October is Breast Cancer Awareness month

October is Breast Cancer awareness month.  I had a great opportunity to speak to my local paper on Wednesday about my experience with cancer.  I was over the moon with the article.  The great journalist Katie who came to my house to interview me, picked up on all the messages I wanted to send out to anyone who is going through it at the moment.  Thank you to Katie and the Swindon Advertiser.  If I can help someone who is going through it to see there is light at the end of the tunnel then I have done my job.

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/9964099.Cancer_survivor_has_a_message_of_hope/

I really enjoy doing media work for Breakthrough Breast Cancer and see it as a priviledge to be asked to support such a great Charity.  The steps they are making through research is amazing but will only keep going through charitable donations.

On a more random note.  I bought a onesie (adult baby grow) and I was very excited about it.  It is white with a sort of pink pattern going through it.  By the way, most Men are onesie hatters, so I have learnt!  Women on the other hand love them.  Any way,  I stupidly put it in with a white's wash, and turned all my whites pink!  So I am doing really well for wear it pink this month!  However, not sure my son will think the same when he has to wear his white/pink polo shirts for school, whoops!

Macmillan coffee morning

On Friday I arranged to hold the Macmillan coffee morning.  All it took was one email, to ask people to bake.  The response was phenomenal, we sold lots of cakes and raised about £450. 

I really enjoyed selling the cakes.  It was a time to step away from desks get a piece of cake and a coffee.  It was a real event and was truly humbling that people took the time to bake for Macmillan.  Of course I bought a few cakes, scoffed the lot and then started to feel a bit nauseas.

Macmillan is a fabulous charity and I was glad to be part of a great event. 

Where have I been?

Hello Everyone, in all honesty, I lost my blogging mojo.  I started to over analyse it, why am I doing it?  Does anyone read it?  I have decided I am going to start putting on the blog some of my novels and I want your feedback and comments. 

I am reading the obligatory book of the moment Shades of Grey.  I found book 1, good, slowly building up on the story,  book 2, was a little tedious.  My thought process was not again, seriously, is this Woman always ready for it?  I am now on the 3rd book and everyone has told me it is more about the story.  I must say it is not written particularly well but it is griping.  I find it fascinating that this triology has taken the world by storm and I am in aure of E L James and her success.  It is a great source of discussion, I have had many chats with other Women reading the book.  Mainly, in coffee houses.

Any way, off to read the next chapter.

Summer Time?????????

Ummm excuse me is n't this supposed to be Summer?  Well, we had about a week, which was about the time they announced the hose pipe ban.  As the self proficised draught was announced it has continually rained!  My lovely Summer wardrobe lies redundant at the bottom of my wardrobe.  I had boots on at the beginning of the week. 

Poor old Prince Phillip fell fowl of the dastardly weather.  Most of the floatilla looked like drowned rats.  Aparently the Royal Family could not even sit down on the chairs provided as they were soaking wet, bloody typical in this country.  Let's face it Wimbeldon starts next week so it probably won't get any better. 

I implore the weather Gods, please give us a great July and August, please please!  Everyone is getting fed up with this awful weather.  We need sunshine!  I want to wear my Summer dresses and flip flops.  When we had the good weather for that tiny snippet of Summer, I did maximise on the exposure of my Summer wardrobe and did at least two changes per day.  There is only rubbish on the TV as in the Summer we are supposed to be in our gardens or at parks enjoying the weather.  I am contemplating upgrading my TV package to add movies.  Depressingly enough next week is the longest sunlight day of the year on 21st June.  At this rate I might have to emmigrate somewhere.

The Olympic Torch

Yesterday I watched the Olympic Torch go by.  Now the Olympics does not really excite me, but to be part of watching the torch go by was amazing.  The atmosphere was electric. The streets were lined with people waving flags.  The sun was shining down on us.  It was a great day.

I watched the local news last night and was really emotional about the whole thing.  There was something magical about watching the Torch Bearers running through the streets with crowds of people jeering, each with their own unique story as to why they had been nominated.  These are ordinary people have an extra ordinary moment.  A moment they will never forget.  One of my friends was a Torch Bearer.  I can only imagine the elation she must have felt doing it.  I can not wait to see her to find out how she felt.  I am not sure if all the other countries that have held the Olympic have done this, but it really is far reaching and makes you feel involved and part of a once in a life time experience. 

I shall be staying away from London during the games as it sounds like it is going to be chaotic.  I just hope the predictions that there will be 3 hour queue's to get onto the tubes are wrong.  It was exhausting standing out in the heat, but well worth it.  Aparently Didier Drogba was on one of the buses that went by with the parade.  Not knowing who he is, I would not of recognised him if he passed me in the street!

Hose Pipe ban!

Everytime the words hose pipe ban are said, it rains continously for weeks and weeks.  It has been contiously raining on and off now for about 6 weeks, right after they said those words.  It is an absolute joke.  Why do the Water companies not concerntrate on fixing the mahoussive leaks in the old pipes and stop giving their fat cats big bonuses.  Simply that will sort the problem out.  They are saying if we do not get sufficient rainfall this year we will be having stand pipes in the street next year.  What grates on me is that the water companies will still want to be paid every month for their poor service. 

This consistent rain is making everyone so tired and a little bit miserable.  I am fed up with it.  Someone pointed out the other day that it is only about a month until it is 21st June and then the daylight starts to get shorter!  We need a decent Summer, just a few months of sunshine.  I have been acting strangely and can not stop buying Summer dressess.  I know ludicrous, will I ever get to wear any of them.  Some people have said I have jinxed it.  I only bought 6!!!!!! 

Then there is some folk who said they feel it in their bones that we are going to have a good Summer.  As traditionally, April and May are good and then it rains in July and August.  I hope they are right.  I look at the lanterns you can have in your garden on a hot Summer's evening and think, absolutely no point in buying them.  Garden furniture is a complete waste of time.  If it continues like this there will be some good sales on!  But what is the point buying it, as it will only rot in the garden.

All together bring on the Summer, will it to us!

Fashion Targets Breast Cancer Campaign

This Monday was the launch of Fashion Targets Breast Cancer Campaign. This year’s collection has taken on a patriotic British theme. We have some amazing British brands on board including M&S, Debenhams, Topshop, River Island and Laura Ashley. Each item carries a minimum 30% donation to Breakthrough Breast Cancer’s life-saving work. By rallying together in style, buying the products and helping to raise vital funds we can make a difference to people affected by the disease.

There are lots of different elements to the campaign this year as detailed below.

Fashion Products

Here’s the link to this year’s Fashion Targets Breast Cancer lookbook which details all of the products in our collection this year and the details of where they can be brought.

http://fashiontargetsbreastcancer.org.uk/lookbook/

FTBC launches on 30^th April. It’s the UK’s biggest charity fashion campaign and helps to raise money for pioneering charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer.

FTBC 2012 has three trends –Rainbow Fields, Royal Affair and Postcard Promenade – channelling iconic British past times and letting women chose the way they wear their support.

My favourite in the look book is the red Coast dress, very Victoria Beckham!

So come on and get involved, I am off to the shops!