This last week has gone by so quickly and I am still enjoying being back at work - well sort of!!! There may be a bit of pressure on this week - a near impossible deadline to be achieved by 22nd June. This will mean extra hours and possibly weekend work. A year ago this would not have been a problem but have decided 'no way Jose!!' Happy to maybe put in an extra hour each day - but hey. Also have been thinking. I am a worrier - used to be about work, then about anything (primarily 'the return') and now again about work and 'the return'.

I think most of you know my story with my 83yr old dad with oesophageus cancer. Well tonight I spoke to him and he can't breath. My daughter and I are going up this week to pick him up and bring him down here with me for a week. Now he is ready to come and live with me as I think he knows he hasn't much time left but I cannot get another 12mth lease and that leaves us both in limbo. Also my brother rang tonight and I know he loves dad so much but he is saying to me as my kids are that maybe it is time for pop to go but I can't and won't accept that.

I was reading an article titled "Barred from screening" which went into why the government recommends free breast screening for older women only. The jist of it was that there was a higher risk of false positives in the testing of women aged 40 -49, no mention of women under 40. That at the end of the day it was an economic and resource issue, not enough doctors and not enough machines, even though the participation rate among the target group was 14% lower than aimed for.