What Goes On In My Heed!!!

Just seen the F1 qualifying replay, good luck to Lewis for tomorrow.

In the meantime, I found this on Freaking News...now this is one space race I WOULD LOVE to see

See ya!!!

I am sitting here and can hardly hear a thing

Been like it since Saturday night and it's so bad that I ended up going to the local Royal Infirmary. Without going into too much detail (as it IS teatime) my ears are clogged up. I'm now having to put drops in and take antibiotics.

I'll tell you one thing...I can really sympathise with people whom have a permanent hearing loss...this is scary...and mine's only temporary (I think)

Figures from the world of sport and television will attend the funeral of inspirational charity fundraiser Jane Tomlinson later.

The hour-and-45-minute service at St Anne's Cathedral in Leeds follows the death of the 43-year-old mother-of-three who last week lost her seven-year battle with terminal cancer.

Lord Mayor of Leeds Brian Cleasby will lead a substantial civic representation with the Lord-Lieutenant of West Yorkshire Dr Ingrid M Roscoe and High Sheriff of West Yorkshire Gay Hartley.

Streets around the Catholic cathedral will be closed as crowds gather to watch the service celebrated by the Rt Rev Arthur Roche, Bishop of Leeds, on a screen in the city's Millennium Square.

Having defied doctors who gave her just months to live after her diagnosis in 2000, Jane raised more than £1.75 million through a series of gruelling endurance events.

In June 2003 she was awarded the MBE for her work and she was made a CBE four years later.

Since her cancer was diagnosed as terminal in 2000 she defied her illness - and often doctors' orders - to raise money for charities including Sparks and Macmillan Cancer Support. She was awarded an MBE and then a CBE.

Among many feats, she cycled 1,905 miles from Rome to Leeds for charity, became the first person in the world to run a marathon on chemotherapy and rode 4,238 miles across America.

Taking on challenge after challenge, even after retiring from charity work, the mother-of-three found strength in running and cycling as her six month sentence turned into seven years.

Through a series of gruelling feats of endurance, which saw her become the first person in the world to run a marathon on chemotherapy, she raised more than £1.5 million for a series of charities close to her heart.

Courageous, bloody-minded and boldly honest, it was the unfailing support of her three children and 45-year-old husband, Mike, that helped keep her alive.

Her last big challenge was a 6781.8km ride across America - a far cry from her first race which was a 5km Race For Life in May 2001.

Born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, on February 21, 1964, she married Mike in the mid-80s and together they built a home for themselves in Rothwell, Leeds, living the life of any normal Yorkshire family.

But in July 1990 Mrs Tomlinson was diagnosed with breast cancer, underwent a mastectomy and had the lymph nodes under her arms removed.

Two months later she started a three-year study programme at Leeds Teaching Hospitals to become a radiographer and, in June 1993, she qualified and started work.

Soon afterwards, she discovered the cancer had re-occurred in the tissue around the breast and underwent a course of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

The couple went on to have Steven, who was born in 1997, before she started postgraduate study in paediatric radiography two years later.

But on August 31, 2000 she was told she had advanced metastatic breast cancer, which was incurable. Doctors told her the spread of the disease was extensive and she was only expected to live for six months.

She began a course of chemotherapy, which finished the following year, and it was only then, in May 2001, that she took part in her first race - a 5km Race For Life.

Whetting her appetite for the sport she then participated in the first 10km Abbey Dash in Leeds that December. The following month her condition worsened and she once again came out of remission as the cancer started to spread in her bones.

Jane refused to let her terminal illness slow her down

Relentlessly continuing with her running, she ran her first half marathon in York, followed by her first "big one" in April - the London Marathon - in a time of 4 hours 53 minutes.

Her courage and determination propelled her into the media eye and in May she was named the Yorkshire Woman of Achievement 2002. In July she presented the Jubilee baton to the Queen at Temple Newsam, Leeds.

Shocking people once more, she became the first terminally ill athlete to complete the London Triathlon, in August 2002, coming 20th in her age group.

During this time her achievements were not solely athletic - she also successfully completed her postgraduate diploma in paediatric radiography.

In October 2002 she ran the Great North Run in 1 hour 51 minutes, even though the cancer had spread further, causing her intense pain throughout her body.

Later the same year, she announced her retirement from charity work "to spend time with her family".

But in 2003 she took on further challenges, becoming the first terminally ill person to cycle from one end of the country to the other, completing the 1,060-mile ride from John O'Groats to Lands End, on a tandem bike with her brother, Luke Goward - all whilst undergoing chemotherapy.

The day after the three-week ride in April, she went on to run the London Marathon for the second time, becoming the first person ever to have completed a marathon whilst still on chemotherapy.

She raised £120,000 in 2002 for Cancer Research UK and a further £250,000 up to September 2003, which was split between Cancer Research UK, Sparks, Hannah House and Leeds Hospital Trust Acute Paediatric Services.

For her achievements, she was granted an MBE in June 2003.

On August 31, she then took on her hardest challenge yet, becoming the first cancer patient not in remission and the first terminally ill person ever to undertake one of the world's hardest challenges, the Gatorade Half Iron Man UK Triathlon.

She finished the mammoth event, which included swimming 1.2 miles, cycling 56 miles and running a half marathon of 13.1 miles, quicker than expected in 6 hours, 37 minutes.

She was well-known as a charity fundraiser

Not content with a marathon, a triathlon, a Half Ironman triathlon and a cross-country bike ride, Mrs Tomlinson ended 2003 by completing the Great North Run in Newcastle on September 21 in 1 hour 51 minutes, four minutes ahead of her husband, Mike.

In June 2004 she finished a gruelling 2,500-mile Rome to Home bike ride in 36 days, before taking on the Gatorade Half Ironman UK Triathlon for the second time in August.

Later that year in November she became the only only cancer patient to complete a full Ironman triathlon - swimming 2.4 miles, riding 112 miles and running 26 miles - in a time of 15 hours 47 minutes, in Florida.

In January 2005, she announced that she had raised £1,150,000 - surpassing her fundraising target of £1 million - and that she was again retiring from fundraising.

But following a course of chemotherapy her health improved and she said she wanted to continue fundraising while she was still able to.

In November 2005, she went on to complete the New York marathon in 5 hours 15 minutes - despite being able to train for only 12 weeks due to her treatment and an injury.

Mrs Tomlinson took a break from fundraising as four courses of chemotherapy in six years led to her suffering chronic heart disease.

But in May 2006 she announced her toughest challenge yet - a 4,200-mile bike ride from San Francisco to New York, enduring temperatures of more than 100F and altitudes of more than 11,000ft along the way.

By the time Mrs Tomlinson completed the feat in Battery Park, New York, it was widely believed to be the greatest endurance feat yet attempted by someone with terminal cancer.

Shortly after returning to the UK she was overjoyed when her daughter, Suzanne, gave birth to her first grandchild, Emily.

Earlier this year she announced she was giving up her major challenges as her health deteriorated further. Later, it emerged that the Tomlinsons had suffered abuse from a small minority of people who questioned whether she was ill at all.

Despite not being able to take part herself, she inaugurated a 10k Run For All event in Leeds, which she hoped will become in annual event.

In June, she watched as 8,000 runners took to the city's streets as the event came to fruition.

The run came just days after she found out she is to receive a CBE to add to her MBE.

In an interview shortly after the announcement of the honour, she said: "The reality is that this will probably be the last summer that I get to spend with my family because of the extent of the disease that I have.

"That's quite difficult to live with and it's quite difficult to stay positive, but you have to put that at the back of your mind so that you can enjoy the summer and that's what I'm going to be trying to do... spending the summer with my family."

She went on: "I've had seven years to contemplate the fact that I'm not going to be around for my family but it doesn't make that end point any clearer, I don't think, and it doesn't make it any easier when you meet it."

Her CBE and MBE were just a part of the national recognition she received which included more than 15 awards for her charity efforts, including the Helen Rollason award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards in 2002 and a Pride of Britain Award in 2005.

Jane's family will attend a private cremation after the service.

I never met her, but as someone whom has lost a parent to cancer, my thoughts are with her family

Goodbye Jane, you were and always will continue to be a tremendous inspiration to a great many people.

Rest in peace

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Don't know what's wrong with my internet today.

It's going very slowly and there are "this page cannot be displayed" messages popping up everywhere. Some programs (e.g. Limewire and Google spelling servers) keep saying that I'm not even connected, it's SO annoying. Makes me think about giving up on it altogether and not having a connection at all.

I'm just so fed up with it all

I've had a small problem with snails in my fish tank for a while now which I have usually dealt with. However I've come in tonight to find that there's been a sudden increase in their number.

Therefore I'm asking anyone if there is a small aquatic animal of some description which I can put in a coldwater tank, likes eating snails but doesn't eat fish?

Believe me if there is, it will be VERY well fed

See ya!!!

Well...

My Yahoo e-mails are going haywire

Some of my Sky channels haven't got a signal

Not been out or going out tonight (there's a first lol)

My computer's beating me severely on every game again

and judging by some of the comments I've written tonight, my brain(?) is going to sleep

I can't even use messenger, that's been knackered for ages

Oh well...may as well go to bed (yes before 11pm)

Goodnight Blogland!!!