My singing is pretty naff but I’m sure i could wave the stick thingy around with appropriate pomp. I think I’ll go straight on the hard stuff; cognac would be nice.
On second thoughts maybe I’ll just sit here and hum quietly - been out for a meal and i’m not sure i should have done the whole 3 courses jobby.
So glad I had a nap this afternoon, I would have hated to have missed the party tonight. Feeling hungry now - is there a curry house nearby that would deliver?
Fluffy beaver? Not yet, my dears, just getting fluff on head ;oP
I still look like an owl chick - it has no pigment so looks white. I’m an albino owl chick.
I used to be a werewolf but I’m alright nOOOOOOOWWWWWWW
Curries on their way to the JM - I ordered a big selection so there’s bound to be one for you
Curry is the about the only thing I can taste … so the hotter the better … will help with the constipation tomoz too! Ok … too much information … and what goes well with curry? Gin and tonic!!! x
I am having strongbow with my curry. Hope you ordered side dishes Ninja? I need nan bread and poppadoms!! And I want a spoonful of each curry with lots of rice!
And if we are starting on the old jokes then here is mine
Why are Pirates called Pirates??
Because they ARRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHH
nice idea Supertrooper … poppadoms with lime pickle!!!
Phew - a bit of a night!
Ninja - so sorry that you’ve had so much pain which has then knocked your treatment plans. I couldn’t have Tax either as I was allergic to it - the whole anaphylactic shock thing. I was originally on a trial that meant I needed to have Tax first so I hadn’t started treatment really when we found out. I ended up just having 6 FEC but the Honk showed me a long list of other chemos that were available. Have they mentioned using FEC again? Or it might’ve as the others say: that the last ones are not the important ones.
Xxx
I think the sleep fairies all fled with the noise we were making last night! Champagne goes well with curry, surprisingly! Re-read my post about the Proms… never BEEN to a last night - always been to proms and watched last night… still want to have a Last Night Party in the JM next weekend… stick waiving’s great as long as you only poke gremlins and don’t bash us!
Ninja - hope what the others have said makes sense… and that you are not in too much pain today…
Rachel - any news?
Have a great weekend, but tiptoe gently round the hangovers this morning… and the bleary eyes from lack of sleep…
Hello, i would love to join you all in the woods and hope you see me i am a very bright white Beaver with no need of light since i took the bic to my head yesterday. At least i dont need to worry about droping my torch. Sounds like a missed a good night last night but am sure there will be plenty more! Hope you all have a Magial weekend x
Ah, erm, sorry, reckon the sleep fairies camped at my place last night. They simply can’t resist the smell of Temazepam mixed with Rioja so I was innundated. (Sorry to gloat, but it was bliss.)
The clearing is A STATE! Just HOW MANY jugs of Pimms disappeared last night? I know I had at least seven, and the Bombay Sapphire bottles are a health hazard!
But the raucous partying seems to have kept the trolls, witches, demons and monsters away from most of us.
I have no motivation at all to get out of my pit. I’ve got lots of stuff to do, and could do with a shower after the chocolate spread and PB episode last night, but lazing around seems to be the order of the moment. Hope other heads are feeling ok.
Ah CM so THAT’s why PB was covered in chocolate sauce when I saw him staggering off into the woods moaning to himself last night. The poor bloke looked shattered, think he must have had a busy night.
Maybe we can stick candles in some of the bottles (remember when we really used to do that), or make them into some kind of sculpture as there are so many now. Or else we could just make NE clear them for us while we recline in our tents or in the patisserie yurt.
Morning to all campers, hope your SEs are small ones xx
Morning Campers,
Gutted that I seemed to have missed a raucous sesh in the JM recently, need to ditch the ear defenders and give my tent an airing and drag myself (literally - suffering from Tax toes and fingers) out of my pit - it’s been far too long and I’m becoming ‘bedshaped’.
Hoping to have an afternoon sesh today (it’s raining ooop north and I ain’t ironing) before asteroids kick off tomorrow - anyone up for a few more today, or have you drunken lot had enough already…
Well don’t mind if I do! In fact, I woke up this morning lying under a table in the JM so have just staggered back into a seat waiting for the bar to open and other campers to appear. I believe I am in the chair - quite literally - What are you having Beverlie? xx
PS: Ironing, what’s that? As a Northern lass myself (Sunderland originally) my grannies and aunties were horrified that I didn’t iron bedding or underwear (I ask you?!) and would be more so now if they saw the number of things that I deem fine after they dry on the line (looks OK to me, straight back in the cupboard…) xx
PPS: Morning Silverjill, sorry it took me so long to notice you, a bit bleary eyed today after the virtual festivities last night. I wondered what that light was that I could see.
If any of the strange woodie ways seem odd to you just ask any of us and make yourself at home. Pitch your tent in any spot you can see, in fact I will clean out my tent and you are welcome to it as I have found a sunny spot in the meadow just through the woods now that I have finished rads. That is my meadow in the avatar and when I’m not propping up the bar in here, I am busy setting up camp there for all of you when you follow the torches and path beaten through the woods by campers who have gone before. Other campers will be along to welcome you soon.
I hope you find as much support and friendship in these woods as I did trecking through them earlier in the year. Just for info - and in case you haven’t read the entire thread (recommended for a rainy afternoon sometime, oddly enough its hilarious in places and has some useful cake recipes and tips for getting through treatment amid the silliness)here are a few of the strange “woodism” which you may need to make any sense of what is going on. Others will add anything I have missed.
The JM is our local hostelry, the Jingling Merkin. We thought as more and more campers joined us that we should make the place more comfortable so set up everything from a patisserie yurt, catering outlets, spa tent and there is also a lagoon just on the other side of the clearing where we spend afternoons on those days when we just need to chillax.
A merkin, well what can I say, it appears that it isn’t just head hair that disappears. Some of the woodies complained at hair loss in the “lady garden” and apparently a merkin is a wig for the latter. Yes, really. There are even knitting patterns for them on the t’internet. We have looked! In fact I believe one of our original campers TSR, who reappeared briefly yesterday for our session, set up a craft tent with the contents of her daughters art box so that you can vajazzle with beads and sequins too if you like.
Various people have wandered into the woods over time. The main ones are Noel Edmonds (NE) who became a general target for abuse after his patronising attitude to someone with bc on his Deal or no Deal programme. Pierce Brosnen (PB) is also around somewhere, he turned up after Mamma Mia was on the TV one night. He is very popular among the single ladies and is excellent at rubbing in suncream, or aloe vera during rads, but he does tend to break into song sometimes and his voice is shocking. Be warned!
Alto is a key provider of cakes and recipes around here, not to mention being able to tell you exactly where some piece of information might be on the thread or how to find it. YOu will find that in real life there are a lot of technical authors, IT people, teachers and generally creative people amongst us.
SCACO started the thread originally when she was setting out on her own chemo “journey” (tee hee, she hates bc being describes as a journey almost as much as she hated being told that she had a beautifully shaped head and was “inspirational” by everyone including total strangers during her treatment.
I was more concerned at the visual, how many boobs does she have and which one do you reckon it is, looks which I received (still do) from male and female alike. I am thinking of getting a big sign saying “that one, just look and get it over with!” or else maybe just flashing the afflicted wonky boob at people might do instead.
As I am still in the JM from last night, what are you having Silverjill and does anyone else want a cocktail, a ginger beer to calm the stomach?
Please note, this is virtual alcohol, and all cakes contain only virtual calories so you can do what you want in the woods. All cellulite is left at the edge of the woods and we are all beautiful sylph-like creatures
xx
Hi Silverjill, I’m sorry you need to be here at all, but glad you found your way to a source of humour and support. I’m over on Arimidex Avenue these days, but I head for the Lagoon when a personal heatwave hits, and come back to sit in the JM garden from time to time, or join in the singsongs when they happen.
The woods can be quite pleasant at times when the sun is shining and things are going well, and there’s usually someone around to help when they become very dark, depressing and scary.
Cheryl
Just wanted to say Hi to all the woodies don’t expect you remember me!!!
I havn’t posted for a long time but have been on a thread for ladies who started chemo in August we are not quite as mad as you but were getting there. I do however read the posts on a daily basis just to see what you are all getting up to and find it all very entertaining keep on posting please.
Love and Hugs
Just like a Duck xxxxxx
I’m going to have a few large mo-hee-toes MG, followed by lashings of red wine today - the virtual drinking may persuade me to have a real few later on - going for a nice Italian tonight (meal not male, but could be persuaded if any nice eye candy serves us)… pour me another with plenty of ice Mr Barman please…
A nice Italian male with plenty of ice, hey, Beverlie? Tell me more! Or rather, don’t mind if I do…I do have a reputation to live down to in the woods.
Hello Just like a Duck, mind if I call you J LaD (our version of J Lo in the woods). Although I am off trying to reassemble my scattered life and scattered wits post surgery, rads and now that I’m only on hormone treatment, I do call into the BCC site every now and again although I only started posting again the other day. I think I have seen you on the other thread. Hope treatment is going well and that you are finding your virtual friends a source of support through these difficult times.
It may not seem possible at the time, but it does pass. I was fortunate not to need chemo (although actually it scared me not to have chemo to mop up and I would have said yes if they had given me the chance) and I know from the other woodies how horrible the SEs can be, but the months since dx (Jan 2011 in my case) which dragged through scanxiety and treatment, now seem to me to have gone by in a flash and I am thinking “where has my year gone?”
Not sure any other thread could be quite as mad as this one sometimes is, but if anything can lighten the gloom of treatment then all power to its elbow.
Wishing you all a relaxing and SE free weekend xx
Hello woodies. I haven’t visited for a while and I’m glad to see that the alcohol and good humour have not dried up. I have to visit the lagoon for a cool off fairly regularly now due to the heat in Tamoxifen Towers.
To all newcomers pitching their tents I must tell you there is no finer place than these woods to have a laugh/cry/rant etc. I hope the gremlins and monsters are keeping their distance and the good fairies are working hard to keep nasty SE’s away.
If anyone sees the hairy fairy can they remind her to visit me as I am still sporting a bald, but beautifully shaped head. I would like some hair before the cold weather sets in. sending lots of virtual hugs to you all. x