Hi - I have just been onto the alternative site - first time in about a year, and found a post last Feb from a bc lady who lives about 10 miles from me. Hit the jackpot as I don’t know anyone down here with bc, except my local hairdresser, who is sadly an ostrich, she got idc a year before me, then at her 5 yrly checkup this past year had another cancer in the same breast…which I can understand as her maternal grandma, mother and 3 sisters have all died of bc. She doesn’t even know what kind of bc she had and won’t talk about it, which I respect.
I responded to the Feb post yesterday, the local lady has replied today - perhaps she feels as isolated as I do, although she lives in a nearby small town and I live on the edge of nowhere - well, actually an old Fort on Plymouth Sound in Cornwall, with just a deer park at the rear - well it does have the National Camellia Collection too.
This is a beautiful, indeed unique place… we have our own private outside heated pool, tennis courts,harbour (for those brave enough to swim in it) and a non-stop kaleidoscope of naval and leisure traffic outside our window. I have done the McMillan Annual Coffee morning twice recently with a neighbour who lost her 31 yr old daughter to ovarian cancer, and have also done a coffee morning for Shelter Box with her as she is a Soroptomist…think now is the time to raise some funds for bcc!!! She is an expert qulter but can’t even manage to make a packet cake, but as an ex-owner of a private girls’ school can do all the organising, whilst I bake my socks off.
We have a private resident’s lounge I can use, and I am sure I can rustle up some help here from neighbours to help out.
Are any of you local ladies willing to come and support me? We normally do scones, clotted cream (well, it is Cornwall!) and preserves, and I usually make muffins as well, plus a table of home made cakes…I love cooking! We have
You will have a great welcome…and magical view!
Liz.