A big blue Smartie - oh, how I’d love one of those! (But I prefer the orange ones). No, katy, it’s not a smurf. I think the song would drive me even more loopy than I am already. Grumpy’s got it right. And I STILL love it. It’s got a bigger engine than my daughter’s car!
Hello Benchlanders - Haven’t sat down for ages, but needed to come and admire CM’s new plaything.
Is it British or Japanese?
Dx
Wow CM, just WOW! I am ashamed to admit I’ve never ridden a motorbike. Must put that on my to do list.
I hope it gives you a lot of fun.
Please give us all the details.
DJ, neither, keep guessing. If I get round to building a shed to keep it in it’ll be very shiny, but at the moment is tucked up under a cover. It’s not brand new (couldn’t have afforded one from new) but it’s new to me. Had the helmet and leathers etc from pre-BC times, but was rather “interesting” having my first ride in 3 years being an 80-mile jaunt to bring it home. But I’ve racked up several hundred more miles since then (last Friday!) and intend doing some more tomorrow and next week. Might even get on the thing and go and look at sheds – any excuse. Went to visit a former forum member last week - was on the bike for 6 hours in one day! Great fun!
And it’s a very turquoisey blue - here’s to you, Clare.
CM - it’s not a Harley Davidson is it? If it is my son will be very jealous as he’s always wanted one but a wife and three children have caused him to have a family saloon car. He lives in hope of a lottery win to realise his dream. Maybe one day.
Several hundred miles since last Friday…You go girl!!!
Hmm… not sure I can see you on a Harley, and you’re not boring so it can’t be a BMW (sorry for any offence caused to anyone). An Italian job? - a Motoguzzi or Ducatti?
In my youth I spent quite a long time on the back of bikes, but the only time I attempted to ride one ( a Triumph Tiger Cub) I ended up taking out a row of runner beans!
The Girls want to know if the Big Blue Machine has got a sidecar cos they want to go for a ride!!! They will wear their goggles, gauntlets and biker jackets with Hell’s Doggies in studs on the back…
No??? oh well they will have to make do with Grasmere Sports tomorrow.
grumpy (on the Slightly Knackered Bench)
Oooh CM a Big Blue Machine zooming round Benchland making a delightful roar as it passes.
Just a quick catch up after my days away. Six monthly check up all good - they did the mammo (two years from dx, standard for mx patients at this hospital) so results in 4-6 weeks. Swab tests came back clear - amazing that, I didn’t have the things it would have been impossible for me to have! Gynae referral… 6 - 8 weeks as NICE not applicable here and SIGN has no time scale for this 
Good job I’m not too worried about what they’ll find despite the wording of the NICE guidelines.
Hugs to everyone… off to enjpoy my last few days of freedom doing some local museums and things.
Grasmere Sports - as you can see Barley is on the Flipping Bored Bench…
CM - you are going much too fast round Benchland for us to see what you’ve got.
Please could you park for five minutes and post to relieve our curiosity.
Revcat - glad your check up all good and hope Gynae referral comes sooner rather than later. Enjoy your last days.
I have been puppy sitting today for daughters addition to family. Four hours of fun! Asleep in her bed she’s lovely, awake …and it’s if you take your eyes off her for one minute she’s either tiddled on the carpet (or worse) or eaten something in the garden she should not eat.(Slugs!). However she is adorable so I can forgive her anything.
Have been taking Tamoxifen for two weeks now and NO side effects. Am I lucky or is this too early to tell?
FF, you got it. And not a Sportster either. Loving it. VVRRROOOOOOOMMMM!!!
Excellent!
Vrooooooooom, Vroooooooooooom, helmut on, ready steady go…two problems solved, CM’s puzzle and the blue flash that I keep seeing in Benchland! Happy Days CM.
FF good news!!
RevCat excellent news, more appointments done and dusted. Fingers are still crossed!
Off to dentist to have crown fitted today, it’s been very sensitive since I’ve had temp covering, funny thing is I wasn’t having any bother prior to 
. xx
First time I’ve guessed right about anything. Enjoy CM! Afraid I don’t get the Sportster reference. Only know the Harley is THE bike from my son.
Sitting on the “catch up on T.V. bench” all the programmes that I’ve recorded over the last few months are now getting an airing, and some are being quickly deleted, why did I think they would be good?
Katy - good luck - I hate dentists with a passion (bad experiences as a child) and only visit them when I am in great pain. I know this is wrong and I should have regular check ups but I just can’t do it and as I said it’s only pain that gets me to a dentist.
Typical Bank Holiday here, pouring with rain. It will probably stop when I go back to work tomorrow!
Squatting in daughter’s flat in Norwich again. Just got back from 3 days camping on N. Norfolk coast, so on the kna**ered bench. Heading on home tomorrow.
Had interesting exerience of swimming in the sea in a thunderstorm on Sat - then got thoroughly soaked trying to get back to the car - didn’t even bother trying to change out of swimmers - what would have been the point in getting our clothes wet too, we were already wet?! My car seat is still slightly damp!
So in 3 weeks, and 2 holidays, I’ve only managed 1 swim in the sea. Gutted! I live probably the furthest it’s possible to live from the sea, in Uk, and won’t have chance again until next year.
FF - yes it probably is too early to be sure you are SE-free. I was until these last couple of weeks; now I have 3 or 4 flushes a day, but they are manageable, - so far - and they COULD be due to Zoladex or the combination of Tamoxifen & Zoladex!
CM - glad you’re enjoying your new toy - but could you zoom around a bit further from the K bench, please, as I’m in desparate need of some quiet, uninterrupted peace. (Campsite was full of noisy children!)
FF, everything went well at dentist and woke up this morning sensitivity free, yahooooooooo!! So enjoyed my cup of tea, hope you get on fine at work today.
JCJ, swimming in the sea in a thunderstorm wow! You really are taking the synchro flushing/swimming practice seriously!
YD is off tomorrow so manic trip into town today to get last things, thought we were doing that when we went in on Sun, oh dear a long day ahead! xx
Katy glad your geggies (teggies) are now settled down and temperature resistant again.
JCJ sea-bathing in a thunderstorm, bloomin’ ector, that deserves a platinum medal. 
FF may be a bit early for Tam SEs but hopefully you will be one of the lucky ones. For me flushes simply continued on from chemo so I’ve had two years of them now 
. Breast doctor insisited on giving me clonidine last week - just 50ug (u = micro, no mu sign on here!) at night. So far limited effect, but slightly less intense… I may have to step aside to offer my place in the team to someone who glows better (says she as wooosh a h-u-g-e flush overtakes her as she types)
Finally have a date for gynae appt - 17 Sept. Exactly two years from first chemo… how spooky is that? Trigger event was exactly two years from finding lump… cue spooky music.
Vroooooom what was that… ah CM on her mean machine!
Best hugs to all Benchies.
RevCat
Here’s a couple of µ µ’s for you. You have to be old like me to remember the old ascii keyboard codes! I still use a PC so my keyboard still has the numeric keypad at the side, not sure if it works on laptop.
Take care of them
Maggie
FF, a Sportster is a “little” Harley, but I’ve got a big one (phnar, phnar, ooer missus!) with an engine bigger than my daughter’s car! Took the thing out yesterday and it decided to die on me. Quick phonecall to significant other, who made a few suggestions. Now have assorted further purchases for the toy, to try to get it more reliable. As with a car, when you buy a second-hand one, you can expect to have to spend more money on it, but hey, I knew that when I bought it. (Got it working again with assistance so still love it.)
Just off to walk the pooch round the common on the edge of benchland, before it starts to rain, so if there’s anything loud and blue tearing round benchland it’s not me, and please call the police because someone’s nicked me bike!
Ladies - on the Weepy Wobbly Bench today re: corrective surgery. It’s a long story, and has been a battle to get the onc to agree to a nip and tuck, so I’ve been very ANGRY because I always believed things could be ‘put right’ after all my treatment and was only told different 12 months after surgery and r/t. Anger dumped in lake for alligators to eat, and now I just feel so so sad cos I believe I would have made a different decision about my treatment plan, and opted for the nip and tuck prior to r/t, hence no possibility of problems with wound healing etc. as could happen now. Seeing the CancerCare counsellor on Thurs and hoping she can help me to deal with the sadness - then I may be able to make a good decision about my lop-sided boobs.
Oh deary me - and I still feel guilty cos my BC has been fairly straightforward, NED, no chemo required, s/e from drugs going away etc. when other folk have a much rougher scenario to cope with.
I shall now make tea, then do some housework as therapy…
grumpy