Bring her Sunshine

Last night had had a brief jovial exchange of words with Pep, the Myeloma cancer fighter who I mentioned last on October 24th. Then hours later when checking my Facebook, saw she had posted, two days ago, the news that despite all the painful and weary treatments she has been through, the Myeloma has returned and she has to start all over again. I felt very deeply for her.

Guess I shouldn't though have been surprised to see today that she has been posting on the Myeloma support Facebook page - typical Pep, it was all words of comfort, help and advice for fellow Myeloma sufferers and their families. Not a word of her problems.

The girl never ceases to amaze me that, sorry to put it this way, looking death in the face, she is spending more time on others than thinking of herself. Pep, the sunflower is for you.
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Luckily here the unpleasant parts of the Halloween hype hasn't hit our part of the world, so our early evening drive to the garden refuse dump was not made difficult by barriers being set up or nasty clowns jumping around. However a bit of anger when we got there to find the gates closed. Seemingly gthey have decided winter is here and they are no longer opening on Monday evenings. Try again on Friday..

Halloween was a bit of a highlight when I was at a Somerset catholic boarding school in the 60's. The school was actually called "All Hallows" and still exists today. Back then a farmer delivered a trailer of swedes which we then carved out to make lanterns but I think they came to be part of the Guy Fawkes bonfire and fireworks display at the school on 5th November. The school had a lot of woods and gardens and I suspect the ground keepers loved the opportunity of he bonfire to get rid of the garden rubbish.