Things are slipping back into focus.

Tho she's still desperately tired and bleeding far too much, the hospital have confirmed that the pre-cancerous cells have been successfully treated and removed. This is for the second time in ten years. Hurrah.
Just the pleasure of a smear test (at least) every six months for the next couple of years...

At least we should have a relatively easy task of it this weekend with both F and A away at a camp with the Guides. First time we've been without both of them, and the prospect of spending a weekend with only the three youngest is quite cool. Not sure that LC agrees. She missed F earlier tin the week while she was staying at Grandma's and has been quite difficult at night as a result. can't complain though as she's usually better than good. Bee a big week for F actually - Monday to Thursday in Npton with my folks, one night at home and now off camping in the Forest until Sunday afternoon. reasonable weather forecast, so I hope they have a good time. Archery, abseiling, rifle-shooting - oooh, the opportunities for children these days.

I have relieved my head of at least one issue and successfully said 'no' to BIscuit regarding her trip back home next week. She has this crazy idea of going back to her Mum's as soon as her exams finish next week, and then coming down for ONE DAY at the beginning of July to move into the new house. She is a rubbish student:##!!!
Why not just stay here and, well, just be a student? Idle about, go out with friends, chill etc etc - she's really missing the point big time.
I really can't see the point of taking a bed and a table home. If they need to be in the house or are wanted as new/spare furniture etc why is it my problem to get them there?

Anyway, I found it hard to say no, but its done now. She's OK with it and I feel better.

Feel better too for planning the next six months of work through the office. Its cray, but its not something I've ever done with any conviction before and now its really important.

Just posted a list up of JF;s 'secondary' output. his b-sides and extra tracks make a superb collection of songs! I know and love them all of course, but I don't know if we have ever considered them as a body before. OK they are a mix of styles etc, and there is an 18 year gap between IMW and The Dr*ve EP, but the set contains some (if not most??) of his best material.

the only UK date this year has just been announced, at Cargo in October. I'd love to go, but given this morning I suggested I might start the CMI course around that time as well I'm not sure if my head will be able to cope or whether or not she will even agree to it all.
My problem is that I seem to always have to be near bursting point. As soon as something gets sorted in my head or my time (like the lift for Biscuit or the constitution of the St Denys Friends group I have composed) then I feel a need to fill it with something else. The course is exactly what I need and want to do.

Why, why, why is Britain's Got Talent so fascinating?

The acts I love and the tackiness of the rehearsals was attractive. but the semi finals have been SO SO crap. Is the target audience really THAT stupid, so as not to see the best act is last and they are all being 'persuade' to vote for that.
I hate the whole idea of public phone-in voting because it makes the whole 'are they any good' question more or less redundant, and the judges a waste of time.
The very badness of it is irresistible - I think I am being enlightened as to exactly why I have given up on TV. This kind of thing proves it so perfectly.

Its' the whole scripted "we'll be gutted if we don't win. This means everything, and I'm so, so desperate. It's all I have ever wanted and not to get into the final will be the end of the world"

That's just transparent, and really quite scary.
Is that REALLY all there is. Come on guys,look around you

Must go, the last semi has just started...