Up The Farway Tree

Busy Bee

It's been quite a busy few weeks hence lack of blogging - always a good sign now!

This is National Transplant Week so I have been trying to help organise some things for that. NHSBT and LLTGL have been working together this year and the theme for the week is around waiting - how people hate to wait and how this compares to those waiting years for the chance of life. Myself, Victoria and Kirsty will be running an organ donor desk this Friday (8th July) at St Enoch shopping centre in Glasgow. NHSBT have been trying to arrange entertainers for locations across the country, with the idea that people can tweet on the day, asking the entertainers to come and amuse them while they wait. In practice I think this might be more difficult that it seems! We are still trying to pull things together and might have some dancers interested for the day. Regardless, us three girls will be there though trying to create some awareness :-) If you are in Glasgow on Friday, pop in - we will be there all day!

On the subject of awareness we are also trying to get online payment sorted for our Halloween Party in aid of The Butterfly Trust. Early bird tickets will be on sale soon, and I will post details once the payment site is live.

I have had a few social things on too, hence my lack of blogging. We were at my friend Jamie's BBQ a couple of weeks ago, which was a great day and despite some rain everyone still seemed to enjoy themselves. This weekend myself, Andrew and Victoria popped through to a fundraiser that a fellow transplant recipient, Gerard, was organising, in aid of LLTGL and the Freeman Hospital. It was a great night with a great atmosphere and I hope they managed to raise a few pennies. We were also at an engagement party on Sunday which was a lovely afternoon, especially due to the fact the sun came out for the day so everyone could sit in the garden.

Me, Gerard, Victoria

Seb has continued his garden adventures and will be very sad to see this tree go. The insurance have agreed to payment so it should be removed within the next 2-3 weeks. Seb will really not know what to do without his climbing frame! Last weekend a neighbour from a few doors down came to the door to ask "You do know your dog is on your shed roof?" to which I replied "yes, he quite likes to go up there" The guy looked a bit bemused and really quite unsure how to respond haha. He just said "oh well, as long as you know he is up there!" It is really quite embarrassing. Another embarrassing Seb incident occurred at the park yesterday. Seb tends to trail behind by at least 100 yards if not more, and when I turned round to see where he was, there he was JOGGING TO HEEL beside some random lady out for a run. She seemed very amused and I reassured her that he wouldn't last very long jogging - she said she wouldn't either. Laughs all round :-)

I will leave you with the cutest picture of a Hedgehog in the garden - we can't get the lawn mower out of the shed, because of the tree, so the garden is currently like a nature reserve. We have foxes, squirrels, a little mouse, LOTS of birds and fledglings and now a hedgehog :-)

p.s I will be back with a National Transplant Week blog within the next few days!