[OldDragon (OP)]

Hope you've had your results by now, Karen and that they were positive news. I've been thinking of you.

Have been incredibly busy lately, and still am. There seems no end to it all, but, if not managing to get through things at my usual pace, am keeping steadily busy. A bit like wading uphill through a lake of treacle and an element of an obstacle course materialising each time one blinks! []

Had the last chemo yesterday, and have had some nasty, dry skin problems, although one of the TRPD group members who has a website selling various cosmetics and things sent me a stack of super handcreams to try. One in particular is a  Herbal one formulated for really bad, chapped, cracked and dry skin, and that seems to be doing the trick! It's quite greasy, but my hands soon absorb it, the state they are in, and there must be something in the recipe - an essential oil or something - that is also easing the arthritic aches in my fingers and thumbs, now we have much  colder, frosty weather here. Rabbits on the hills must be keeping warm down in their burrows, as the local foxes have been raiding allotments in daylight hours and killing poultry. They had five of mine the other day, and came back earlier today and took another eleven, including two young ducks that were laying well. I only have four ducks, two drakes and six hens left uninjured, and three birds I found that look like they won't make it through the night, they  were so traumatised, if only seemingly slightly injured. The allotment looked as if it has been snowed on, with all the white feathers, although further down I came across more darker ones, but only four bodies remained, so the fox must have killed and returned for more of the bodies.