It's been a hectic few months, but as you can see I'm still standing. LOL!

Mum went back into hospital yesterday for another op on her bladder. They took a deeper biopsy to make sure that her cancer hadn't spread any further than what they thought. It was hard to get any news from the doctors, nobody was very forthcoming with any. This morning when the doctor came around, he asked mum how she was feeling and because she was feeling OK he said that she could be discharged, again without telling her anything. Mum was sick of not knowing, so asked to speak to him again.

He told her that the results of a CT scan she had last week was good, there was only slight scaring on her lungs, but nothing else nasty was showing up. GOOD RESULT!! She asked him about the procedure she had yesterday and he told her that it's got no worse, so we're also claiming that as a GOOD RESULT!! He did tell her that bladder cancer is a friend for life, which we already knew, but he also said that they would be looking after her. ANOTHER GOOD RESULT!! She will have to go back in 3 months for a cystoscopy, but we've decided that we just need to be positive and look forward to the future now.

I've had to learn to cook over the last few months. To the left is my attempt at a shepherds pie, which, even if I do say so myself, was very delicious. The whole lot was polished off by my dad and brother, well they had the most anyway. lol!

I can manage a roast dinner as well, well a sort of roast dinner, the cheaters version. Aunt Bessie is a god send! :-P



A few days after we had our big snow fall you could still see some along the mainland. It looked really beautiful, so I thought I'd take a photo.

College work has been a no go just lately, I've tried to make a start but it's been really difficult. So from tomorrow things have to change, head down and looking forward.........these assignments won't write themselves. LOL!