Doing what you LOVE to do - before, during & after BC! What's YOUR favourite?

tigerbeth

@Stork & @Joannie  I am happy to help with advice on planning a trip to Africa, we went Tanzania & I organised our trip with a local company.
we haven't been to Rwanda but it's on my bucket list too !!
happy to answer any questions here or just PM me 

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arpie

Yep, this is me!

Blossom1961

I love having people over for a meal. I love going to the theatre. I love food. I enjoy doing jigsaw puzzles and reading but struggle to stop either until they are completed so end up with some very late nights. I absolutely adored travelling around Australia but we had to come back home when we ran out of money, then my FIL got Melanoma and my MIL needed support after his death and then I got BC. I am planning our next trip but this little side 'adventure' called BC has caused our business to go belly up so the next trip will have to be a two year work stop and then we will move on to the next place and do the same thing. I am getting very antsy so am willing the next eight months of Herceptin to fly by.

arpie

Terrific, @Blossom1961 - keep doing what you can with the resources you have ..... after completing your treatment, you should be able to do all those things again!    

Yes, it is a bitch of a disease that keeps moving the goal posts!  grrrr

Take care & all the best with your continuing treatment xx

kitkatb

Fishing is my passion as well as painting.  Have lost my mojo at the moment for the painting but I know it will come back.  Have been contemplating a series of really bright linocut greeting/birthday cards and have been working on their design at the moment.  Fishing I would never get sick of but have not been out in the boat since BC reared its bloody ugly head. 
 ( Just thinking about bouncing around in the boat as it moves makes me grab my chest LOl  ) 

Zoffiel

Taking the big holiday box up to the high country, setting up next to a creek and catching dinner.

arpie

@kitkatb  - YAY!  Another fishing tragic!    AND it looks like you are in a comp there - which one?

Where is your home base (roughly)??   I reckon that with @Brenda5, you & me, we could have a 'Team Breasties'!!  

My Dr's advice to you, would be to get out on that boat & get back into it - at least 2 a week (if you are physically able to do it!)   As soon as I was able push & pull my kayak - I was back 'into it' a month or 2 after my surgery - and I seriously reckon it has been an integral part of my recovery & more positive outlook on life.  (And my uke playing - I was back to that 2 weeks after surgery!)

AND, some states have a "Casting for Recovery" Fly Fishing program .... where those with BC are taught how to fly fish by experts - taken to great locations & loaned all the stuff you need to do it - waders, rods, flies etc and hopefully you will catch your first trout on fly! .....

I am currently in discussion with a couple of people for doing a Salt Water version here in the Mid North Coast area of NSW with some of the BEST fly fishos in Australia keen to jump on board as instructors!  WATCH THIS SPACE!  So far, I've caught bream & whiting on fly (my biggest bream was caught on a topwater fly I made up myself - so doubly chuffed!)   Flatties remain elusive!




My own design for my topwater popper .... it works a treat!


This was my first 'decent bream' in the mid 30s ... on a bought topwater fly


After hearing about the OTIS Foundation this year, I've got my name down (hopefully for the Jindabyne House ..... still waiting to hear when it may be available!)  

Hang in there, girl ..... get back to your fishing & you won't look back!  xxxx  If you were over here, I'd have you in my other Hobie kayak (pedal) - it is just SO much easier than lugging boats around!!

Take care  xx

Zoffiel

I reckon every trout I catch costs me about $50. At least one lost spinner, beer, fuel and snacks. Worth every penny

arpie

YAY! @Zoffiel ...  Another Fishing tragic - feel free to join Team Breasties!    ...... yeah - More like $100+ ....  but the $ doesn't count, does it!?   It is the fun & skill in getting the little suckers to take something fake that they only 'think' looks like food!     (And we are not wasting it on gambling or other useless pursuits!)   

Annie C

Ladies, there is nothing in this world that comes close to a day spent by the river at Telegraph Pool, or Langie  Crossing or out at Poultons Pool chasing a barra while keeping an eye out for the crocs.

Annie C

Damn I have just realised I have given away my "secret spots"!

Blossom1961

@Annie C No need to worry. The word Crocs will keep most of us away.

Annie C

@Blossom1961
The crocs and I have an understanding - I keep out of their bathwater and they keep out of my shower!

Just wish the big green tree frogs have the same understanding with the toilet!

Blossom1961

@Annie C I loved the green tree frogs when we were up North. And they certainly loved toilet bowls. I remember a backpacker screaming in the toilet next to mine. I ran over where she stood outside the door pointing and babbling. There was the lovely green tree frog she had just sat over. She flushed the toilet and that is when it jumped out at her. Sorry, I laughed.
Mataranka was an interesting spot too. I sat on the toilet and felt something tickling my butt. I stood up, nothing there, I sat down, tickle tickle, I stood up, nothing there. I finished then flushed the toilet. Out came a HUGE spider. After the initial shock, I thought it was funny. None of the other ladies in camp were amused by my story!