Black Friday Fun

Oh dear, no need to apologise for a rant on here! I certainly wouldn't take it personally and was horrified to hear police were called into supermarkets to calm riots.

But I'll hold up my hand for participating in the stupidity. I've got a television coming. At least I didn't descend to rioting for it! It was more just taking advantage of the moment.

I too wish we were still British rather than chopped up into little pieces and the threat of even more devolution within English regions.

I'm not sure we ought to blame anyone else but ourselves for our greed and not putting others first.

xx Annie

Hi Eileen, That must have been quite a shock to be told on Wednesday that you needed to start your second line Friday. What a whirlwind for you. That's a long session for chemo. Did you end up having the same as before? Carbo and Taxol?

Keeping my fingers crossed for you that you keep well and this lot has a good effect.

Loads of love xxx Annie

Oh Eileen sorry I did not know. Thinking of you, take care my lovely, you can do it!

Kaz x

Hi Eileen

It's great you're feeling well. My hat off to you for returning to work next week. I love your idea of the ruddy thing having to live under your terms! What a great attitude. I hope it continues to know who's boss for a long time to come.

I've just started a 3-month hospital break. I stopped Avastin a couple of weeks ago as it was no longer working and to avoid going straight into another treatment I'm having a little Christmas holiday on the recommendation of my hospital. My next scan and appointment is mid-February so I guess I'll be looking at starting my third line of chemo some time after that unless symptoms appear that I need to report back to the oncy. It seems very sixth form and grown-up to be contemplating a third line of chemo.

I'm looking forward to my chemo and hospital holiday. I have to plan for a more sedentary life and have things to do that I enjoy in the home so my daughter suggested I get wised up to television and all the interesting things I can watch if I find out how to use catch-up TV and know which channels to look out for. Becky, my daughter, says some have an integral camera so you can actually set up a Skype chat right from your sofa and even email! It would be such fun to be able to chat or mail people that way.

I'm going to the APPG for Ovarian Cancer next Tuesday at Westminster then have been invited for dinner afterwards at the House of Commons which is very exciting. I have quite a few meetings in London, with Macmillan, etc. linked to the Wales stuff which has had a lot of media coverage recently, and a meeting with Baroness Delyth Morgan to talk about the campaign for fair access to cancer treatments in Wales and a 98,700 signature petition recently handed in to 10 Downing Street. My body might be deteriorating but my mind is still in the right frame.

xxx Annie

That's the spirit Eileen. Kick its ass well and good. Ann xo

Love your attitude to what has happened x

hahahaha very good. I love your friend's take on things! Surely nobody is offended on a support site where we all get together for a hug, for friendship, for a laugh, a weep, a rant, and all the other things we need as we go along our journey.

The television isn't one of those new curved screens but their emergence is probably the reason why the flat screen Smart televisions are a huge bargain.

I do hanker after the old ways, the Brownie promise of serving others before ourselves, of deference, of people knowing their station in life .... until I think just how unfair that system was for many, and of the abuses it disguised.

I've been watching the television news tonight as I've become interested in Black Friday. What horrendous scenes in supermarkets.

It was much more civilised buying a new television online from the comfort of my bed this morning. xxxx Annie

hahaha quite right Daisies

I'm rubbish at online ordering. My daughter talked me through the television purchase this morning.

Whenever I've ordered groceries online I end up with miniscule amounts of items when I needed a generous amount, or huge quantities of others I rarely use. It's a nightmare. I feel I should persist and perfect the technique because it will be my shopping of the future. xx

I think it's fine to stay on your soapbox Annette. For some reason the video clips I saw today reminded me of the horrific video accounts recorded during the Holocaust in the gas chambers where desperate people, robbed of all sense of humanity, climbed over each other to try to escape the deadly gas.

You wouldn't expect it in a supermarket in our 21st century United Kingdom.

A sobering thought. xx Annie

Best holiday I've ever had was in Charlottesville on the furthest tip of Tobago as far from the airport as you can get. Beautiful white sandy beaches, azure skies, turquoise water and a rainforest as a backdrop with flocks of parrots flying overhead. Not a sunbed in sight. I hope it hasn't changed. xxx

You've reminded me Trish that Dublin is on my bucket lists. I'll have to seek your advice as to the bests time to visit the city. I think I'd like to avoid Black Fridays or Pink Wednesdays and whatever else there is. Just nice to have a quiet meander. xx