Hi
very best of luck to you SCACO in the land of NED, thank you for the woods and we’ll look after them for you. M
Good luck SCACO, Enjoy NED land, I’ve been there since finishing rads in June all bar the odd bone scan scare and its OK. I’d go so far as to say it isn’t a “new normal” I have found but the old normal, with a greater appreciation of the joys of the simple things in life. These woods are a godsend and kept me sane. Love and laughter to all who pass through this way. We have beaten a path for you and there is light and love waiting for you in the clearings that lie beyond xxx
Lovely to hear you are now in the land of NED SCACO, I have recently joined you there although I am stil a little way up Herceptin Hill (with quite a way to go yet) and am yet to get to Tamoxifen Towers. I managed to bypass the Rads Rushes which I think is good but it depends which day you ask me!
Mary grace it is so lovely to hear that you have found a better old normal, I wish both you and SCACO the very best, please do pop into the woods now and again to let us all know how you are getting on
xx
Well done SCACO , the land of NED which we all aspire to live in, good luck for the future.
Its right and proper that the person who started the DDW has reached the other side with hopefully many others to follow her tracks.
It seems quiet to those who have been here for a while , new campers joining in , the early residents moving on, but always a place for some fun and also hand holding . Keep the camp fires burning, the drinks in the JM flowing and many many helpful fairies to help those who need them.
Hi scaco
I’m sorry for me that you will be gone before I become a fully fledged woodie but so pleased that you are through to the other side and wish you all the very best for your long life.
Your legacy on here will of course always be the DDW and be appreciated by many many more woodies (unfortunately) in the years to come.
Just waiting for my start date and will be taking that first proper step into the DDW, but not too afraid as I know I will have lots of cyber hand holding, hugs and support here.
BW
Jean xx
Hi Scaco,
Well done you on getting through your own Woods and out the other side.
I have not been here for awhile either, just plodding through rads rushes at the mo and looking forward to my ‘new/old’ normal!
Good luck for everything in your future. This place, as I know you know, has been a haven for sooooo many of us from the early days and will I’m sure continue to be so for all those just starting their Woodland journeys.
Love and hugs to Scaco especially and to all currently walking through these amazing woods!
Wandyx
Good luck SCACO
I don’t post very often in the DDW but to read the posts every day.
So just wanted to say three cheers hip hip hooray for SCACO for starting this brilliant Woodland Wonder.
xxx Ducky
<sings> AND SO SAY ALL OF US! and so say all of us…</sings>
How are you doing Ducky? You and Dizzy never did play at the JM - or if you did, I missed it that night!
I’m popping in and out from NEDLAND - can’t quite say cheerio to the woods - they’ve been so amazing…
Jane
Bon voyage SCACO!
Good luck on your travels in the land of NED.
I think I’m almost there - just waiting for the results of a scan. I’m certainly back in the world of W.O.R.K. - will be full-time from next week - so don’t have as much time (or energy yet) to read or post.
I’m overlooking the woods in Tamoxifen Towers (where the central heating in some flats is a bit dodgy), but like Jane, I still enjoy popping in and out of the woods. So good to meet old friends - and make new ones.
I’m peeking in from W.O.R.K. at the moment, but will be there for happy hour in the JM tonight. Weren’t we going to see if we could fit NE and Derren Brown into a barrel together?
Dx
We’re never far away. Even though many of the early campers are mainly in the land beyond the woods, we still call in from time to time.
I still pop in ever since someone I met at a coffee get together seemed really relieved that I was OK and confessed she had been worried that silence meant something sinister. The original woodies -so far as I know - are all just getting on with their lives, getting swallowed back up into work and all of the reassuringly normal things that we did pre-bc.
If ever anyone needs us just holler and one of us will probably appear, particularly if one of Alto’s beautiful lemon drizzle cakes is on offer, or it is happy hour in the Jingling Merkin!! By the way, don’t forget the spa tent, the executive yurts, the lagoon and all the different catering outlets which have sprung up over time. And feel free to add anything else which your wildest flights of imagination can conjure up xxx
Thank you SCACO for such a wonderful idea, and all the pages that have been filled on this thread,the creativity of the woodies has been the most amazing part.
Love and Light xxMavis
Saco you produced a fantastic thread of laughter, honesty, security , and such an outlet for all our innermost thought and fears where we are able to voice everything in black humour that is understood by all haunting your footprint.
Second Taxing today so out of my Yew tree nes in Six weeks… Running towards NED but legs a bit wobbly. Will make it soon .
Tired tonight so off to light a candle, grab a nightcap to drink, and another to cover bald pate. Can I ask all Woodies camping tonight to protect me from the gremlins and find those elusive sleep fairies please.
So long but do return to check on us
Cackles xxx
Oooh, I haven’t made a lemon drizzle cake for at least a month - I feel one coming on… now there’s a plan for tomorrow afternoon! MG, I’ll throw some your way!
Cackles, I promise that it tastes pretty good even through the Tax mouth fuzz so you can take some back to your nest.
SCACO, NEDland is a wonderful place and the meadows where we frolic are indeed sunlit and truly beautiful.
We’re LIVING OUR LIVES, something some of us woodies haven’t really done for a long time. I received my DX on the day this thread began so wasn’t quite in the frame of mind to joke about it then, although I did read it regularly before jumping in with both size sevens and pitching camp.
Now, if it wasn’t for Tamoxifen Towers and its erratic heating system we’d really be laughing, but that’s a small price to pay!
Jane xxx
Certainly a very dodgy thermostat in Tamoxifen Towers Jane. Mmmm lemon drizzle cake. Will have to look out the recipe, not sure virtual is going to be enough after tasting the real thing xx
Don’t come on much now either although I read it almost every day. Think I don;t have much to add nowbut I used to love reading posts from people who were through to the other side- which is where hopefully I am now.
Great to hear from Jane, Mary Grace and Scaco who were among the people who kept me going .
Finished chemo and Rads end of June and have just come home from 2 weeks in Orlando.Feeling great and back to normal really other than a very short hairdo which most people just think is a new hairdo lol.Oh and some residual weight gain which is slowly going thanks to Slimming World.(Have stopped baking again!)
Granny22 - I’m a granny as well and think I posted to you when u first came on.I’m sure you’ll do great with your treatment as well! Feel free to message me any time and you can have a loan of my bagpipes and kilt any time!Have to knit your own Merkin though!!!
Good luck to all of you - may your fairies be plenty and your gremlins non existant,
Margaretx x x x
Ooo Marym’s bagpipes are great at chasing the gremlins away I promise, they worked for me several times.
Morning ladies
I just wanted to say a huge and sincere thanks for welcoming me into the woods the other day…made my entry so much less daunting.
Have a great day all xxxx
Thanks for the loan of your bagpipes Marym, better get cracking on that Merkin so its ready when I need it and yes I remember you posting when I first came on.
All of us newbies really appreciate the help and support we get from those that have got to the other side of DDW.
God bless you all
Jean xxx
It’ll be fascinating to see what goes on in the woods with new visitors. It’s important to hang on to the fact that we are visitors, not permanent residents, cause sometimes it feels the woods are endless. SCACO can’t have guessed what would happen in her woods when she started - some threads just take off. If ever you want a good laugh, there’s a (now oldish) thread about BENCHLAND, which is so funny…
I have managed to lose (a little) weight despite the Letrazole, but the lemon drizzle cake sounds tempting… better have some in here rather than in my kitchen! So, Saturday night at the JM… What’s on offer? See you there (after Strictly of course!) Or maybe we should enter NE and PB for “Stricly in the Woods”…??? Any offers of partners? Jane
Morning Woodies . Thank you so much for showing a sleep fairy to my yew tree nest. Seven hours of natural sleep even on the rotten steroids…bliss.
Left the woods today to hunt for food. Making chutney, carrot cake and Scottish steak pie. Hoping it doesn’t taste like cornflour paste. Rotten Tax has stolen my taste buds. That means I am searching for them in the undergrowth along with the nhunt for my badger pelt with blonde ends.
See you in the JM tonight folk. Can’t hope for that fairey visiting two nights in a row and others might have more need of her. Mind you I wouldn’t mind a bagpipe lullaby.
Symptom and stress free day to all
Cackles x