I have wasted nearly a whole day today taking pictures of my crystal jewellery and hardly any of them have turned out right, they were either out of focus (the zoom has frozen on my camera) or they were too dark, or they disappeared when I used my flash!

Everytime the sun popped out I ran outside and tryed to take some more pictures using natural light I managed to get a couple of good ones but oh it was so annoying! After all that effort I hope someone looks at them now!

Well at least I have got some more energy today that is in itself good news. While I was having the chemo and my energy levels dropped I would spend hours on the couch watching digital telly, I quickly got fed up with the normal set of programmes and moved onto the holiday channel, after that I spent a number of weeks on the cookery channel. We all grew quite fat rapidly during that stage, I really got into baking and would often whip up a victoria sandwich or one of Rachel Allen's tuscan plum tarts, I even had a go at baking soda bread, that reminds me I still have all the ingredients in my cupboard still!

I moved away from the cooking channel after I lost more energy and enjoyed a few more weeks of gardening instead, not the real gardeners programmes but the makeovers, I loved watching them and soon became inspired to do ours. I would lie there sketching different designs out day after day, I even emailed Chris Collins for advice, I was so excited when he replied and said that he would have a think about it, but he must have been too busy as I never heard from him again!

I soon got my husband roped in, poor man, he spent many weekends during Feb and March digging out the beds, replacing the fence and putting up trellis's for me. I would sneak off to garden centres and buy pots and pots of plants! What a transformation, it looks really nice now! The only trouble is now it wont stop raining, so I can only look at it longingly from indoors! Maybe thats just as well as otherwise I wouldn't be spending my day trying to load half decent photos onto ebay!

Maybe I will treat myself to a new camera tomorrow!