5th May - Hello and Cyprus - Easter and Houses

Well I am finally back to blog land and thank you for all your good wishes. I have just read them and I was amazed to hear from so many of you and glad you are still around if not doing Kathi's challenge at the moment, hopefully we will see you during the year?

Well Cyprus came and we went away. it was not the best holiday we have ever had as you can imagine with my op and further treatment looming but it was warm, sunny, a good 'home' for the week, good food and made some new 'friends' too!  Here are a few photos for you all to see, so covering Easter and Houses for week 15/16 too!! N Cyprus being Turkish didn't celebrate Easter!

INSIDE OUR VILLA 

 Wiring for our villa's Cypriot style!

 Typical homes unfinished, we wonder if they will ever come back and finish them, there were so many like this everywhere!!

Us enjoying ourselves

 Our path to our villa from and to the restaurant, beautiful flowers

Peter's favourite apple pie and ice cream and below more pie and icecream in Kyrenia!

Breakfast outside every morning - wonderful!

Breakfast tables ready and filling

Lovely people we met

We wnet to lots of beaches for picnics during the day as we had a car the whole week

St Barnbas Church in N Cyprus, our sister church at home is called St Barnabas!

 Another lovely church we passed

My news

Well blogging friends March has been a rollercoaster month for me and Peter.

On 21st Feb I went for my routine mammogram which all women in UK are offered every 3 years from the age of 50 to70. I believe that they are lowering the age to start at 45 and after 70 you can ask for a mammogram but will not be routinely offered one. So aged 68 this was to be my last mammogram!

The letter arrived a week later asking me to got to Brighton Breast Assessment centre for another mammogram, so alarm bells began to ring! Another week went by for this appoinment so we are now in March. At this appointment I found theX ray had detected something in my left breast. So after an intensive mammogram of that breast I then had ultrasound and 4 biopsies all on the same day.

I then had to wait another 2 weeks for an appointment again at Brighton for the biopsy results.
The bioposy results are invasive cancer of a low grade in L breast and a lymph node which would not have been detected by breast examination as there are no visible lumps!

I have been referred now to my home town hospital for treatment and tomorrow I meet my chosen consultant surgeon and will know the date for surgery and after that there will probably be another meeting to discuss further treatment whether chemo, hormone therapy and /or radiotherapy.

We go away next Sun 13th April for a week to N Cyprus and then my life is on hold with no plans which I am finding difficult as I am a planner and like to be in control of my life LOL!! To be honest if another person says it will be good to get away I will scream!! Let's get  the op over and what ever treatment started and then over and then have a holiday!!

To say I feel OK would not be true! It has been a very difficult few weeks of waiting and then this news...especially as there is no lump and I don't feel ill!
Peter and I are dealing with it in our own ways which are very different!! I talk he doesn't but then again locally not many people know, just family, close friends and cyber friends as that is easy!!

Now you know why I have found getting my head round blogging difficult. I will not be mentioning this very often but will keep you all informed occasionally, would appreciate positive thoughts and prayers not for the cancer but my huge fear of hospitals and treatment. I have never been ill and in hospital except to have children, how lucky I have been in 68yrs! but I know I will feel poorly before I am better!!

Here I am with Peter on March 10th for his 79th birthday, the love of my life and best friend!

23rd March - Catch up Lights and Entrances!!

LIGHTS

REFECTION  taken when Viv and Roland where in Hastings for the 365 challenge!! Can you see us both?

Refection on the water on top of a swimming pool

The Sun

 Artificial lights

Christmas lights

NOW ENTRANCES for nthis week
All these taken from Archives

Fire Station in Bar Harbor Maine USA

 Key to entrance at Abu Simbal Egypt

 Entrance to hotel Hurgharda Egypt

 Entrance to a cruise ship

 Entrance to our accomodation in Brittany

 Our front door

23rd March - AWOL

Thank you for your concerns about be being missing (Absent With Out Leave!!!) sorry Kathi to abandon the Lucky 7 for last 21/2 weeks

I hope after Wednesday I can explain, sorry to be mysterious but would rather leave it like that!

Today I have too much time on my hands so thought I would do a catch up and also show you that my scrapping mojo has returned and I finished off several LO's last week.

 Lucky challenge on books   these were the last photos I took

Xanthe chose her favourite books at the moment which are Rhyming books and her fav being Incey Wincey Spider !!

I don't have any childhood books as I have passed them on but AA Milne and Christopher Robin I loved. Also Alice in wonderland.

Here are a few of our book shelves in our house there are more!!

Now the LO's. most of them are my monthly class ones that I must give Anita McDonald for the papers and sketch. I am not sure if I am repeating others shown last year unfinished with no journalling

TheseLO's are my ideas and not from class !!
Can you see Peter in a granson's onesie??

 This LO I have used the programme and ticket for the school production that Zachary was in as Squawk!

OK off to look at last week and the week before challenge now!!

4th March - Books Fact or Fiction

I am a fiction lady and never read fact books or autobiography books for pleasure.
Though I wonder if you call cookery books fact books? In that case I have plenty I dip in and out of but never read from cover to cover!!

These are the fact books you will find on my craft room shelf along with some gardening books and books on past history of  Hastings which are Peter's and yes he has read them!! Even scrapping books I have never read properly!!

3rd March - a new week's challenge...BOOKS.

Usually I use my kindle...I have so many books I have bought and not read yet!
Mon the book I am reading......Last week I went to the library to look for travel books for our next holiday, cheaper than buying them :) I tried so hard not to go and look for fiction books but ended up with this book. My eldest son introduced me to this author Linwood Barclay a couple of years ago. When I get a good crime book I cannot put it down!!

Here it is on my pillow to read tonight. I don't often read downstairs during the day, yet on holiday I read anywhere and anytime!!

2nd March - Cone

This has been a tough challnge week, so pleased today this week has finished!!

Lovely seeing Kathi and Col and family celebrating a daughter's birthday on FB :)

So cone for me has to be a tree or bush though if I wasn't so lazy today I could get a DGC game out with cone shapes to go round a board and take a shot!!.... do you remember when it was buttons LOL and plenty of cone shapes in chess, not a game I ever learn't. Lovely to see Zac and Peter play together as young as he is!

I did find quite a few cones shapes!!

1st March - Grid and H shape???

I finally found a grid shape yesterday and forgot to post, still puzzling over an H shape. Finding this week a more difficult challenge than I realised!!
Fri - G - This was an airvent in an old chateau in France

 This was a modern tower of the church in St Polin france on the same trip

and taken this photo of Xanthe today in a very large puddle off FB. She has spent weeks with me looking for puddles, today she found this with Mum!!

Now off to look for an H shape???????? OK found a sort of H shape - Scarborough Castle :)

and of course a place I have never been to in London, this was at Heathrow airport!!