Wednesday 27 July 2011

Saludos desde Menorca!

Arrived in Menorca 18th July. It has been a mixture of really hot weather and rain! Not too bad though as the rain has become a much needed break from the heat...phew....

I have stayed mainly in the shade and have been using fctor 30, still managed to pick up a bit of colour though (apart from legs, fake tan there I'm afraid lol.

Managed to watch the cricket (rainy day) and football (Villa v blackburn, as we speak  - rain again!)

Tummy trouble has plagued me yet again, especcially as now I am almost morphine free. Immodium is rapidly becoming my NBF! I am eating very healthily (apart from the pancakes at breakfast every 3 days which are to die for, yum) and I rocken I have not put on a single pound. Alcohol, just don't feel like it...It took us 4 days to consume a bottle of red wine at dinner lol. We have been goig to the bar for a cocktail before dinner though ( I'm no good once I've eaten)

. The hotel is lovely, very modern and quiet (no children) we are not the oldest here by a long shot but are probably the first in bed lol. We have BBC 1, 2 and 3! and sky news, plus the internet to keep us entertained.

We hired a car for 4 days and visited most of the island! the old town of Cuitadela was fab for shopping but unfortunatly we went on Sunday when everywhere was closed :(( much to Pauls delight! I did manage to get a pair of 'Menorcan sandles' to add to my shoe collection though! lol

We now have 5 days left, home for 10 then off again to mainland Spain for another 2 weeks! 

Adios for now! X

Wednesday 13 July 2011

Day after race for life!

Did the race for life last night with my daughter and my 2 sisters. We are still counting the money we have raised for cancer research uk but think the grand totel is just short of £2,000!

We had a great time although it was very emotional and I had a lump in my throat for most of the evening. Sarah and I were interviewed by BBC radio Stoke and I was even on the radio this morning for a live interview with 2 others who took part last night, only lasted a couple of minutes thank goodness, I think I'm more of a 'behind the scenes' kind of gal. I did have tummy cramps on the way round but used one of those 'cura heat' patches so not too bad. Over took loads of people too and manged to ge round the course in under 50 minutes!

This will be my last entry for a couple of weeks as we are off on holiday on Monday! 

Friday 8 July 2011

Friday 8th

Where is the time going?? Don't know how I ever managed to fit in work lol.

Been down to Oxford (hello everyone if you are reading) to visit friends at the JR. It was lovely to see everyone, I miss them all, I loved working there.

Been camping for the weekend too in Skegby to the annual 'do' this year was the Kangaroo do. Found camping a little hard, the weather was great duing the day but I got tired and needed to lie down, in the tent was impossible as it was like a sauna so had to revert to car with seat reclined and AC on! lol. Then at night it was absolutely freezing. Next year we will hire a motor home and go off on an adventure for the week!


Went on to York, what a beautiful city. Stayed in the Royal York Hotel and to be honest for a 4 star hotel a premier inn would have been just as good, wasn't worth the money apart from the location. I had been a little unwell (tummy troubles since Saturday), since I cut down on the morphine things have gone the other way. I had forgotton my hot water bottle (I need it to ease the gripy pain) so we bought some 'curaheat' adhesive patches. You have to stick them to your clothes though and my 'clothes' (well undergarments) were a bit too small! So I could only use them in bed at night stuck in side a pillow case! There we were, just managed to get to sleep on the first night and the fire alarm went off! It was 12.06! Everyone had to go outside until the firemen arrived and checked the place out, after that we couldn't get back to sleep. 


We enjoyed York, walked round the city walls, visited Art gallery did some shopping and eat out. On the way home on Tuesday we even managed to fit in a visit to the Trafford centre for more shopping! It was Pauls idea and he hates shopping, he must love me. Luckily for him, I'm not the same as I used to be I get tire and fed up shopping now lol, so we were only there about 2 hours.


Been busy making props for the next party - Wild West- so have now finished painting cactus and totem pole lol, need to keep busy takes my mind off everything. Have started coughing again now and most of the side effects have dissapeared (exept for tummy ones), I Hope its still working. I do think about it everyday sometimes I have forgotton which is good as I just get on with things normally, things will never be 'normall' again though will they?