Had a lovely couple of hours wandering around Worcester Gardens at Oxfords University.

Hilary's sister Allison is a gardener there and tends to all the flowers/plants/shrubs etc..grows plums/apples/tomatoes/cucumbers in the green houses.  The weather was looking awful first thing but we got there at 12 and between 12 and 2 there was lots of sun for us and when we sat in amongst the apple trees to have our lunch my knees were actually burning in the heat!

Sadly, I came home to news that Kathy one of the Mum's from school has roughly 2 days left..she's in Adelaide ward at RBH (the best place to be as they are just fantastic on that ward IMO).  It's really shocked me as although she had been told she had liver progression about a month or so ago, I really didn't expect this to happen so soon. She did look weak when I last saw her but just thought that was due to the chemo she had been on.

I was talking to her not long ago about 'the end' and she said she just hadn't faced up to it and didn't want to think about it...unlike me..

Very scary times..seem to be losing all those who were diagnosed same time as me (Paula and Neila last year).

So not feeling too chipper after a lovely morning...I don't often ask why but WHY WHY WHY???? - to leave a small child without a Mummy is just cruel...

***Kathy died this afternoon after a long battle, first in 1998 and then again since 2006..so sad for all who knew her she was a lovely lady***

Love Clare xx