Halloween night out - by mummy.

Saturday night had arrived!!! I dropped Blake off at my mum's for his 3rd ever night away from home. Graham and I had pizza and onion rings before getting ready to go out on our seperate nights out. I was going out in our hometown for my friend Gemma's birthday and Graham was heading to Loughborough for our friend Joey's birthday. I was a little gutted I wasn't going out with the lads especially because Gemma and co were all getting ready together and not heading in town until 10pm. And as much as i love them to bits i dont really do the girly stuff. However once I was all dressed up as a dead school girl (Gemma's birthday theme was dead school) I headed over to Maria's for some pre drinks. Maria and co were all devils so i did feel a bit weird being a school girl, but I was feeling pretty good about myself. Some nights I'm bursting with confidence, and tonight was one of them nights!

 The fake blood seemed to take forever to dry and I smudged alot of it so wound up taking alot off! I had a good night except for some random bloke grabbing my ass, i warned him not to so when he decided to ignore me and do it any way I couldn't help but punch the twat! He definately was not expecting that!!

Graham enjoyed his night out in Loughborough for Joey's birthday. So much so that he barely text me...

Joey (left) Graham (right)

....might have had something to do with the fact they wound up in a  foam party. :-D

Entertainment at work - by mummy

Working in a chipshop could be really lame. But I enjoy it. My boss is more like my best friend and every 1 else that works there are a great bunch too. It gets very busy and hot and stressful, but then it can also be pretty quite especially in the cold dark nights, every 1 comes in earlier so towards the end of the night it might get pretty boring. My boss is good at keeping up a good atmosphere but when he's about I tend to get going. Last night I saw my opportunity...

Then my boss saw his opportunity to take my idea further...

Just remember boys and girls, work doesn't have to be something we have to go to, it can be something we look forwards to going to...

My friend Richard - by Mummy

I am going to tell you all about my friend Richard, I hope he doesn't mind. He's a very special friend of mine and is an amazing person. But you know the saying 'bad things happen to good people' well he is a perfect example. His brother is Alan who you may have heard me mention, but he is not to be confused with Blake's godfather as that is a different Richard. Alan and Richard lost their father just a few weeks ago. He died of cancer after being diagnosed around April 2010.


The thing is, Richard also has cancer, he was diagnosed around June 2009. I met Richard properly in May 09 at a car show and we clicked immediately. I remember him complaining of not feeling too well, now we know why! Richards chemotherapy started and his hair fell out a little, we all used to joke about the fact that he had a smooth bum. He always managed to make every one else laugh and smile even when he was feeling like crap. After finishing his treatment it was a bit of a waiting game to see if it had cleared, but he could live a fairly normal life... which meant going out and getting pissed... and the silly sod ended up breaking his foot/leg. When the results came back and he wasn't clear it was a shock to every body, but he managed to stay positive and just looked forwards to his treatment to finish again. This time around the chemo made him more poorly, it was alot more intense, he stayed in alot more.


Richard was in hospital when Blake was born, he had just had a stem cell transplant. He was desperate to meet Blake so we were all delighted when we could go visit him. Blake was 3 days old. He looked so tiny next to Richard, especially because he's a bit of a BFG at over 6ft tall!

It was great to see Richard, he was still so happy and bubbly and it was hard to believe that he had cancer.

Today I went to see Richard, unfortunately he still isn't clear. He has just been informed he has to have another stem cell transplant. This time everything will be even more intense and he will be stuck at home for at least 6 months after spending 6 weeks isolated in hospital. This sucks. I'm so gutted for him and I can tell he's really had enough now... His bubbles seem to have popped! However I am glad Blake seemed to put a smile on his face plenty of times, he is a little rascal after all. I wish I could do or think of something that would bring Richards bubbles back. He knows hes got a tough couple of years ahead of him so I will now be racking my brains to find a solution.

This is also inspiring me to do more for cancer research, think its about time they found a solution. I don't want Richard to suffer any more. He's too nice. He deserves to live a normal life with his girlfriend, friends and family. If only I was god and could put this right...