Thursday, May 29, 2025


Can you tell from the quotes I'm getting through Doctor Who! There's huge amounts I've missed over the .. decades... 

Okay, catch up on the colonoscopy! Got my results today in a phone call from the hospital.. two of the polyps were Hyperplastic type, skin tag type, and the third an adanoma type, it was all okay, but these if left to grow possible can be very bad.  But it wasn't, so all good! 

I am still awaiting news of when I'm going to have the fourth and largest removed, under general anesthetic, as too big to do during a regular colonoscopy.

What's been happening! 

Went to town with the peanuts, as I call them, on Tuesday... It is so difficult not buying everything they look at!! Those eyes!! That longing gaze when they stare at something they want... Phew pulls on the heartstrings that's forsure!!

Went to a huge park on Monday morning, Attenborough park... Walked about eight miles.. stopped at Beeston Marina for some lunch, just a bacon roll and a coffee, another beautiful day... Up until last couple of days it really has been wall to wall sunshine bar maybe two days? Three max, since I came back from Spain in March... Off again Monday!! Whoop whoop.. can't wait... Packed and ready to go..

I want to look at all my photographs over the decades, stop pause and remember moments, why can't I?? Why does it hurt so much, why bring me to tears when I do... 

I want to enjoy them, the moments the remembering, the amazing time of my life... Why does remembering hurt so much...

M.

Things end, That's all

Everything ends, And it's always sad

But everything begins again too,

And that's always happy, Be happy

Doctor Who



Wednesday, May 21, 2025


I must have blogged this already? Below I mean, I wrote it in 2023.. I was in my aunt's house.. 

'Nothing here has changed... In her house..

It's a time warp I will forever remember.. and always wish I could step back into

Sorry I feel sad.. I am thinking if I leave it too long again.. there won't be a next time here.'

I always feel this loss when I leave her, and I've booked a visit to her again now... If I had a TARDIS I'd be over every day for a cup of tea..

Every single day.. No matter what.

Last night in a half sleep moment I knew Pippa had come into the bedroom, I could hear her paws and then the weight of her as she jumped onto my bed and moved up towards me .. then her cold nose and whiskers tickling my face as she checked my breathing... As she used to do! Then I started to wake more and said 'Pippa! And laughed and woke myself up completely.. then realized she wasn't there, and it was only .. what? A dream? A visit from my puppy love? Who knows, I believe the latter.. 

Went to my Lockup this morning, collected a few summer things, and buried my head in my clothes and material stuff there... Breathing in the smell of my old home, breathing in memories and feelings... And missings... I know its not a word, missings, but it's my word.. I'll have to save something and keep it in an airless bag, to open, rarely, to keep forever... With my missings... 

The reason for my lateness in posting the last post and why I said I was distracted, was because of worries.. and a silly accident, sort of thing.. actually..

The weekend after the London trip, the Saturday, two weeks ago now already..  I had to have a colonoscopy, I've just checked as I actually thought I had written this down, but it's not anywhere? I had sent of the poop test thingy we all get to check for bowel cancer, and within a couple of days of sending it, received a letter for an appointment phone call, followed swiftly by the colonoscopy.. they removed three polyps, and saw the Diverticular and a small area from an internal hemorrhoid, in the area of the Diverticular, which may have bleed causing the test to come back positive.

There was another polyp which needs to come out, but it couldn't be done then, too big and in an awkward area. So I have to have that delt with. I have a telephone appointment date, where I'll learn what and when. 

I'm in Spain what happens, and then a small window of opportunity before I'm off again to my aunts .. 

So apologies for being a bit out of my head, or out of my mind! Been a lot going on.. and bad sleep at night leading to being (even more) tired during the day! 

Oh the accident! So it's the Thursday before the colonoscopy on the Saturday, I've started the fibre-free diet, haven't had to do that before, rice or potatoes, chicken or white fish, no milk in drinks.. very limited, very hungry! 

Anyways!! So I'm walking downstairs and before I knew it I was flying! Only not very well, I used my right ankle to turn awkwardly as I landed, that sent me into a right-handed spin so I used my head to stop me, hitting a coat hook on the dining room door and landing badly on my right side in the dining room! 

I stayed there a while, did a self assessment! Knew nothing was broken, got up and wobbled into the living room and sat down, sort of was going to leave it at that, just take it easy, you know, it's just a headache, it'll be okay... But I got up to get a cup of tea after a couple of minutes, and saw the lump on my head! Nice big already bruising lump! So I messaged Barry, he came home from work, had ordered me to call 111, they got a hospital paramedic to call me, and was told to come to hospital, it's a head injury and I had to go.. So we got a cab, and spent from about 11am to 4pm in hospital.. I sprained my right ankle, and was given information about the head injury and what to look out for, oh, and to stay awake! 

Filling out the preliminary forms on Saturday in City hospital, had to mention I'd only just been in the Queen's Med! And why!

Wasn't expecting that!

I have to say though also, I couldn't have had better care in either hospitals, Saturday, a team of four caring, considerate and knowledgeable people, the specialist was Spanish, everything explained throughout.. 

And on Thursday, under extreme pressures in A&E, everyone was happy caring and doing their best at all times... Despite a woman kicking off, literally, headbutting the screen, walls, doors, swearing and shouting, people complaining, a prisoner with his two guards! A couple of people who were challenged for different reasons, but both kept getting up and trying to get out, wandering around.. 

It's been a other day since I wrote earlier here... Last night's dream was on and off trains and two funerals! So the excitement goes on!

M.

That's what fear can whip people into. You make people afraid enough, of something completely manufactured. And you can drive them to become murderers. Cold blooded murderers.

Lisa Kudro 


Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Need to catch up, a lot, mind been distracted so apologies, for my lateness! 

And I wrote this a week ago!!! Posting now!

When heading down to London the weekend before last, sat facing thr wrong way, if there even is a wrong way? Sat in reverse? 

Anyways, I thought to myself as I watched the world pass by quickly and seeing where we'd been, not where we were headed, and it made me think philosophically.. We have to see where we've been to see where we're going in life...

And then London! The big smoke! Lols! 

I hadn't been on the underground for years, used to very used to hopping on and off different lines, managed myself around the London Underground without a worry..

But this time I thought!! Gulp! Where what how! 

Well it's easier to pay for one thing, phone tap to get through the barriers, phone tap to get out when at destination, and bobs your uncle! 

I also, just walked it, didn't hesitate, read signs and names with quickness and ease, with barely a heartbeat of wavering.. 

Like riding a bike! Or better, as I don't do bike riding easily, at all! 

Met up with cousin T. was wonderful, and at last met someone the whole family and heard of and never seen, bar one other... I am now officially honoured! So met two friends of T., had a great afternoon and evening and morning! Before heading back up north, retracing steps taken before was even easier! 

Last time at St Pancras was with mom, when we went to Paris.. 2009, heads-up! TIME GOES FASTER THAN WE REALIZE!

Okay, sorry for saying that so loudly, but I think we all forget that small simple fact!

Weird dreams last night! I was getting shot at in one, quite a blockbuster of a dream, five of us at the beginning fleeing some people!?? Only two of us left at the end.

Then my friend P. was flying a helicopter in another, we were flying way too high, she landed us and then I was slow dancing! Next memorable dream, the driver had to drag me into a car that was way too low and awkward to get into, very boxy, almost Minecraft game car!

We came off the road on a sharp right-hand bend, flew off the cliff, landed on a lake and managed, luckily to stop on the shore! Then we walked to a restaurant there and we're greeted by Harry Potter characters!

All very challenging dreams and situations! Except maybe the dancing bit?

No wonder I feel tired! I say laughing! 

I need to dig hard today to get that 'Happy' out... Lols.. feeling well stuck in my little quagmire of blahness last few days

M.

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine - Magician-Author-Lecturer