Wednesday 12th July Post Wimbledon/Hampton Court!

So here I am at the airport again, but this time in a much happier place mentally than previous airport 'trips'.
We have had an incredible three day adventure , starting with Hampton Court flower show, in which we had beautiful weather and in such an attractive setting too.

So much to take in and see, I can highly recommend it if you've never been before it's worth going, even if your knowledge of plants is as limited as mine !

Fortunate enough to stay with my big brother in Surrey meant that I got to see family as well, and doubly good news as in his recent genetic test he found out that he doesn't have the BRCA 2 gene, so that's him and my sister clear- a huge relief for their respective families, as well as themselves.

Heading into London on Monday to meet up briefly with my younger brother and his wife was an added bonus as they had been visiting the capital for the weekend . It's good to get some insulting banter and some giant hugs. :-)

We had decided to head over to wimbledon in the late afternoon to get some idea of 'the queue' and how it all worked. I'm glad we did. We did sit in the field and 'golf club' for nearly three hours and very nearly got it, but didn't!

However we thought we'd take a chance and got up at 5am yesterday to make sure we had a queue 'number' before 6 am, and it paid off. Centre court tickets no less, and with the rain coming in the afternoon, had I had the original court No.1 tickets we would have seen very little play.
As it was we saw three big matches on the centre court and the finishing off match from the others women's quarter finals.

All in all some fantastic tennis, with the British girl Johanna Konta winning her game in three sets, it was a very tense game to watch, but thrilling tennis.

We haven't managed to actually see my consultant at the Marsden, we were hoping to slot a quick visit in, but she did ring this morning for a telephone consultation, however it has been postponed until this afternoon as I was siting on a train heading to Gatwick I didn't really want the rest of the carriage to know my full medical history !

Those of you on face book will have been bored with all my slightly fuzzy unfocused shots of the various tennis players and beautiful gardens I have been posting over the last few days, but for those who are not, there will be more photographs in the next blog!!

I know , you can hardly contain your excitement ....

Ps. A very long meeting with Dr CM on Friday ( haematology ) lots of history discussed, bloods taken and a chest scan. Results next week hopefully .




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