Seeing you much love and keeping you in our prayers Panache and MrP. So very hard for you both but hang on in there and try to find something for which to be thankful as that is something that keeps us going. Sometimes we are trying so hard to do that we have ended up laughing at our absurdity and end up laughing at ourselves but funnily enough we have found that helps us. 
Love your wig dragonfly it is lovely and I hope it makes you feel better about the hair coming off. My best buddy got her husband to do the deed for her and found some beautiful, warm turbans which she still uses 13 years on because she found they suited her so well. She had a pretty wig too and it was impossible to tell that it wasn't her own hair.
Maw that is a very elegant stone and has been done beautifully with those lovely words. Beautiful roses for him too. 
corner I understand about the comfort eating 
I have had to have serious words with myself!
ann I am so glad that Molly turned up and know exactly how you felt when she was missing. Smokie is very naughty and has stayed out all night now and then. I have discovered that when he eventually returns then if I don't speak to or look at him he is very good for a good long while afterwards! He knows that he is much loved and can't bear us to be cross with him. I just wish he was a lap cat but he is certainly not that 
Dear soop I hope you are resting because it doesn't sound as if you are! Hope you are enjoying the lovely sunshine and super sunsets. We still have quite a bit of leaf colour which is making all the difference to how everything looks and how it makes you feel. Don't much like the cold but if it is also sunny then it is a joy.
Everything here is carrying on carrying on and I am continuing to cream the hurts etc and hoping that Himself will be able to start wearing the leg in the next few days. We are off to the big smoke again next week for a 'service and adjustments' for all the hydraulics in the joints of his new leg which will be a bit pointless if has not worn it. I am hoping that the new skin will stand up to it all and he will find it comfortable to wear it!
TOYA 
Ann Now just take a wee walk down the road and back!
I've just been to one of those horrendous photo booths in a supermarket so that I can renew my blue badge and seem to have come away with photos of someone I don't know! Why do they always look so dreadful? It took four of us to get the thing working and then it told me that it looked as if I was smiling even though I thought it seemed as if I was shell-shocked! 
My profuse apologies to ALL of you. I've been kept busy all day long. I've done nowt aboot the hoos. Please will you understand that I am TOYA and will do my very best to catch up tomorrow. 
Ok, who stole the lovely long post I did this morning? I can't recall what I said but it was erudite, witty, compassionate and caring!!
One thing I did say was that I think soop is a superstar for starting this lovely, caring, supportive place.
panache please take of yourself and DH. I echo corner's post - hunkering down is good but so is distraction.
syn, I swear that the photos that come from those booths are of the very much older, more haggard person who had a go three weeks ago.
Ann you are sounding rather more upbeat. I hope the shoes appear quickly.
I hope your chemo passed off ok dragonfly. It will have been good to have your daughter there.
morethan just sending love - I dont know what else to do or say. 
Love the stone maw, you've done paw proud.
Sorry if I have missed anyone but TOYA.
Hello kitcheners, I don’t drop in often these days I’m afraid but I know how much our soop is loved by all her friends and I wanted to share yet another example of her unstinting kindness.
We lost our lovely dog, our companion of many years on 30th October, and less than two weeks later the postie brought us this beautiful gift from soop. Such a talented lady, she has captured Stella’s lovely nature in her portrait. Thank you Soop I’ll be forever grateful for your thoughtfulness.
Morning all,
What a dull, wet few days we have had here. Hoping for some much needed respite over the weekend- poor old Sam is missing his walks but cannot be persuaded to go out if the weather is bad !
So sorry to hear of the loss of your beloved friend Baubles and what a lovely memento - Soop is very talented.
I do love a bargain Ann , enjoy your shoes when they arrive.
Nothing much happening here but Ill leave you with a lovely picture of my youngest daughter, her husband and 'erbert and sherbet !! The company she works for included them in a photo shoot for some of their products . It has captured Jackson without his teeth, Cooper looking a bit bemused and the perfect moment between my daughter and SiL . I'm feeling quite Christmasy now .
Sending a hug and kind thoughts to all those in need x
You know what...^You lot^ are beyond amazing. The kind support that you share for those of our Granspals in need, is truly heartwarming.
Thank you for hanging around in the kitchen and doing what you do for each other. that was the dream I had long ago when I first opened the kitchen. Bless each and every one of you. 
N&G Thank you for sharing the delightful family portrait with us. It's perfect in every sense.
A friend in the village has an aged, deaf, blind in one eye terrier. I am painting Daisy's portrait for her. Wish me luck. 
Ann When those shoes arrive, us lot would like a photo.
dragonfly Having the support of your daughter during chemo is priceless. Rest as much as you are able.
Maw I also think that Paw's stone is indeed elegant.
anno that phone call could have raised concerns in your mind. Never the less, it was a favourable outcome. Although "wear and tear" wherever it may be is an ongoing buggeration. Part and parcel of life's rich tapestry. Rest...when possible.
Raffa is gorgeous, isn't he? He's my number one favourite tennis player of all time.
The new owners of the rambling farm house are working on refurbishing it. The owner doesn't want cats in or around the barns. A lovely lady has borrowed two traps. Tonight she hopes to entice the remaining feral felines into them. We then need to talk to the man at the cat's protection league in Campbeltown. Whatever the outcome, if we can help, we will. MacS has re treated the chalet. We also have insulation and a new carpet for inside. Should the aged cat remember that he has, in the past, called by for food, he can rest assured that there will be shelter etc for him here. He is old. He lives three miles away at present. Watch this space.
Painting is progressing. I feel that I've achieved something today.
Time for log off. Back tomorrow. TOYA
Susan pics PLEASE of Matilda riding her Stanley unicorn. A magical moment.
Charleyg I am not overdoing things. That's a promise. The cats didn't visit the traps last night. Maybe tonight. It now transpires that the lady who discovered the dead ginger cat down at the farm, may have thought the cat was younger than it was because it was curled up tightly. The ginger kitty is still alive. Therefore, it may have been Brodie, as no one has seen him since the visit to the vet way back when.
dragonfly MacS took this photo of my hair cut just this morning. We now look very similar.
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