Forgot to say does anyone know who “anonymous” is???
Cause they appear on lots of Latest Posts, if anyone can help I will be truly grateful.
Has anyone else noticed???
Who is ANONYMOUS???
xx
Katytc Thank you for the good wishes. Oh yes the knitting will come in useful in future when I get in a mess with mine(where do dropped stitches go?)
I’m on the smug bench at the moment for weight as the stress of learning I’ve got BC has caused me to lose a stone however I KNOW this will change and I will be at the salad bar too.
It was me once!! 
I noticed that ALL the latest posts were from anonymous last night so she/he must be very busy posting on several threads simultaneously! Clearly not recovering from Rads then? Lol.
I’m off for a quick (ha! who am I kidding? Can’t do anything quickly at the moment!) stroll up the lane to say “hello” to the bats and then I’ll have a wee while on the craft bench knitting a kitten. Yes you did read that right!
FoxyF - I know where my dropped stitches go - the kitten takes them!
JCJ Is that a secret coded message “wee” “kitten” etc ???
I fear ANONYMOUS maybe me YIKES or is it you? xx
JCJ where is this kitten? Why is he/she hiding all my dropped stitches? Does he/she not realise the torment that he/she (oh hec I’ll just put he) is causing? The feeling that the scarf you are knitting (all I am capable of) is going well and suddenly not 30 stitches but 29. What does this kitten get from this?
I am a cat lover and kittens are just gorgeous but this dropped stitch kitten is just evil.
Oh, I can’t believe it took me so long to find Benchland!
It’s exactly what I need. Though I am terribly dizzy already as I seem to be bench-hopping at an incredibly fast rate…
Hmm, the ‘grumpy’ bench for sure today, but also ‘can’t be ar… ehem bothered’ where I might get stuck for a while, ‘had enough of this’, ‘sad’ and ‘teary’ bench are strong contenders.
Is there a ‘I wonder how long I can keep it together’ bench? Feels like it should be somewhere between ‘sad’ and ‘crazy sobbing lady’.
Well, I’d love to take a spot in one of the ‘there,there…’ hammocks, especially if there is chocolate, or cheese at hand… mmm, yes…
Thanks x
Swinging in my hammock, munching cheese, I am starting to panic ever so slightly that I will be sent to the ‘it’s my fault’ bench… sigh…
Welcome Eve76 to Benchland, I think the “it’s my fault” is actually the “guilty” bench, you’ll find it easily because there is always a queue! Please strap a bungee cord and lifebelt on prior to throwing away your guilt. You will notice the warning signs when you get there, there is also a problem with flying marbles and a meat cleaver so duck often.
Still terribly intrigued by the “wee and kitten” scenario, therefore am on the “perplexed” bench.
Hurry up JCJ and spill the beans, perhaps anonymous is hovering around too…who is it??? xx
Changed tamoxifen brand and am back practising for the Sychronised Flushing, doing pretty well as they last for ages now, says me dripping into the lake or am I making my own lake? xx
Wee kitten is in fact a kitten that I am knitting. OH found this amazing book:
amazon.co.uk/Knit-Purl-Pets-Patterns-Personalities/dp/0715336673/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337686978&sr=1-1
in our local library and borrowed it for me because it had a cute rat in it. Yes, cute!! We used to keep pet rats and they were utterly adorable - like miniature pet dogs, just as intelligent and friendly. Yes, I know, I didn’t fancy the idea at first but it seemed preferable to ferrets (sorry Foxyferet! :|) which is what my son was pestering for. (A child in a school in which I worked at the time STANK because he kept ferrets - and, I suspect, rather poor personal hygiene habits, as befits your average 10yr old boy?!)
Anyway, I knitted the rat - see my profile pic! Then a cat in a basket - bizarrely, smaller than the rat! - and now I’m knitting a mischievous kitten - who gets his paws in the way and knocks stitches off my needles. See? Simples! But I don’t think he’s capable of stealing YOUR stitches Foxy! The library book had to go back but now I am adicted to knitting random pets and bestowing them on family, so I have purchased a copy! Norris the rat went in a Jiffy bag to Norfolk and Fudge the cat is in a jiffy bag ready to go to Milton Keynes. Can’t do that with real pets! I will ‘post’ a pic of kitten when complete (as in as my profile pic - not in the jiffy bag sense!!)
And thank you, ladies, for restoring my SOH. But please keep all sharp objects, especially the meat cleaver and any stray alligators, away from me as the combination of hormones, tiredness and discomfort is making me feel like killing someone, no-one in particular, just anyone who pi**es me off - or just breathes funny- or breathes at all! 
Please tell me that this feeling will pass - I really don’t want to go down the anit-d’s route. OH been on those for YEARS and can’t get off them.
Going to force myself to go in the garden to enjoy the sunshine before I have to head over to maternity to pick up yet another load of meds!
Keep the laughter coming. [insert deity or profanity of choice] knows we need to laugh…or cry…or both…or KILL SOMEONE…whoops! back again?! 
Chris x
Oh my goodness, please keep the meat cleavers away from JCJ, although there is one person in my neck of the woods that would be no loss…
Not your kitten then, so my stitches just disappear into the ether, one of lifes little mysteries like two socks go into the washing machine and only one comes out.
Ferrets in general = No Foxyferrets = COOL (except when having hot flushes.)
Saw onc. today and am on the thank f… heavens I don’t need to have chemo bench, just rads and tamoxifen.
Where’s the cake? I need cake! Strawberry cream cake!
Good news FOXYferret about no chemo. And not even the option - lucky you! But you’ll be on the guilty bench before long because you didn’t have to have it whilst others have to suffer it. Gets us all that way! I keep flitting there and I had to choose whether to have it or not!! 
I have advised OH about meat cleaver situation and he has agreed to stand well clear! He has been warned. I will not be held responsible! It is now his duty to duck - he can’t say he wasn’t fore-warned.
Seriously, I don’t feel quite so bad tonight so I’m off to enjoy some evening air. Oooh did someone mention strawberry cream cake? May be just a “small” slice before I go…
Great news FF, YAHOO!!! No cake for me, but huge slab of something wonderfully tasty coming your way!
JCJ it will pass, I was furious for a while then I visited the CSL bench, trying to avoid that bench altogether now, but may have a relapse. Still waiting for scan results. I’m a little more mellow now, hope I’m not jinxing everything by writing this, I can feel a bit of guilt coming on…oh dear xx
PS Anonymous keeps popping up all over the place.
I’ve just remanmed my rat Nonny - he’s a bit annoyed because he says he’s a rat NOT A-Nonny-mouse.
I’ll get my coat…
KatyC CSL?? Crude sign language? Can’t stand losing? Can’t s**ding remember - that one doesn’t quite work even if the sentiment is true!
Guess what! Today I was up and dressed - with a bra on!! - by 11am. And I didn’t even have an appointment to attend. Nobody has been murdered, or is likely to be, on these premises (possibly because OH sensibly gone out?!) things may just be looking up?
JCJ the problem deepens a knitted rat now in the equation, mmmmmmmmmm, I think you are just trying to bamboozle me with these details. I could swear anonymous was me at one time, then it was someone else??? I just don’t know any longer…
“Crazy Sobbing Lady” thats a bad bench to be on, someone else suggested “can’t stop laughing” when my body was adjusting to the tamoxifen it was def crazy sobbing lady bench for me which then led to the “totally cringy and embarrassing moments” bench. I was a star on that one.
Gladdened to hear your rage is subsiding, up and dressed what’s wrong with you??? xx
Not quite in need of the FF bench, perhaps a ‘Slightly Indignant’ one would be appropriate. I just said to my OH that it’s frustrating that everyone is telling me how well I look. Although, I appreciate that they mean well and it’s preferable to “Jeeeeez! You look like 7 shades of sh**!”, It makes me feel like they think I should get off my a**e and get back to work. Do they not know how TIRED I am??
OH’s response was a meaningful silence. Oh great! He thinks I’m milking it too! Perhaps I’ll bungee on over to the MOHAB bench?!
Is it the hormones? Must get a grip. Alligators are coming!
Hi JCJ
I too have been told I look well and to be fair, I do not look as bad as I feel, however if anyone has a conversation with me for longer than an hour, they soon realise that my brain is mush. I cannot think of words and lose track of what I am saying due to tiredness.
Yeoow - nearly got caught by an alligator, better start bungying rather than walking.
Think I need to sit on the guilty bench for a while, as I feel guilty when I am well enough to go out but not to work - thing is - I do not need my brain to go out but I do at work!
oh well where are the lifejackets? I may need one to keep from drowning in the lake. xx
Open your brollies, ladies! Just to warn you, ginormous guilt package on the way into the lake and expected to splash…
Much better! Now which way to the ff bench? In need of a bit of venting after today’s visit to the GP…
Ooops, just dodged an alligator. (Why are they here btw?)
JCJ, totally love your knitted pets! As I am not very skilled with knitting needles, I can only do scarves…
x