Reflection

I feel relaxed after the good news last Friday.  It was probably the most uplifting thing for me since dismissing the existence of secondary cancer back in March.

I've been working all week and have been in the office everyday except Monday.  As we are off on holiday next week there are deadlines to hit and I have been putting a bit of graft in.

Kitten and I are off to the Isle of Wight for a week with Notoplip, Sushi and all of our children. We've got ourselves a really good place to relax in, so all we need is some half decent weather.  Right now I can think of nothing better to do than relax with the family and the place we have is set in a couple of acres with private access to part of a beach.  So, walks and sea and Chi Kung in the back garden with even more wildlife than ours.

The Chi Kung has been very useful to me over the last couple of months.  It is something which is very simple to do and requires a quietening of the mind and body.  Apart from helping me to keep physically strong through chemotherapy it helps me to keep focused in the moment.  I supplement the Chi Kung with meditations and the constant repetition of the same themes provides a natural development and pathway of its own, a quiet road for the soul through the turmoil.

I intend to enjoy fully the time between now and the operation as there are no obvious obstacles only good things.  Time to enjoy with the family on holiday and a football World Cup too.

The World Cup festivities start in earnest on Saturday as SandD  are holding a birthday party for their daughter in the day followed by a viewing of the first England match in the evening.  It's the end of April since we have all get together and there will be a big group, so an enjoyable time before kicking off to the IoW the next morning.

Meanwhile my efforts to get fit have taken a little knock  as failure to warm up properly in the gym has resulted in a problem with my achilles, so it is back to the mad Canadian osteopath with a different ailment.  First the back then the tinnitus, now the leg!

There's not too much to say because I am busy and I am happy.  That feels like a good place to be.