Wednesday 3rd January 2018

Thought I was well overdue a blog post, so I am starting with wishing you all a very Happy New Year!

Thank you all for the emails. comments/ cards we all received over the Christmas period, so kind and much appreciated.

For those of you that don't live in the Parish/on the Island or have access to social media, I will start by saying we had a particularly busy, highly emotional ( well, me anyway... nothing new there then), Christmas!

Firstly we had the arrival of the "Mad Aunt", I use that phrase as a term of endearment, for all those who don't know me well and think I'm being disrespectful, ( which, theoretically I am.)

Her list of chores included, dog walking and gardening, baking macaroons, ironing, doing crosswords, cleaning the glass cupboard ( points scored over my sister with that one)  and generally getting in the way, ( some may say, 'being helpful', but as she does one job and creates three it's not always as productive as it might have been. Bless.

Into the mixing pot of the frenzy that is Christmas, our son and his fiance decided to bring their wedding forward, from this July to December 22nd- whoa.... surprise factor overload!

One of the reasons being they felt that while I'm fit and relatively healthy I would appreciate it more, (cue fresh tears!) . And so with three weeks to prepare they went ahead.

The Minister at St Martin's Chapel was amazing, as was the organist. The bride was beautiful, and the groom scrubbed up reasonably well too! We had a lovely simple, but very personal service, the chapel was decorated by two lovely ladies, and we had a small reception down in Rozel at the pub.
That room had been decorated by LLe S, and was incredible, my poor photography doesn't do it justice, but fortunately there was a 'proper photographer, plus MW who took pictures of Steph during the morning.

A very special thanks goes to the 'fire crew' two of whom collected Steph and her dad in the engine, and brought them to Chapel (luckily no 'shouts' on the way!) and took them to the pub!

By the time we got to Christmas day, it all felt a bit of an anticlimax! Even so our festivities continued through the week, and so lovely to be able to spend it all with family.

Not having chemo last week was a bonus, even though I had two hospital visits for a blood test. First one didn't work through the 'port', so they filled me with 'drain cleaner' (!) and I went back 24 hours later, where luckily it did work!

I have been back to hospital today, and despite all of the blood counts being on the low side, it was still deemed safe to go ahead with the chemo. Slight first attempt hiccup but soon sorted and everything went smoothly, whole process usually takes between 4-5 hours.

This pattern is usually followed by me coming home and sleeping/resting, I'm sure it's the anti-sickness that makes me so sleepy.

 A blowy dog walk!

 Christmas!!

Bex and I in our wedding attire!

I have been trying to upload wedding photos, but failing!!


Finally.... its now Thursday!!  Midnight!A few photos uploaded....

 ( The lovely Minister..

& Mr and Mrs Luce

Party room!