Busy week! Feeling much better although still struggling with a cough which is annoying. We have done some gardening - winter boxes to add colour to the garden. they look lovely. I have done lots of cooking including my first chicken pie - ever! And I have tidied - half a lounge but better than none and I have attacked some of my piles which have been accumulating everywhere!I have made a list of projects I have started with the plan to get some of them finished before I start new ones - mmmm not sure that will happen as I have lots of nice Christmas making plans.

I have a very sore arm from the flu jab yesterday. The nurse seemed to aim very high up on my arm close to my shoulder joint - not sure it is supposed to be so high up. Any way it was very sore when it went in and kept me awake in the night. At least my shoulder won't get flu!!!!

Yesterday my photobook arrived with pictures of my party - what a joy. I love looking at it as it brings flooding back the memories of the evening. I am so grateful to you all for making the evening so wonderful.

Half-term begins today - so strange not to be at work and looking forward to a week off. On Monday when I went to the cinema I felt SO naughty as if I was cheating. We were 2 of only 4 people in the cinema - very quiet and peaceful - apart from my coughing. Monday mornings are a very good time to go. We shall be going again- because we can!

Chloe's weekend in Cornwall was wonderful - she sailed with dolphins and rode 11.5 miles on her bike along the camel trail. Not such a good week for her as she has fallen off her bike after hitting a dog and now is poorly with a bug.

Josh is enjoying married life and his company have just been awarded a project for 'Stomp', doing all their anniversary advertising.

Well this blog has been rather rambling and disjointed.

BREAKING NEWS
I have just had a phone call from the new home dialysis nurse. She is coming to see me next week but just wanted me to know that we will probably be starting home dialysis BEFORE Christmas. Wow! I am so excited and scared all mixed up. It will be life changing to be able to do it at home. No more early morning trips to Reading and choosing when I do it to fit in with our lives. No more being freezing in the hospital and being able to have my own things around me. No more worrying about when it snows and we struggle to get to the hospital. But also the scariness of being responsible for all my own dialysis. Always having to get my needles in, always having to make the decisions about what I am doing - wow! Please pray that it all goes well and that all the practical stuff can be sorted - we need a sink putting in and my bedroom organised for dialysis. We will need a place to store all the stuff and a place to put all the stuff we now have in the room. So much to think about - goodness me.

I hope you all have great weekend plans. Ours will now be related to home dialysis!