Mondeo and snow

My plans for an escape are crumbling at the edges as the Aston is still stuck in the garage in bits, as the job turned out to be more complex than expected, so to the new return to Gerry date is next Wednesday, at £100 an hour I am glad I am not paying! At the same time the hoped for high pressure ridge, to create perfect cool walking weather in Skye and spectacular views which can happen in Scotland in winter, has been replaced by an Arctic low bringing really cold windy weather and even potentially snow to us from Sunday onward. So my Bond like hope of the open topped Aston, beautiful views, warm pub evenings as I tour the north has morphed into Mondeo estate, cloud and snow - at least the pubs will still be warm. So now I am looking for nice places to stay near main roads (so I can get out if it snows hard). I may even defer my escape until Wednesday, if the weather looks better, and the car looks like being released from its automotive prison.

Medically we are still on a good curve, I am anemic, but not to a transfusion level, getting a bit fitter, but still running out of puff from time to time. I saw Dr Scott yesterday and she was cheery about my prospects, again warning me that I would be sick for a few months after the next adventure in hospital (the way I am now does not count as sick in her world, so we will have to be prepared). All the tests came out well apart from a bit of a query about one of the chambers of my heart being a bit distended, apparently this is normal for the chemo I have had and is not a big issue. All the more reason for keeping up with the walking.

I went all the way into town today to check out some insurance for Lee, the cold wind was a challenge so I had to duck into a coffee place to warm up half way home. I was tired when I got home so as usual a short kip got my energy back up.

The blog is going international even more, some recent comments are from folks from blogworld in Canada who have been reading the blog, the first time I have heard from someone outside the community of colleagues, family and friends, so that is pretty cool. This may happen more as we were visited by a journalist, Clare Smith, yesterday who had been put on to the blog by the folks at the Maggies centre, she is doing a series of articles in support of Maggies and so next weeks may be about this blog and how the Maggies folks helped us. You can find some of her previous work on Scotsman.com, after chatting over a couple of coffee's she wanted to do an article about Gore later, so I earned my "Gore bore" merit badge over again.

So all is well here, Lee's company is well on the way to being set up and may even start trading at the start of April, if we can get some legal stuff sorted out and I can work out how to set up the accounting software on the computer.

This week sees the end of the Rugby competition and the decision on the championship is down to the last games on Saturday which is great - Go Ireland !!!

Best wishes from a windy and cold Edinburgh

Cheers

Gerry