Marygrace you’re welcome to a couple of stone!
Excellent! I need a bit to top up right boob and the rest for the skinny arms and face. Sadly though when I gain weight it goes straight on the tummy and I look more straight up and down than ever.
Funny how we all want what we don’t have…
Night campers, fires all lit, torches ready to ward off gremlins. Sleep well xx
BW, that’s really cruel, talking about gremlins being “arsey” - don’t you think Lif’s boys have had enough of the arsey gremlins, the poor boys won’t be able to sit down for a week and their poor legs will be having trouble standing, so they’re just going to have to lie down, I reckon.
I most certainly couldn’t have done it, so I think we need to organise a celebration for them. I don’t have a problem partying during the week, so how does Tuesday night grab you? More party tents needed.
And I’d like to share my lovely daughter’s fundraising activities with you. Just take a look at this, I’m so very proud of her: justgiving.com/EllieRichards. She only posted it this evening and already has several donations and loads of support from her schoolfriends. It’s also made it a much easier way for me to “come out” about the cancer. (Sorry norberte, still a Harriet Elizabeth… 
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Mary Grace, I have a couple of stone you’re welcome to as well, we’ll get the FeelGood fairy to make sure it goes on in all the right places! you’ll be well and truely plumped out!! ( I wonder if they’ll ever offer ER+ ladies Liposuction on the NHS)?
Alison, hope all the faries sent your way helped and you’re feeling a bit better this morning…
Choccie, Def up for party Tues evening! What a lovely daughter you have! (Mine organised an ‘old Bras’ collection from girls at her college, I just need to get them sent off the Haven now).
I have to go and show my face at work this morning in an effort to stave off half pay. Thought it was a good idea at the time, but not so sure now…
Thanks for comments about photo, I lunge from who gives a f**k about no hair to I hate it. It seems that this cancer goes out of it’s way to make you as unfemine as poss.
Party on ties? Count me in. I need a laugh, have fallen in some quicksand and am stuck. CM pass the bucket!
X
SCACO, this is not like you! You are not Samson, losing all your quicksand and gremlin defeating power with a hair cut!! I have thrown a Rapunzel-like rope to you, so hold on. After that we are off to the spa tent. Luckily the quicksand is actually rejuvenating spa mud, and after a relaxing wallow in the jacuzzi, you will be fine. Lunch afterwards perhaps? I advice the gourmet tent, rather than the pizza one…
Tracey xx
Is today the day that Choccie becomes a media star? xx
Mary Grace - a polecat is a wild ferret… is prob. the easiest way to describe it! Though ferrets are more domesticated polecats… They are greyish brown, often with black to end of guard hairs, and have a black ‘bandit’ mask… and they are ‘mustelids’, so you’re not too far out on the skunk thing, though polecats are nowhere near so large. When threatened, they do exactly the same thing - and the stink is not funny.
We used to keep ferrets, and I was only unlucky enough to be on receiving end of defence fart once… when I was clipping nails, and clipped one a bit too close… bloody good job I was in the garden doing it, is all I can say… and even then, it was clothes straight in the wash, and me straight in the shower!!! Nothing as terrible as tomato juice to wash in though, which I believe is the rememdy for skunk stink!!
But, come to think of it… when my nose is doing it’s most over-active stint post chemo, ferret pits are not far out… it’s that chemo smell coming through in the morning… and I haven’t dared sniff my PICC dressings, lol, just keep hiding them under clean tubigrip…
Sophie xxx
Sophie, I was wondering about the PICC dressings. Even keeping my head covered to catch the fallout, I found myself picking hairs out of the dressing and bits of tube this morning. I’ve been trying to wear things with fairly loose sleeves to avoid rubbing and pulling, and would have thought a tubigrip would be too tight, or do you use a large one? I still have a bruise around the insertion.
Cheryl
Use a big one - you don’t need it for compression purposes, just to keep everything tucked away. I bend the tube with the blue valve on around, and on top of a bit of gauze, so it doesn’t stick in to me, then pull the tubigrip up over the whole lot - sorted!!
Packing it out with gauze is the way to avoid putting pressure on bruised bits - it can be a bit of a two person job though, one to hold it all in place whilst the other tugs up the tubigrip!!!
Sophie xx
CM - what a fab thing for your daughter to do… xxxx
Fantastic Ellie…will put link on FB
Fantastic Ellie…have put link on FB
Sophie, you are a one-woman MINE of information! Can you give us the definition of a MerKIN versus a MerCAT now!!
Tracey
So today was indeed the day for my moment of fame. Haven’t listened to it myself yet, but it was on BBC Radio Surrey at around 10.30, and they’ll be using clips that she recorded in the salon.
Because they made today all about the hair, I whittered on about Little Princesses, but I did get the “I’m too young for screening and mine’s aggressive, so it’s really good that I found it myself because it could have been so much worse, so make sure you check yourselves”.
The radio lady kept asking “so how are you feeling?” - I have to say I have NO IDEA how I was feeling, and I still don’t know! But the haircut is lovely (if I knew how to post a picture I would) and actually looks much nicer than my long plait, but I would have liked to have the choice about losing my hair. 
Anyway, I’ll trot off and have a listen when I’ve finished reading BCC, and will probably cringe all the way through.
Lif, I listened to your media expertise and you sound lovely - and very sheepy!
I think we need another tent in the clearing for Lif and I, now that we’re famous. A celebrity tent, perhaps? With a separate section for all the paparazzi and I will insist on bowls of Smarties, but ONLY the orange ones!
Tracy, I’m falling over laughing here, just imagining a small animal comparing various false lady gardens in a Russian accent! I will NEVER be able to look at that ad again without laughing! (I think it was you who did it for me with the cup cakes too…)
CM - I had strange compare-the-merkin.com moment then too…lmao… however, I can safely state that a mer-kin is merely a somewhat ignored and cobwebby relative of a meerkat… the kind that only appears at christenings and funerals because someone well intending invited everyone in the phone book. You don’t need to speak to mer-kins. Unless heavily encrusted in real diamonds, in which case it might be worth your while…
Hope that’s cleared that up.
/wink
Sophie
Def. need a celebrity yurt… CM and Lif can stroll right on through and the rest of us will elbow past the security trolls by breezily explaining that we’re on the guest list…
SCACO, gonna put on my stern mummy voice now and say ‘GET THAT BEAUTIFUL HEAD OUT OF THE DISGUSTING BUCKET RIGHT NOW’.
Big hugs, from a fellow baldy
Sophie xxx
Ye gods…I am sitting here laughing so much everyone thinks I have lost the plot…comparethemerkin.com or comparethemeerkat.com…or even compare the market…but we won’t go there! …you know this site comments can be googled… and they will send the men in white coats!
Having a woolly business I forsee another business opportunity…she says wiping away the tears…