Breast Cancer Now Forum

If we meet up at the station we can decide. ... View more

Great Cassie you shouldn’t be far behind us! 😀 ... View more

Excellent Joan! I have booked my ticket and I will arrive at 10.28 so I will wait for you at the station! 😀 If we walk slowly you may catch us up Lovewine! We will make for the coffee shop at the castle near our lunch venue! Have a good Birthday when it comes Lovewine! 🎉 🎂 🍷 ... View more

Ladies I have made a 13.00 booking at our usual for July 9th hope this is ok? Hopefully we will all arrive in time for coffee! We are off to Scotland for 3 weeks in just over a week so hope the weather will improve. We are doing the North Coast 500 in the Motorhome! Hope everyone is well! X ... View more

Sorry to hear that you will be unable to join us Wildpurl. It’s difficult to find a date that suits all as we are all busy. Better luck next year! 😏 Oxford seems to be our preferred venue. Are we happy to book the same lunch venue for 1pm. Those of us that are there earlier can meet for coffee. I haven’t looked at trains yet.  Elsa was spayed yesterday and has jumped on and off a chair and just jumped on the garden furniture whilst my back was turned! 😬 Lovewine hope DIL is keeping well? 🤔 Cassie your newest addition must be growing! Joan hope you OH have still managed to avoid Covid! 🤔 Enjoy the warmer weather- good for gardening Wildpurl with everything bursting into life!  ... View more

Oh that’s great Wildpurl a full house!!! 😀 Possibly Oxford just waiting to check ok with Lovewine!   ... View more

Ladies I suggest we pencil July 9th for our meet up, hopefully Wildpurl we check in soon and be able to join us!  Is Oxford accessible for everyone? Lovewine I think you had a problem with the journey time due to the change of trains? Great pic of you both on a horse!  Joan I am sorry to hear about your frustrations with grandson. Schools and authorities always struggle to provide additional resources for individual pupils unless their cases are extremely challenging to the school. I know things have got far more difficult since I have retired. DD is an assistant head in a school in Newcastle with a very high pupil premium rate. She is responsible for managing resourcing for the many children needing support both medically and educationally. It usually has to be managed by support staff who are shared around the school. The class teachers have to manage the children’s needs- which can be anything from learning difficulties to bowel issues!🥴 Children have to have very challenging needs to get even a few house of individual funding! However the class teacher should work with your YD to provide ideas to help GS with his difficulties.  Hope your holiday went well Joan! We have just enjoyed a busy week with ES and family, GS and Elsa were best buddies by the end of the week! 😄 Have a good Easter break ladies the weather looks promising! 🤗 🐣 🍫 💐 ... View more

Oh he is gorgeous Cassie!🤩 ... View more

I give up one blank and one on its side!!!!! 🙈 Elsa 5.5 months!  ... View more

We will wait till we have heard from Joan and Wildpurl. Maybe we should have a reserve date Lovewine?  Just had a mad flurry cleaning the house ready for our family tomorrow! I am exhausted. Yesterday I had to marzipan and ice the Christmas cake that they had requested for Christmas. We plan to have a Christmas dinner on Sunday! The Christmas we haven’t been able to have for 2 years! I have managed to source a Turkey roast from Waitrose. I thought they may have some birds about being near Easter- but no! I was tempted to get a large chicken but that would not have been the same! 😏 Hopefully the weather will warm up soon! 🙄 ... View more

Hi ladies we are now both negative but still feel extremely weak! 😔 Should  we fix a date in July that suits us all before settling on the venue? I have sat 9th July clear any good with the rest of you? ... View more

Good morning ladies, Unfortunately DH and I both have covid! 🤧 🤒 😷 2 weeks ago we went to Newcastle to see DD and family. GS, aged 11 had been staying at his dad’s until Sunday afternoon. When he came back he clearly was unwell sniffing and sneezing. He has already had COVID once so we didn’t think much about it! DH sat on the sofa next to him for an hour playing a football game. Later that evening DD tested him and he was positive! We had the Motorhome parked on their drive so made a hasty exit! But alas it was too late! We went on to Whitley Bay for 3 further nights and DH stating coughing! He is quite susceptible to chesty coughs- he had bronchial pneumonia as a baby! We didn’t have any tests with us so it was Thursday when we got home before he could test and he was positive!  🙄 I began to feel unwell on the Friday but didn’t test positive until the Sunday, Mother’s Day!  DH is still positive so there is no point me wasting a test that we now have to pay £2 a time for! I still feel far from normal which is quite hard coping with the needs of a puppy!  I have taken her out for short walks and worn a mask! Cassie glad to here the new baby is doing well. Can EGS entertain him a bit in the day when he isn’t at school? Hope YB is recovering. Joan hopefully you have managed to escape covid? We have been so careful and had all our vaccinations! I guess without them we would have been much worse! Lovewine hope you have managed to escape the latest round of COVID. Do hope that DIL is keeping well and all is progressing well. Can’t believe it has been 8 years since our chemo journey! 😲 Are there any suggestions for a meet up location in July?    ... View more

Good Afternoon Ladies! Lovewine what lovely news about the baby I expect that you will all be glad when it is safely here! As you said it has been a few months since the last post and I have often wondered how you all were. I do hope we can find a suitable venue to all meet up this summer. 🤔 Glad to hear that your mum agreed to go out with you! Joan all our children and grandchildren have also had a form of Covid. DH and I have managed to escape, we refuse to give up our mask in shops and on public transport. Our ES, DIL and YGS from France are hoping to get to us in April.  DH and I were so depressed at Christmas time because we were by ourselves and we had to postpone our month in Spain, in the Motorhome, for the second year, that we acquired a Cockapoo puppy called Elsa! She is now 19 weeks and keeps us, especially me, busy!  She is very energetic! She needs 3 walks a day or a very long one! She house trained quite quickly and sleeps all night! 😅   We took her away for 2 nights in the motorhome and she ended up sleeping in the space between our beds! 🙄 She wasn’t going to stay in her camping crate. She was quite eager to walk into her crate at home on our return at bedtime thank goodness. I am not a good sleeper and to have a puppy licking my hair through the night, I came home shattered.  Cassie hope all is well with your family. Wildpurl I expect you are thriving being able to do your own thing? Joan we went to Stratford before Christmas and saw the new musical, The Magicians Elephant, it is by the director of Matilda! Your GCD would love it. As if the pandemic wasn’t bad enough now we have the ever intensifying situation in the Ukraine! Let’s hope that very soon a ceasefire can be negotiated! 🙏🏼   ... View more

Have a good day ladies! Lovewine I am glad you and your mum have family at this time! Congratulations Cassie I am sure the little lad will settle soon- challenging days when they are new born! 🙄 We had a zoom with all the family!  ... View more

Joan they can’t cross the boarder which states they can only travel into the UK with a compelling reason which is death of a close relative or one that it is in critical care! 😔 ... View more

Lovewine I am so sorry to hear your sad news! 😢 I remember your dad was very ill 7 years ago when mine was! It always feels much worse at Christmas when families are coming together! I am glad that your sons are able to help you care for your mum at this most difficult time. 💐   Yet another difficult Christmas for many as travel plans are or could be scuppered!  Fortunately YS and family were able with us for a weekend at the beginning of December and we are leaving Newcastle today after a long weekend with DD and family.  Sadly ES and family can’t travel from France so this is our second Christmas without them. They had paid for their ferry and the day two tests. I had everything ready at home I had been buying Christmas food and drinks in over the last few weeks! I had even made a Christmas cake at ES request! Fortunately something stopped me icing it so hopefully it will keep until we are able to see them next. The beds are ready made up, Christmas books for GS, a gingerbread house kit to make with him, the saddest thing I purchased Santa Stop here sign for the front garden. Fortunately it didn’t make the garden it waited in the hall. Something made me get DH to put it in the garage before we left for Newcastle on Friday as the travel situation was beginning to look grave.  We are returning today and it will be just the two of us for Christmas! 😔 Whatever you are all doing this Christmas ladies stay well and let’s hope next year will bring more settled times!  I ... View more

Joan snagging is faults in a new build property that the builder has to put right. Eg excessive cracking doors that won’t shut properly, dented splashback on cooker, dent in bath side panel etc! 😏 ... View more