Trip to Nanny Bagshaw's

Top to Bottom - Nanny and Immie, Immie doing her own nebulizer, Drinking from a syringe, visiting Grandad Bagshaw and with Emma and Ben

Now then all,

yet again we all enjoyed another trip, this time down to south to Sunny High Wycombe. We went to see Nanny Bagshaw and family, travelling down on the friday and came back last Monday night. Despite Mummy not being on top form healthwise we still went anyway. Paul (step brother in law - if there is such thing) and myself went off on a freebie to watch Wycombe Wanderers play Boston. Whoa! Riveting stuff, but hey, free food and beer and complimentary tickets won in the local school raffle. 0-0 by the way. I'm thinking Morecambe Fc will be visiting WWFC next season. Any road, Immie had a great time playing with cousins, Emma and Ben. Thanks for looking after her during our visit last Saturday. The rest of the weekend we chilled out and did very little. When you visit Nanny Bagshaw she insists on looking after us and not allowing us to do owt. She won't even let me wash the pots. She insists on putting them in the washer. But I know she doesn't trust me as she thinks I will break them. I think I had a bad run off washing up breaking 2 items about 5 years ago. Anyway, I am not complaining.

Still no news on the gastrostomy. I think we will be trying to go to Alder Hey in Liverpool because we seem to be getting nowhere at Manchester. In another 4 weeks we will be going away again. She is a lucky lassie is Immie. Grandad and Grandma Lillington are treating us to a weekend in Silloth at a caravan park. Now Silloth is at the end of the earth plus an extra 50 miles. Think they should rename the place Sloth! Just hope there are good amusements in the park.

Stay tuned folks.

Bazzer

Hexham Holiday

Hello all,

Had a fantastic time up in Hexham in Northumberland staying at a house called "Fernstone", which is a respite home provided by "Rainbow Trust". It is provided to parents with children who have a life threatening illness or who are terminally ill. We were well looked after by a number of staff over the 5 days, they fed and watered us and even did our washing and ironing. There was an indoor swimming pool that Immie loved and a sauna for me. I'm not into swimming, roasting myself and relaxing in the sauna is more my thing. Can you chill out in a sauna?

We spent the week with another family from Sunderland. Parents Beccy and Mark were there with their 2 kiddies; Lilly and Hannah. Lilly was 4 and Hannah was slightly older than Imogen. Immie had a fab time with Lilly, who doted on her. Unfortunately, Hannah has a rare chromazone disorder and is not able to physically interact. She is a lovely little girl and was clear to see she gave mum and dad a lot of pleasure. Lilly had trouble pronouncing Imogen, she said In ja min, or something like that. So she called her "Little Tinker". In her thick Sunderland accent she would say, "L'il Tinka". She'd say, "Does the L'il Tinka wanna play in the toy room or, "Where's the L'il Tinka?" Sounded funny from a 4 year old. It was nice to see them playing well together. Beccy and Mark were on their honeymoon. I bought them a bottle of bubbly to celebrate, Mark to my amusement sank it all himself and didn't offer me a taster. Cheers mate! I'm not being serious dude.

"Rainbow Trust" is a self finacing charity and everyone involved works very hard to keep the house open. We will be sending our donation soon and will try and do some fund raising for them. A big thanks to all the staff who made us feel very welcome.

This is the second time I have typed this post. My darling wife came in and tried to help put the images in place better than how I had done it. She hit a button and all the text and pics went. I couldn't retrieve it. I'm off now to pin her down and with a continuing action of right palm against left buttock, shall replicate a beautiful sunset across Morecambe Bay. Stayed tuned for images of it here soon. Bye for now.