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Dear All,
Well, life remains interesting...I finished my second job this week (finally redundancy has come after it hanging over me for months and months). I'm OK about it, actually and hope to have a little more time - although to be fair that is not yet appearing!
I've also been sort of offered some more nursing hours at Dr (Mr)'s practice (the husband of the GP I work with now). I'm not sure whether to take them, although I got along with Pam the Practice Manager.
Simply, I feel a bit snowed under at the moment and am very tired. I have a new preaching rota, work to do for Cumbria and the Ph.D to submit to external reader. This latter is simply the chore of putting it together and posting it (it is printed) and is only a hour of work, but feels huge. The Cumbria task is 500 words (and not beyond me) and the next sermon I need to prepare for is not until about 12th July - so all are acheivable looked at logically, but none feel that way.
I'm back at Walton on 1st July for a brain scan and numerous other tests concerned with my memory. I can laugh about it - but to be honest, it does get me down a bit sometimes. Everything is such an effort. One the positive side, I can't bear a grudge, because I will simply forget that someone has upset me after a few days (the reverse is also true - I will forget that I may have upset someone else. It's all too easy to get paranoid...). However, can you imagine what it is like to have no memory at all of events like Christmas (where you went to church for example - I only know that I did because I always do) or, now, Easter? If I write a sermon a few weeks in advance, preaching it can become very spontaneous!
Last time I was at Walton, the Consultant I saw (nice man) did a test called the mini mental state examination. Here are the three words he asked me to remember: apple, table, penny. Isn't that great? Six weeks ago, and I can still remember the three words! I can't remember his NAME!!
Must go and email a College about Matthew....
God bless
With love as ever,
Lesley xx
Just for today, dear Lord, let me realise that there is nothing that we cannot handle together - and may I pray the same prayer tomorrow.....
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Hmmm? I can bear a grudge .... send me yours if you can't bear it yourself ... I'll nurture it, and train it up and send it back fully house-trained.
I too have two hips ... AND a knee ... running out of things to do in the Summer ... a fellah needs a hobby, after all .... resorting to flying to Crete tomorrow in desperate attempt to spend money since no one wants £10,000 for the other knee this year ... she whom no one else has had to marry for 33 years says that Theodore can't come [[[pout]]] ... I wanted to take his photo at Knossoss
Quatenus in hebdomades quattuor et dies duos ire possumus?
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spelling Knossosssss is much like spelling Banana ... it's not so much how as knowing when to stop
Quatenus in hebdomades quattuor et dies duos ire possumus?
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Some spellings take on a mind of their own. If I try to write 'Crete' it wants to turn into 'creak' - is that your other knee? Or are you using the health service to obey the injunction to become a new person? Have a great time! 
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Dear all,
I promise to send Tedi two baby gridges (is that the correct plural form?) as soon as I can possibly recall any so that they can grow to maturity in Kneessoff - or wherever it is 
Actually it is truely delightful to have the venerable bear - and pater of Desmond back among us again. It has been too long.
Those who have been following will be pleased to hear that:
a) Matthew has been found a place to continue to cook - Liverpool Community College have happily offered him a place and are delighted to take him.
b) Mother is now down to one stick!
I am still traipsing to and fro to various hospitals - this week Clatterbridge, next week Walton - and am only vaguely fed up with it all, mostly because there is so much else to do! I have six case studies to write before 24th - and another sermon. I reassure myself that I've never missed a deadline in my life - but if I don't actually sit and do the work it will never get done, will it? I seem to have procrastination off to a fine art at the moment...
I think I'm probably at my maximal dose of chemo, because I have a couple of days when I feel a bit rough - sore mouth, sicky etc. so I don't really want them to increase it, but I guess it will depend on what last week's brain scan shows.
Nevertheless, God is good and very near. I sometimes park my car on a quiet stretch of the front and gaze out at the sea (and the wind turbines) - I can sense His presence there more than anywhere lately - except perhaps when I'm bopping around the back of church (robed) to a particularly bouncy chorus 
By the way, does anyone want a bench blessing?
You should SEE what I got up to last Sunday 
God bless
With love as ever,
Lesley xx (and Desmond - who says "Hi")
PS: I've got a very posh photo I could upload.....
Just for today, dear Lord, let me realise that there is nothing that we cannot handle together - and may I pray the same prayer tomorrow.....
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So pleased at your good news items.
yes, let's see your posh photo
once again, I'm amazed at your strength and perseverance - a lesson in faith?
Bless you Lesley
Ann
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Dear all,
Attached - now I know how to do it - posh photo (with Mayor & assorted dignitaries).
It was very hot that day - I was roasting under the robes
One of the stranger things I have done.....
God bless
With love as ever,
Lesley xx
Just for today, dear Lord, let me realise that there is nothing that we cannot handle together - and may I pray the same prayer tomorrow.....
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And the lady on the left is about to lose her hat...
Your hair looks good!
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I like your "posh photo" Lesley.
I have heard some clergy wear very little under their robes in the summer (when we have summer)
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Dear All,
Yes, it was a very interesting event.
The Mayor also spent the afternoon speculating on what I had on under the robes....
The answer was not a lot (underwear only). It was very hot indeed, and as the place has no vestry or chapel at the moment, I had to drive up there robed. 
The Mayoress is lovely looking and very elegant. Very Audrey Hepburn in the outfit I thought. The hat was firmly in place with a comb and pins.
My hair (as you can see) is now copious and snow white where it was "zapped". I did try colouring it, but the skin is too fragile to cope and it ulcerated  - so I will have to come to terms with looking like a honey badger.
However - it's an improvement on bald
I'm not feeling so well today - but I think it's just tiredness. Work has been crazy. Phones ringing off the hook with people who think they've got swine flu. Mostly it's just pig fever (as in people who are a sick as pigs and want the day off work) but we have had ONE genuine case we think....Roll on the "official" helpline
God bless
With love as ever,
Lesley xx (and Desmond xx)
Just for today, dear Lord, let me realise that there is nothing that we cannot handle together - and may I pray the same prayer tomorrow.....
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