One day to go - hurrah! Just getting everything sorted at home and finish packing and we shall be off. I still can't believe it will happen. I want to go now before anything can stop us! We will be quite out of touch when we are there which will be strange. Our mobiles don't get signal - too many hills and we won't have a TV or computer. It will be very peaceful. We will be doing lots of little walks(probably in the rain), lots of reading and knitting and drinking coffee! Maybe even a few scones and rum butter - yummy! I am going to try and be less strict about my diet for 6 days but still drink lots of fluid. Hopefully that will be OK especially as my blood count was so good last week. It will be SO lovely to be away and to be in my favourite place in all the world.

Recently I have been thinking a lot about the last 3 years and when will it stop defining who I am. It is very hard  to think beyond illness as it has so shaped my life. I feel that if I meet new people now I have to explain about what has happened because I am so different to the person I was. When will that stop being the case? When will I just get on with life? Will I ever? My body limits what I can do and that is hard to come to terms with. Having said that I do so much more now than a year ago - maybe that will keep increasing. mmmmmmm lots to think about. It would be better if I wasn't a thinker - then I would just get on with it!

So this is my last post for a week - when we meet again I will have had my holiday and will be suffering post holiday blues!!!!