Sunday 9 March 2014

A little fresh air before my visitors go home.

Sunday 9th March.
G & J arrived from their hotel around 10 am closely followed by Margaret who had come to visit too.
I did a hurried breakfast for the 3 of them.........and sat and watched and drooled as they polished it all off. Its a bugger when you can only take liquid food thro a peg tube, and you watch lovely bacon, eggs, sausage, mushrooms etc etc being eagerly devoured! :) never mind, my day will come.
We sat about chatting for a while then bro suggested a wander up the beach for some fresh air. Well i don't do 'wandering' so i drove us all up the shingle bank and then waited in the car whilst they went for a stroll. It was certainly a gorgeous day with only a gentle breeze to ruffle the incoming tide.
Looking East.
That group of people have a BBQ on the go, more nice smells to torture me!
Looking North.

The intrepid trio return.


Saturday 8 March 2014

a short visit to form some plans

Its been a while since my last blog. My treatment is ongoing- leaving me exhausted, sore, and generaly 'not well', but there are a great many people going thro far worse so enough said about me.
Graham and Jackie have driven down to see me for this weekend. Great to see them as always and its given me a much needed lift, so much so i've decided to update this blog.................


I drove up to the boat on Friday 14th February after my radio session. Not a bad journey but it certainly left me pretty exhausted. I stayed at G and J's friday night, then on Saturday Bro and i went to the boat to do some measuring up. During our time there i discovered a water leak from the fresh water pump so Graham had the hands and knees job of removing the pump for inspection. The leak seemed to be from the join in the pump body casing so we left it off ready to replace.
Sister Jenny came up G&J's in the evening for a nosh and a natter and some quality family time.
I returned home to Kent on Sunday, not looking forward to another week of chemo and radio.

Bro says he will make a start on the wardrobe frame over the next couple of weeks and as these pictures show he certainly has done. He's a top bro!

Bro making some progress

As can be seen we've kept the corner shelves to the left of the front doors and added a'lid'




The space between the frame and the shelves will be wardrobe with a shelf  halfway down and hanging space above.

What was one of the main support beams for the top bunk-------

----------gets topped off as a shelf.-----


-----Whilst to the left of the frame, the marked out area shows where there will be a chest of drawers/dressing table which at the moment is living in my bedroom in Kent. i'll take it up at some point in the future.
Thats it for now folks :)