Sorry Nicky, I thought it was you on that other thread. Can’t even blame chemo brain as I’ve been off it for weeks now. Take care, lotsa love, Dianne x x x
No probs - as I said - there are far too many of us on here than is good for anyone to deal with, chemo brain or not! However I will now see how you are all doing on there 
Nicky x
Thankyou for the welcome.
“Chemo-Brain” - LOL, I like that one!
I’ve still been blaming the blondness. Altho’ I can’t anymore cos it’s grown back grey & white or as I like to call it salt & pepper!
x
Vicky’s 34 and because we have no children, we both drive sports cars.
The blue badge stare is always the first thing but seeing as Vicky can only walk with crutches now it’s not quite as bad as it used to be.
We’re going to the British GP this weekend and for that Vicky will be in a wheelchair, the problems you have trying to get into a loo! I’ll quite happily push her to the front of the queue for the disabled toilets and see how many people have their blinkers on before they let a disabled person use the dedicated toilet. Last year someone even complained as “they’d been waiting quite some time” - not amused…
Hi all!
Dianne - I think you meant me on the ‘feeling low’ thread!
I was thinking that there are rather a lot of Nicky’s around too!
There are a few of us from Cheshire and somebody mentioned the ‘Cheshire set’ and it made us sound rather posh!
So perhaps I should be known as Nicola instead - less confusion :O)
Hope you are all feeling well, I am feeling very positive at the moment and very well, so hope the feeling can be transferred to all of you!
Nicola xxx
having a sleepless night and this thread has made me chuckle! I regularly hobble out the car to avoid the blue badge stare and was convinced the leaflet round the tablets was just me lol thanks guys for an early morning smile xx
Hi Nicola,
Yes, I did mean you, sorry about that, there were 2 Nicky’s with numbers after the name and I got the wrong one. (Div)
Hope you are well today, will see you on the other thread!
Claire, glad you had a chuckle at the blue badge bit, it’s true though, they make you feel like a criminal!!! Take care, hope you and everyone else are feeling good today.
Lotsa love, Dianne x x x
Hi bigfub
Have a great day at the GP and definitely use the loos your Vicky is entitled to. That must be the only advantage of being in a wheelchair - the fact she won’t have to use the other, overflowing loos! Keep those earplugs in - not for the loo but the cars
Nicky
Hi bigfub and Vicky…enjoy the day…Hamilton or Button to win…I hope!
Hi Bigfub and Vicky, Hope you have a wonderful day and enjoy the racing and the loos!
Take care everyone, lotsa love, Dianne x x x
For those of you living in hosepipe ban areas…blue badge holders are apparently exempt (because you can’t be expected to carry a watering can !)
So now you can have people glaring at you for watering your garden too:)
Nicola
Nicola - love that about the ‘hosepipe’ ban exemption for blue badge folk, not that I have a garden but suppose I could always take it down to mum and dad’s…Just told my OH and he said ‘Oh that means it will have to be you using the hosepipe for washing the car’. My car can stay dirty !!! xx
I was wondering about putting my blue badge in my front window, with a poster next to it…
just for the nosy neighbours:-
BLUE BADGE…HOSEPIPE BAN EXEMPT!!!
Hi all
Enjoying this thread and just catching up with it and can totally identify with it.
Love it Julie really made my chuckle - hospibe ban exempt excellent. I could easily send anyone water - chucking it down here in the North of Scotland. Send us some sun!!
Just can’t believe the chemo nurse one - wow that is so out of order.
Love to all Anne x
Chucking it down here in Cumbria too…and we have a party in a marquee tomorrow night!!! AND the toilets are a 50 yard dash!!! I will just have to dance a lot and sip my G & T’s rather than glugging them down!
I have the same problem with tablets - I throw the leaflets away now and I mark the ends with a big X so that I know which packet I am on as I always have a spare packet in reserve - how sad am I??? AND I have a little pill organiser thing, one for each day of the week it is brilliant, I would forget otherwise as I am so busy ‘living each day as if it were my last’…LOL.
Have a good weekend girls.
Sue x
Love the hose-pipe ban rule - that’s class. x
Hi Everyone, hope you’ve all had a good weekend. I also love the blue badge exemption. We’re not on a ban yet, but I can see it coming. It’s been so hot, the lawns are crispy and going brown. Not that I’m complaining about the heat, I’d be quite happy if it stayed like this forever.
Sue, hope you had a great time at your party, I had to laugh about you glugging down the g & t’s. That’s the sort of thing I do, I usually start off sipping and then I get into my stride and the glugging starts!! I also have spare packets of tablets in reserve, makes me feel secure!!! So I’m as sad as you.
Take care everyone, bye for now, lotsa love, Dianne x x x
GP was excellent, thank you all. We only managed the Saturday & Sunday in the end as following the radiotherapy on Thursday Vicky was unwell.
I can thoroughly recommend getting a RADAR key for disabled toilets. Only costs £3.50 and it’s yours to keep and it seems there are loos set up nationally with this access.
I may be mean but I did take great satisfaction in making sure the door was locked after Vicky had finished despite the glares from some people who tried to get in afterwards
Glad you had a great time at the GP, probably a very hot experience - very unlike the Silverstone I know! And the added smugness about the RADAR key has come over nicely in your posting Definitely worth keeping so I hope Vikki doesn’t have to wait around now if the only available loo for her needs this key.
Nicky x
Yes, a little too smug perhaps but after last year’s experience with no key and a queue of people wearing blinkers as they disappeared into the only disabled loo within easy reach…
Something worth bearing in mind and not well advertised is that Silverstone (certainly for the F1) will provide a free ticket for a carer if a ticket is purchased for anyone claiming DLA at the higher level. Makes an expensive weekend a lot cheaper