D Day + 47: Tuesday 28 September 2010 - Just Pottering

It's amazing how quickly time seems to go by in some respects, but so slowly in others!  It's Tesco day again, which has come round quickly - I never relish the thought of spending all that money just to realise that next week it will all have disappeared and I'll have to do it again!  We had a bit of a pensive moment in the car - our appointment with the doctor on Thursday is preying on C's mind; he has never been someone with an idle mind and his illness has his mind whirling like the proverbial dervish most of the time.  Trouble is that he takes a thought and runs all the way with it, practically deciding what the outcome is before we even get there.  It's not a good process, but we had to talk it out and confront the (hopefully remote) possibility that we get bad news.  I realise I have to keep him upbeat and positive, but dealing with a little reality now and then has to happen, we can't blinker ourselves to what this disease can do.  Anyhow, we got there okay, lifted our chins and got on with the shopping - ironically to be confronted with someone C knows slightly (an ex customer of his from when he worked at the garage) telling us about how he was given three years to live (in 1995 so that was a good bit!) and what he's done to still be here today - bit of a downer on the one side as that is what C is confronting (a life threatening illness) but good on the other because this guy is still around despite what the docs told him.  Thankfully C got the view of the light at the end of the tunnel and saw things in a positive way.  I was really impressed - he is going through this horrible illness, has literally just got over a down spell in the car park, and coped so well with this guy's talk; hats off to my hubby!!
Didn't go mad with the shopping but my bank account is now over £100 lighter yet again!!  I reconcile myself with the thought that there was a bottle of gin in there.....
We ventured out to Briddlesford Farm again today - the bread we'd bought there on Sunday was finished at breakfast today so we decided to get some more, and stop for coffee as well, while we were there.  Very nice; must squeeze in a lunch there one day...On the way back home we got almost all the way back only to find that the road was closed off at the top of Bully's Hill.  We parked the car in the viewpoint layby and walked down the road to get home, stopping to talk to the police guy on the way.  Apparently a stretch limo had hit the bank and flipped onto its roof, so the recovery truck was there; thankfully there had been no passengers in the limo and the driver was not hurt.  We decided to leave the car on the Down and collect it later.
Bren and Gem popped round this afternoon - Bren spent last weekend in Prague on a mate's stag do, which apparently went really well and they all had a great time; apart from getting back to the airport where Bren stood and watched the last bag going around the carousel...only to realise that it wasn't his.....Apparently they have now tracked it down and he should have it back before too long!  Well at least he lost it on the way home, not the way there...the thought of spending all weekend in the same clothes, and underwear....not nice....!!!!
Went back up onto the Down to collect my car - C came too and parked up for a look off while I took the mutts on one of our favourite old routes, one we used to do on Sundays with my dad before he couldn't make it up hills any more.  I haven't been up there in ages and it's really got overgrown now it was difficult to get through in places.  Must go armed with a machete next time - kind of Kaz of the jungle type thing to clear a path!!!
I have a confession to make - I'm hooked on The Biggest Loser.  Well, was hooked, as the series has finished now.  I just love watching this programme because (a) it makes me feel REALLY thin and (2) it's amazing to see these people overcome their fears and problems to release the thin person they all know is inside them.  Brilliant - the guy who won lost a total of 239lb - that's over 17 stone in weight.  Amazing.  It inspires me to keep walking, eating properly and not drinking too much - at least for a while....