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Happy Christmas

To all my family, friends, colleagues, readers and online peeps out there, Happy Christmas!

For me it has been a strange old year but now it is time to put everything aside and eat and drink too much and spend time with those people that make life what it is.

So have fun all and I hope Santa brings you what ever it was that has been on that list, not sure how he will get my new Yamaha R6 in the house as I have no chimney.
I guess I can settle for a good meal and a glass of iced Magners!

Christmas is a trying time

Christmas is over and the New Year is in full swing and if I were to be brutally honest, I can not wait to look forward and put everything behind me.

Last month Lucy’s mum; Jacqui was diagnosed with breast cancer which was a complete shock to the family. Needless to say the hospital and all groups have moved like lightening to get some support and start treatment. However it did put all festive plans on hold and made every one involved keep an open book whilst the first session of chemotherapy was issued on the Friday before Christmas.

The plan was for a Christmas travelling to Stamford and visiting family members, in stead we have a last minute Christmas at home with Jacqui. The close family all made the trip to Sudbury where the siblings all muscled in to produce the Christmas meal.
Despite the fact that Jacqui looks great and claims to be feeling well, you can tell that the poison is doing it’s job and eating away inside; that’s some nice treatment! So the rest of the holiday was spent either checking in on or staying close to the phone.

The second session of chemo was this last Friday, and there will be three hour infusions every two weeks for quite a while yet.
This whole experience has really put a few things into perspective. The whole pink for October thing the other month has never really meant as much as it does now. You always hear the stories and tales, and you feel bad for the people involved but you never really get a feel for the whole situation until it happens right on your own door.

All we can do is put this last year in the past and look forward to a new one. It will not be an easy one to start with but hopefully it will finish a whole lot better than it started.
Good luck Jacqui.

Seasons Greetings

Some might say that this is a bit late, well yes it is. The reason is quite simple; I just decided to spend a few days away from a keyboard and spend it with family and friends, it felt like the right thing to do.
None the less have a happy and safe holiday and make the most of the new year. Remember to drink way too much and gorge yourself on unhealthy foods.

Mid Week Roundup

Yeah ok so it’s not quite mid-week and infact it’s closer to the weekend than anything but that just about gives you the idea on what it has been like lately.

First off the site.
When Michael announced that r127 of K2 will only run on WordPress2.0 I started thinking, maybe I should upgrade, I mean WordPress2.0 is at release candidate stage, whats the worse that could happen. Well everything appears to work except for permalinks for UTW and FAlbum and for some reason the Live Archives won’t show in Firefox, IE, or Flock; works fine in Safari!

In other news…
Well it finally hit me the other day that it is indeed the festive season. I’m not the most Christmassy of people, I’m no scrooge but I just never really get all tinsled up. But the other day I sat there flicking through the channels and settled on re-runs of Home Alone, how can you not get in the Christmas mood with that film? So now I’m full swing into Christmas and looking forward to only 5 working days left.