a bit over whelmed, fun at the club

With putting your head up and shouting is all well and good, but I have felt a bit overwhelmed by it all. I do not want to be one of those people who has cancer and says why me, why anyone , but doing things like going in the gazette is hard, it somehow makes it all real again and I know it is realm there is no escape, but it make  it realer (if that is a word). I. t I am ok , on ward and upward as they say.

 Friday was my usual swimming with Cathy and John and food shopping with Mo.Cycled 25 mikes with Phil on Saturday and a bit saddle sore, but cycling is getting  better. Sunday Sophie and I went to the sailing club to get volunteers etc. It was so funny listening to how many miles they are going to cycle, many were thinking the shorter route, but with the banter that went on, not sure what they will end up doing!!  Poor Henry has now entered the middle distance and has not been on a bike in years, although he is young. I also got people to be marshals which  was good.

I am in the local gazette

Wanting to raise awareness of the Bike Ride the sailing club are doing I phoned the gazette and chatted the poor man to death, hence I had my photo taken and an article written on me, this has bought a bag of mixed emotions, sometimes you forget the tumour is there, but when you do thing like this it all comes back,, but I want people to know about  the tumours and the support you can get. Someone has to raise their head and shout about it and I guess I am loud enough to do it !!!

Theatre, more cycling and Bertie tries agility.

On  Saturday we went to Watch   " The play that went wrong", it was very good , followed a meal out in Bath, very nice day out !!
Sunday we cycled 25 miles, not that fast, but we cycled it, best part of the ride was seeing Cathy  when we stopped at the shop in Oldbury for a coffee. Cathy is a brilliant swimmer and she will not mind me saying this , but is not so  natural on the bike so imagine my surprise when she stops at the shop for a coffee on her bike, so impressed. She is training for the 20 mile bike ride !!  It really made me smile... the rest of the ride was a little hilly and a bit slow.
Sophie did agility in the afternoon, a taster session, I think Bertie is a natural , he loved it..  A good day today.

THornbury Sailing Club Charity Bike Ride

This is a first for the club.
On Saturday  26th May, the club will be hosting the bike ride. Full details on the Thornbury Sailing Clubs website. This should be great fun, as well as the bike ride there will we a Tombola and face painting. All the money raised will go to Brain Tumour Support, which is the charity that have been really good to me, with out  Kate life would be so much harder.

As for me great bike ride today with Celia , about 18 miles and Lunch out with mum and dad at the Plough in Piling, they have agree for us to let people stop there for a break, very friendly pub...

Feeling a little lost at times but still living

While life is very good at the moment. Thursday I swam and then did a 4 mile bike ride down a long hill then back a though the village which is a slow and steady hill..  Friday I had a brilliant lunch with Anna and had our make done at Clinque. I treated myself to an eye shadow. Saturday Phil and I cycled 20 miles, I lead the way and some places did not come out where I thought they would !!.  But we do laugh and our thighs were not burning doing Up Sunday's Hill.  Sunday , Sophie is in training  for her walk, so off walking again, back up Sunday hill, this time on foot. Then a lovely afternoon pottering with Sophie.
If it wasn't for the sport I think I would go mad. I have always been a planner, but we this cancer  I find planning ahead hard,how I can hope to think I will be lucky enough to live 2 years plus.  I hate not being able to plan !!  I think what has unsettled men that someone a knew  long time ago died of cancer (my age).

What a laugh at art

A coffee with Janet on Monday, then pottering in the trying to sort everything out and of course my daily walk with Bertie, Heather and Poppy. Then I walked again in the evening with Mum, Celia and Elaine.
Tuesday  morning , daily dog walk, then I sat on the bike trainer for 25 min to try and get fit.(boring) Art was brilliant fun, child portrait , mine ended up looking like a bag lady, Calvin who sits next to me found my portrait funny , we did laugh a lot that afternoon.
Wednesday my usual swim and chat with Cathy which I always enjoy, even better now that I am keeping up with her !! I am trying to get inspiration with cooking, so I did some cheese scones , fairy cakes and cereal bars.  I then went for an hours dog walk with Heather.
I am trying so hard to stay positive at the moment, at times it is hard, other times it feels easy !!

Swimming, walking the dog and more cycling.

Sophie after her training walk

Friday I went swimming at Bradley Stoke pool, it was lovely. John swam with me and we took the bike in the car so I could cycle home. I got on the bike then cycled in the wrong direction and got lost, then I realised I did not have a key to get in, so having got my bearing, I cycled to  where John works and picked up the key and cycled home through the lanes, it was good in the end.
Saturday was spent doing housework and giving the dogs a cut. Sally and Jack were home so we had a takeaway in the evening. I am trying to cut out sugar so this was a treat.
Sunday Phil, John and I went for a bike ride. 20 miles today and it felt good. Sally went on her own, lets just say she is super fit!!. Mum and Sophie went on a training walk , getting ready for a 10 mile walk in Blenheim. In the afternoon we pottered, then mum cook a fantastic roast, she does the best gravy !!!

Training for the bike a walk

Well I am officially in training for my 45 mile bike ride with Phil and John . I am also in training to do a 10 mile walk with Sophie. Mum, Celia and Elaine are doing the 20 miles.  We are off to Blenheim  this year, so pleased that Sophie is going to be part of the team. The walk is a bit of a family affair this year, as I do class Elaine as part of the family.
This week I have been to art, natural colour painting, I know what natural colours are !!  Swimming with Cathy and off course a little bit of chatting too. I also had my hair cut , which I love !!