Pete Bate

I'm four chemo tablets into today and feeling pretty good, considering. The sun is spilling between the part-closed curtains into the spare room, my 'Fall' playlist is swirling out of a blue-tooth speaker, and the only side affects I currently feel are a warm wooziness in my head and lead-lined heaviness in my body. It's been an interesting six weeks since I hopped back aboard the chemo train following an 18-month break. Overall, this treatment - which includes ten days of Lonsurf chemo...

This week has had that in-between season feel: I'm peeling open chocolate Christmas coins while the roofer on the house opposite works in...

It's been many months since I've felt the urge to capture a day in words before it fades into a sea of memories. Wednesday was one of...