Progress
Nov. 4th, 2025 02:50 pmLets make it three posts in a day....
[Yes, I've taken a week's holiday!]
So, cancerwise, it's been a drag and then a whirl, and then, hopefully, a new, settled (for a while) normal.
First, the drag. Going back to work was great. Fought to go back up to my 4-day week as soon as I could as three days wasn't enough. Tiring through the summer, and cost any energy for reading or knitting, but worthwhile. As the months have gone on the fatigue has crept back more and more. I'd started joking about bedtime getting so early I wouldn't have got up yet! Getting home in the evening and not being aboe to eat dinner due to exhaustion is, however, no joke.
Second, the whirl. This treatment regimen started in slight confusion and it continues that way. The 3-weekly infusions stopped six weeks back, several months earlier than I'd expected (especially with appointments scheduled until the end of the year). Entirely correctly, it turns out. So, having got over my crossness (understatement, that) at suddenly and unexpectedly changed plan and the usual changes in medications hiccups (removing is just as unbalancing as starting), I'm feeling less achy and a whole lot less tired. I'm even staying up after 7.30 in the evening! What larks! (Or owls?)
I'm getting my knitting mojo back too.
Another year like this doesn't seem like a bad proposition. I'm intending to retire in a year too.
[Yes, I've taken a week's holiday!]
So, cancerwise, it's been a drag and then a whirl, and then, hopefully, a new, settled (for a while) normal.
First, the drag. Going back to work was great. Fought to go back up to my 4-day week as soon as I could as three days wasn't enough. Tiring through the summer, and cost any energy for reading or knitting, but worthwhile. As the months have gone on the fatigue has crept back more and more. I'd started joking about bedtime getting so early I wouldn't have got up yet! Getting home in the evening and not being aboe to eat dinner due to exhaustion is, however, no joke.
Second, the whirl. This treatment regimen started in slight confusion and it continues that way. The 3-weekly infusions stopped six weeks back, several months earlier than I'd expected (especially with appointments scheduled until the end of the year). Entirely correctly, it turns out. So, having got over my crossness (understatement, that) at suddenly and unexpectedly changed plan and the usual changes in medications hiccups (removing is just as unbalancing as starting), I'm feeling less achy and a whole lot less tired. I'm even staying up after 7.30 in the evening! What larks! (Or owls?)
I'm getting my knitting mojo back too.
Another year like this doesn't seem like a bad proposition. I'm intending to retire in a year too.
Pikmin Icons
Oct. 29th, 2025 07:09 pm
It's remarkably difficult, at least I find it so, to take screenshots of one's iPhone. As a result capturing good images of Pikmin proced challenging.
That A-Z Meme
Oct. 27th, 2025 06:56 pmGoodness it is ages since I did a meme and, I suspect, even longer since I actually managed to write any fanfic, however the A-Z meme got me curious so without more ado.
- After the Apocalypse (Becker, Lester, Primeval Zombie AU, Teen, 1076 words)
- Baba Yaga between the Worlds (Natasha, Clint, MCU, ALl Ages, 888 words)
- Challenges and Discoveries (Evan, Howard, Primeval:New World, All Ages, 3898 words)
- Dinner at the Eagle and Child (Liz, Silver, Doctor Who/Sapphire and Steel crossover, All Ages, 1490 words)
- Elle n'a pas Peur des Fantomes (Adele, Agathe, Frankenstein's Creature, Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adele Blanc-Sec/Frankenstein crossover, 6174 words)
- Foiling the Irulon Invasion (Donna, Eleven, Doctor Who, All Ages, 745 words)
- Guardians of the Anomalies (Cutter, Stephen/Ryan, Groot, Rocket, Primeval/MCU AU Crossover, All Ages, 1093 words)
- Harriet Vane's Medieval Mysteries (Eowyn/Faramir, Tolkien/Primeval crossover, All Ages, 2011 words)
- In which Zoe Washburne meets Esmerelda Weatherwax (Zoe Washburne, Esmerelda Weatherwax, Firefly/Discworld crossover, All Ages, 3015 words)
- Just the Fear and the Hatred (Robin of Sherwood, All Ages, 3093 words)
- Kidnapped! (Stephen/Ryan, Clint Coulson, Primeval/Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D crossover, Teen, 2530 words)
- Livermorium (Clara, Silver, Doctor Who/Sapphire and Steel crossover, 853 words)
- Martha and Yaz Adventure in Time and Space (Martha, Yaz, Doctor Who, All Ages, 3890 words)
- Not a Creature was Stirring, not even a Mouse (Claudia/Ryan, Primeval, All Ages, 4413 words)
- Operation Golden Age (Reprise) (Claudia, Ryan, Primeval/Doctor Who crossover, All Ages, 5510 words)
- Playing at Fighting Monsters (Ryan, Sapphire, Steel, Primeval/Sapphire and Steel crossover, All Ages, 1215 words)
- Query. Fact. Supposition. Suggestion. Agreement (BB-8, Rey, Star Wars, All Ages, 413 words)
- Rain and Blessing (Connor/Becker, Connor/Ryan, Primeval, All Ages, 593 words)
- Side Quest (Harry, Sarah, Four, Doctor Who, All Ages, 6388 words)
- Twelve and a half Times Silver didn't meet the Doctor and One and a half Times he did (Silver, Doctor Who/Sapphire and Steel Crossover, All Ages, 2253 words)
- U
- V
- Waes Hael (Stephen/Ryan, Primeval, All Ages, 4511 words)
- X
- Yangchuanosaurus in the Undergrowth (Stephen/Ryan, Primeval, Teen, 1483 words)
- Z


