Babe In Toyland
50 something mother of 3. Tour guide in a brewery. Outdoorsy type. Hello!
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What did YOU do this weekend? in Hello.
Just briefly. Friday my sister should have been getting married. But she didn’t. She was amazing and brave and we spent the day treating ourselves to a lunch, massage and manicure at the hotel wh...
Rob has completely thrown himself headlong into his job. When he first started, he had a bit of a wibble and almost packed it in. But he stuck at it and has been working HARD. Staying beyond his ...
Rob is still getting better. He has stopped working in the hotel round the corner, as the owner has closed the restaurant until the tourist season starts. She has a good reason to, but I don’t re...
I want him home now. in Hello.
It was beginning to look so positive. He’s had his line out earlier than planned. For the first time since I came home I felt positive. I’ve scrubbed his bedroom and bought new bedding, getting e...
The ripple effect. in Hello.
From the moment of conception, we start to send out ripples. Tiny at first, we’ve arrived, we exist, hooray! Our parents are the first to be affected by these ripples, then as we grow, grandparen...
You misunderstand... in Hello.
In my last entry, I didn’t say I wasn’t going to the doctors. On the contrary, I said I was going to go to the doctors (very last sentence). But I thought I’d try to manage my symptoms on my own ...
Breadcrumbs and butterbeans in Hello.
I’ve managed to convince myself I’ve got some terrible stomach condition called GORD (or GERD for our American cousins, who don’t spell oesophagus properly. ;) ) I was diagnosed with gastritis in...
As you all know, I love the great outdoors. Living on the doorstep of the beautiful Lake District means I have lakes and mountains galore within a ten minute drive of my house. Since I graduated,...
It never gets easier in Hello.
I wrongly assumed that when Rob left this house to go and live in another, my life would become infinitely easier, a weight would be lifted. But no, it doesn’t and I can’t see him actually “leavi...
New Found Freedom in Hello.
Since I wrote my last entry, we’ve been on an epic roadtrip to Scotland and back. It might not seem epic to most people, but seeing as I’ve just passed my driving test, I decided to get all the s...
Driving test day. in Hello.
I went into it with no preconceptions whatsoever. I’d been nervous for like a week before, but on the morning of the test I woke up feeling strangely excited! I kept telling myself I already kne...
Occurring... in Hello.
The sitch with Rob: He’s got himself a live-in job at an outdoor adventure centre. It’s very basic, it sounds like he has to share a tent, but it’s only for four weeks and the wage is £175 a week...
Nothing on Brexit in here. in Hello.
I’m not going to write about my feelings on it, only to say I’m disappointed. I’ll leave it there. For the first time in months I’m actually typing my entry on a proper keyboard! So it won’t take...
Driving and dads in Hello.
I’m finally on the last stretch of my driving lessons, woo hoo! I feel more or less ready, just tiny little fine tuning bits. I have my manoeuvres perfected, I’m a lot more confident on roundabou...
See me do my exercises in Hello.
I’ve not been writing about my exercising as I’m one for throwing myself head long into a New Thing™ and getting bored and abandoning it as quick as I started. I’ve been dieting now for almost f...
Sleepy entry in Hello.
I haven’t been sleeping well this week. Every time Eleanor gets a cold, it settles on her chest and she ends up with a nasty cough. We’ve spoken to the doctor and he ruled out asthma and allergie...
Short entry in Hello.
I’m typing this on my phone because my Kindle is poorly and in the computer hospital. :( In a way I’m kind of glad because it’s far too much of a distraction. If he can’t fix it, I might wait a b...
Yesterday I had a mock driving test. I was a bit nervous before I got in the car, but only as nervous as I always am before a driving lesson. But then as soon as my instructor reminded me we were...
More job news in Hello.
It looks like the garden centre job isn’t going to work out after all. John did one shift on Monday and came home full of excited chatter about it. I was really happy, he seemed to love it. Then ...
Feeling sick in Hello.
I’ve gone back to the bag of nerves I was when I first started driving lessons. But this isn’t because I’m scared of driving anymore, it’s because we’re now on countdown to my test! It’s a month ...
On the up. in Hello.
This new job is a total breath of fresh air in this household. John is evidently really excited about starting! Working in a garden centre will work really well for him, he loves gardening and he...
Better news in Hello.
John got the job in the garden centre! He’s quite excited about it, he’s always liked gardening and garden centres, plus it will involve him being outside, customer facing and doing manual work, ...
I saw Katie today, the first time since her diagnosis. John and Katie’s uncle Dolan is visiting from Scotland, so their auntie Hazel thought it would be nice to go out for a meal together. Kati...
Busy times in Hello.
John’s step sister from Scotland has been here this week. Jessica was house sitting John’s parent’s house while they are on holiday, with her husband and two kids. On Monday night we went up, buy...
Yesterday Katie started her chemotherapy. The results of her scan came back on Monday, she’s at stage two of her cancer, which means that it’s in more than one place, but all on the same side of ...
