Firstly, once again, please excuse me for not going all out pink at you.  I still have mingled feelings about Breast Cancer Awareness.  It seems to come round Very Quickly each year.  Just remember.  Many of the products sold to raise money for cancer charities have been conceived to make even more money for the company selling them: the benefit to the charity is miniscule compared with the benefit to the company.  If you need whatever it is (such as the bottle of plant food I acquired one year, since I needed plant food), and would buy it anyhow, then you may as well get the pink version.  Otherwise, don't bother.  Don't buy into it.  Go and give directly to your favourite cancer charity, and, everyone: GO CHECK YOUR BITS FOR LUMPS (men, you have extra bits to us ladies: check both chesticles and um, testicles...). Not Just About Cancer writes about this pinksplotation much better than I do here.

It's cold, wet, rainy and horrid here.  I've finished some brightly coloured knitting

(Urchin for Mum)

and started some more.

(Baby Surprise Jacket for Alex's son)

I have been out and about, madly, all week, mostly with my Daddy.  I have another busy week next week: we shall go and see John Barrowman sing, and then to see Samuel West and Timothy West in A Number.  Oh yes.  And Jo's moving back in again, and I have morris practise, and at some point I hope to see A.  It would be nice.  There carnations he bought me are still looking really rather pretty.

I've had a conversation on the phone with the girl who's going to design Em's memorial: she sounds lovely, and she's called Olivia.  She's going to come down and visit us, and the Guides, on Friday.

But first, a list... for it is nearly the weekend.

• Laundry
• Go through the mail
• Visit the proposed site of Em's memorial with her fiancé and dad
• Go for a run
• Sort out stuff for Senior Section Weekend (Bath Bombs, Quilting, Ceilidh)
• Visit from the First Aider for said weekend, to sort out the first aid stuff.
• Rugby 1pm Sunday (drag huge bag of STUFF for rugby with me)
• Put clean sheets on Jo's bed
• Eat sausages (Marks and Spencer's now do gluten free sausages. I have venison and pork-and-apple to try.  They were on special offer).
• Supermarket shop
• Tidy the sitting room, my bedroom
• Make a more concerted effort to book somewhere for Pack Holiday
• Hem the towels
• Keep on with the Baby Surprise Jacket and the Drifted Pleats Scarf.
• Remember what on earth it is that I've forgotten....See below
• Fair Isle Design
• Brownies Accounts

xxx