BASKETTCASE

Nearly February!  I seem to be busier than ever.  We moved into the annexe bedroom last night.  Our fancy Spanish mattress was the wrong way up and very very hard.  The room was too warm for sleeping under a 12.5tog duvet.  I discovered the radiator was hot in spite of the fire being on a very low setting, so once I had turned the room thermostat down we settled.  It's lovely having the toilet a few steps away, although I crept around in the dark in case the light woke Dave.  I am sure we will get used to it very quickly.  We moved some of our clothes down today, and threw out lots of things for Kate's clothes sale.  Her pre-school collects jumble and charity shop type clothes or blankets and a big van comes periodically and takes away the lot.

We are very pleased with the new decor in the bedroom.  The walls are paler than we intended, but the woodwok is a beautiful restful shade of very light olive - gooseberry fool they call it.  I gave up on the stencilling because I couldn't justify spending anything between £65 and £90 on the stencil alone.  So I sketched some dog-roses from google images and painted them above the bed freehand.  Dave likes them so that's the i mportant thing, and in any case we can't see them when we are in bed, only when we walk into the room.

The colours are not very good, as the wall looks blue rather than hint of green, but at least the design is there.

Last Wednesday Dave and I went for our Christmas present Chinese Circus.  (Pressie from Mary-Ann and Dom).  We had a lovely time.  It was at the Kings Lynn Corn Exchange, and you can park right outside in the Tuesday market place, which is a big bonus for Mrs.We'll-Never-Park!  On another side of the square was Prezzo, where we had a lovely Italian meal with wine and a cup of tea to follow.  All very relaxed because we had left home at 5.0 for an 8.0 o'clock performance.  Then the show: mind-blowing, impossible bodily feats by acrobats and martial arts monks.  (Yes, really.  They had the permission of the abbott to appear!)  We had to use the satnav to find our way out of Kings Lynn, and arrived home just after 10.30.  A brilliant present thank you Mary-Ann and Dom.

It was cold today, but sunny.  I got fed up sorting out clothes with sunshine coming through the window, so I had an hour cutting down old dead stalks of last years plants and re-filling the brown bin which was only emptied this morning.  There's not much growth showing yet, but a few hyacinths poking through and I am sure there will be daffodils and crocuses showing soon.

I am really enjoying my respite from intervention.  It turns out that my oncologist's idea of the first week in Feb was the week beginning Feb 7th, and my appointment has come through for the end of that week, the 11th.  I see him for the result on the 16th and we take it from there.  This means I still have 2 1/2 weeks to do as I like!!  Hooray!  If I was symptomatic I would be getting agitated, but I feel almost normal so I am just taking things as they come.  I know I have to have more chemo whatever happens, so it looks as if it will be another summer feeling the cold and hiding from the sun!