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• by Lucy Diamond May 14, 2007
  DreamsNow here you go againYou say you want your freedomWell who am I to keep you downIts only right that you shouldPlay the way you feel it…So singeth Stevie Nicks in the song, "Dreams", from one of my favourite all-time albums – "Rumours".Robyn started a thread in the forums re...

• by Lucy Diamond May 10, 2007
  Deposit paid, flights booked, I’m on my way…You have to send payment in advance via bank transfer for Dr Suporn, so I did all that today. After filling in a lengthy form and waiting for it to be scrutinised I asked how much their charges were. Twenty quid they said. Bloody hell, it’s about 7 quid at...

• by Lucy Diamond April 28, 2007
  QuickieThe Suporn Clinic have emailed me back (on a Saturday!) and provisionally booked me in for the end of September. As long as I pay the deposit within 30 days, I have a date!Five months and counting…Woo-hoo!xx

• by Lucy Diamond April 25, 2007
  Like waiting for a busYou wait ages for a blog then 3 come along at once…I emailed the Suporn clinic on Monday to enquire about available dates for my SRS and tracheal shave, still waiting for a reply but I understand it normally takes a few days. I kind of thought that if I started making enquiries...

• by Lucy Diamond April 23, 2007
  Blood from a stoneWell I just rang the gender clinic again requesting copies of my last 2 blood test results. Usual response – "Oh we don’t normally send them to patients…"Each time I’ve had the tests though the consultants have promised that they would arrange for them to be sent to me, a...

• by Lucy Diamond April 21, 2007
  Shaping upI bought some pistachio nuts the other day, on the back of the packet it said, "Allergy advice – may contain traces of nuts". Well, Duhh. They’re nuts for Christ’s sake. You couldn’t make it up…My mum and her old mate, Gilly came over for dinner last night. We all got far too dru...

• by Lucy Diamond February 25, 2007
  There, but for the grace of the goddess, go IThe day after getting back from London I turn on the news to hear of a serious rail crash, amazingly it’s about a mile from where I live, as the crow flies. Had I stayed in London another day I would probably have been on the train behind the one that cra...

• by Lucy Diamond January 17, 2007
  New year, new me (or: It’s the end of the world as we know it)The Christmas and New Year celebrations continued to overrun as Pip paid me a visit, and we spent the weekend eating, drinking and being merry, like you do. Lovely to see him again, and Pippa actually, for the first time in quite a while ...

• by Lucy Diamond January 5, 2007
  Party, Party, Party!2007 is upon us. Just in case you hadn’t noticed…It’s been a fairly busy Christmas period for me, lots of parties and meals out and turkey and pudding and wine and general revelry, with a few gigs thrown in for good measure. I have another party to go to tomorrow night (oh god, a...

• by Lucy Diamond December 6, 2006
  One ring to rule them all…Or one keyboard perhaps? My new keyboard arrived a day late, as I was slightly expecting. What I didn’t expect was for it to arrive slightly faulty. After paying so much this was a bit disappointing. Things went from bad to worse after sending it back, the replacement not a...