tshirts with 'Nivea' on them prancing around wit pom-poms... Very Eurovision... Sadly laughable too.
Eventually, the girls set off. Havana and Rachel were running 5km, along with a few others. 10km runs and 5km walks were also available. Havana and Rachel did the 5km in 45 mins official timing, but who knows really how long they had to wait for their chance to cross the start line.
Post prandial picnic was partaken, followed by ambling round Burghley's Sculpture garden, and 'Garden of Delights', AKA garden with lots of fountains and sparkly bits. Kids got SOAKED!!!!
Out the front of the house, was setup a load of tents and Marquees ready for this weekends country game fair. Before then, they were also hosting BBC Antiques Roadshow on Thursday. The BBC hadn't set themselvesup yet..
Thursday came, and Mum and I head back to Burghley for aforementioned Antiques Roadshow.
The venue was the Rose Garden, a usually private area on one side of the House. Nice long queues to get seen. That was to get to the front reception area, then split off into relevant sections. Then another shorter queue.
2 rainshowers later, during which we got a free poncho, we got to the front. We weren't presenting items worthy of recording.. but did see a few segments being shot. In official literature handed out at the start of the queue, it was requested that we not ask the experts for autographs... Although I did see one guy brandish a signed Antiques Roadshow bag with a Fiona Bruce tag on it...
Car entry was via the Bottle Gates at the far end of the park. Then, after parking up, you walked to the arena set up as a gathering point. Heart fm were somehow involved, and they had a brekkie DJ trying to get excitement going. Any such luck was dissolved quickly at the arrival of 'The Nivea Boys'. Four fitness freaks in tshirts with 'Nivea' on them prancing around wit pom-poms... Very Eurovision... Sadly laughable too.
Eventually, the girls set off. Havana and Rachel were running 5km, along with a few others. 10km runs and 5km walks were also available. Havana and Rachel did the 5km in 45 mins official timing, but who knows really how long they had to wait for their chance to cross the start line.
Post prandial picnic was partaken, followed by ambling round Burghley's Sculpture garden, and 'Garden of Delights', AKA garden with lots of fountains and sparkly bits. Kids got SOAKED!!!!
Out the front of the house, was setup a load of tents and Marquees ready for this weekends country game fair. Before then, they were also hosting BBC Antiques Roadshow on Thursday. The BBC hadn't set themselvesup yet..
Thursday came, and Mum and I head back to Burghley for aforementioned Antiques Roadshow.
The venue was the Rose Garden, a usually private area on one side of the House. Nice long queues to get seen. That was to get to the front reception area, then split off into relevant sections. Then another shorter queue.
2 rainshowers later, during which we got a free poncho, we got to the front. We weren't presenting items worthy of recording.. but did see a few segments being shot. In official literature handed out at the start of the queue, it was requested that we not ask the experts for autographs... Although I did see one guy brandish a signed Antiques Roadshow bag with a Fiona Bruce tag on it...
Thursday 14 May 2009
bowel fluid hitting the revolving supporters..
Hmm, are you loving the current panic in Westminster over how they are defrauding constituents of thousands of pounds for such vitals as moat cleaning, chandeliers and horse shit.
I sure am!
Best radio clip so far must be Lembit Opik trying to defend a 2.5K tv for his London Shag pad, and having to 'make do' with a mere 700 quid budget one instead. Oh and the 40 quid claim to pay the courts for not paying his council tax.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kctks/Victoria_Derbyshire_13_05_2009/
The question has to be, why should a man whose USP is, if you look past the celebrity eye-cendy of varying qualities, a penchant to try to get HMG to cough up to proterct us against miscreant asteroids be after a 2.5k tv?
I sure am!
Best radio clip so far must be Lembit Opik trying to defend a 2.5K tv for his London Shag pad, and having to 'make do' with a mere 700 quid budget one instead. Oh and the 40 quid claim to pay the courts for not paying his council tax.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kctks/Victoria_Derbyshire_13_05_2009/
The question has to be, why should a man whose USP is, if you look past the celebrity eye-cendy of varying qualities, a penchant to try to get HMG to cough up to proterct us against miscreant asteroids be after a 2.5k tv?
Wednesday 6 May 2009
Thursday 30th April.
I returned to Cambridge for the second time in a week. Lovely place nowadays..
The reason for this quick return was to hear BBC Business Ed Robert Peston do a talk on his favourite episodes of Star Trek..Or as you could say, the UK Economy, as it 'boldly goes, where no economy has gone before..'
Quite worrying figures were posted in his presentation.. Basically debt both Private, Public and Corporate had reached 300%+ of UK GDP, and as such, couldn't continue at such a growth rate. Debt had ballooned since 2001, especially, and so sort of needed a correction at some point, its just that the correction was pretty fast acting, and widespread.
It would appear that most of the figures came from another piece he wrote at the turn of the year.
He did ridicule the thoughts of some from no doubt previous years of Union hacks, who wanted to be Hedge-fund managers when they grew up.. and asked if there were any in today's crop. Just the one...
He did plug his book, but didn't hang around to sign any, unlike Clare Short had years ago.
I returned to Cambridge for the second time in a week. Lovely place nowadays..
The reason for this quick return was to hear BBC Business Ed Robert Peston do a talk on his favourite episodes of Star Trek..Or as you could say, the UK Economy, as it 'boldly goes, where no economy has gone before..'
Quite worrying figures were posted in his presentation.. Basically debt both Private, Public and Corporate had reached 300%+ of UK GDP, and as such, couldn't continue at such a growth rate. Debt had ballooned since 2001, especially, and so sort of needed a correction at some point, its just that the correction was pretty fast acting, and widespread.
It would appear that most of the figures came from another piece he wrote at the turn of the year.
He did ridicule the thoughts of some from no doubt previous years of Union hacks, who wanted to be Hedge-fund managers when they grew up.. and asked if there were any in today's crop. Just the one...
He did plug his book, but didn't hang around to sign any, unlike Clare Short had years ago.
Skeggy is soooooo.... 'bracing'...
Went for a day out to the Great British Seaside (East Coast version) on Friday. The uber colony known as Skegness. The site of the first Butlins.
We went by train from Grantham, via Sleaford and Boston. When we got there, the horde of returning travellers was quite large. Apparently the 11.15 from Skeg was over subscribed, and later on the board was still suggesting that stations down the line advise people to choose a later train..
Considering it was still term time, there were quite a few kiddies around. Quite a few OAP version of quadbikes too. Walking towards the pier, we took the High St route. Not a normal looking High St.. all those tourist shops.. not really that many 'normal' shops at all.
We walked up to the Pier, and let the sand get in our shoes. Whatever wasn't brill about Skeg, the sand was, to quote the guy from Twin Peaks, was 'mighty fine'. Last time I did Skeg was 2 years back, and it was surprising then how high the sand had become against the sea defences even then. Only at the very end of the Pier can you now walk under it, 75% of it you'd need to be a 2 yr old to be able to fit, if that. I left Mum for a bit to take a 'comfort break' as them Yanks call it, and walked the length of the unercover part of the Pier. Pretty much deserted apart from uniformed folks spraying the glass on any one-armed bandit they could find. Shiny Shiny!
We walked up the left side of Skeggy, past Natureland, and the boating canal on that side, and back down to the mass carparks, boating lake and the pitch&putt. Past the Imperial and the Grand Hotels.. somehow the Grand Hotel, Skeggy didn't look much like its Brighton namesake...
I'd taken my camera to get some shots.. ended up with a shot of some kids setting off on a donkey ride..
We managed to fill an entire 4 hours in Skeggy.. Next time, we'll do Ingoldmels, and Butlins... *cough cough*
We went by train from Grantham, via Sleaford and Boston. When we got there, the horde of returning travellers was quite large. Apparently the 11.15 from Skeg was over subscribed, and later on the board was still suggesting that stations down the line advise people to choose a later train..
Considering it was still term time, there were quite a few kiddies around. Quite a few OAP version of quadbikes too. Walking towards the pier, we took the High St route. Not a normal looking High St.. all those tourist shops.. not really that many 'normal' shops at all.
We walked up to the Pier, and let the sand get in our shoes. Whatever wasn't brill about Skeg, the sand was, to quote the guy from Twin Peaks, was 'mighty fine'. Last time I did Skeg was 2 years back, and it was surprising then how high the sand had become against the sea defences even then. Only at the very end of the Pier can you now walk under it, 75% of it you'd need to be a 2 yr old to be able to fit, if that. I left Mum for a bit to take a 'comfort break' as them Yanks call it, and walked the length of the unercover part of the Pier. Pretty much deserted apart from uniformed folks spraying the glass on any one-armed bandit they could find. Shiny Shiny!
We walked up the left side of Skeggy, past Natureland, and the boating canal on that side, and back down to the mass carparks, boating lake and the pitch&putt. Past the Imperial and the Grand Hotels.. somehow the Grand Hotel, Skeggy didn't look much like its Brighton namesake...
I'd taken my camera to get some shots.. ended up with a shot of some kids setting off on a donkey ride..
We managed to fill an entire 4 hours in Skeggy.. Next time, we'll do Ingoldmels, and Butlins... *cough cough*
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