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I’m free!

Day one, post exam, and I finally have my life back.  I feel I passed, and I’m thrilled just to have my time to myself again.  Reflexology was a great way to relax after the pumped up adrenaline rush that … Continue reading

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Short Sharp end to the month

Have spent too long in front of the computer today synthesising information for exam revision. How I hate it. 20 days to go. Not, of course, that I’ll be spending all of them revising. Oh no. Some many hours I … Continue reading

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Late October gallimaufry

A day all to myself, that rarest of occasions to which I look forward with earnest, has fallen into my lap. Here I sit, driven indoors by the howling gale outside, and the unthinkable has happened: I’m not sure what … Continue reading

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The real me

My not-so-new look, finally revealed.

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Femara is kicking my butt

So, today is cd4.  Tomorrow I begin my third cycle with femara, taking those innocuous looking tablets from cd5 (Saturday 11th Oct) to cd9 (Wednesday 15th October).  The first two cycles, obviously, have been unsuccessful.  The Dr mentioned my cycle … Continue reading

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Comments

When I began this blog, it was during National Comment Leaving Month, and because I was commenting on an average of five blogs a day, I was getting about 7-10 comments on a lot of my own posts. That dropped … Continue reading

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Creation

Ah Blog world, I have missed you.  And now, here I am, seated at desk.  The familiar clack of keys under my fingers that have so recently grasped a pen and paper that they are unsure how to move smoothly, … Continue reading

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Daunting accumulation of reading material

Finding, once again, that I couldn’t help myself, I was drawn over to the fiction area of the booksale once I finished picking over the children’s section (twice).  And having found myself in the fiction section, I could not resist … Continue reading

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Hope is a Monster

I read a post by the Shifty Shadow just now that was about hope.  And what hope means.  And especially what hope means for people in my kind of woods. It struck a chord so deeply with me that I … Continue reading

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The Annual Save the Children Fund Book Sale at the University of Western Australia Undercroft

The opening night of the annual Save the Children Fund Book Sale at the University of Western Australia Undercroft is not for the fainthearted. Held in late winter, the threat of rain is feasible and the likelihood of being quite … Continue reading

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