It’s hard to know just how much to share when writing a blog.  Planet Penny is meant to be a happy place, and who wants to visit Blogland for a spot of light relief and be confronted by a lot of moaning?

So I usually stick with the highlights, the colourful and the jolly alongside fun things to share, and from all your lovely comments over the years it seems to be a mix which works.

But I’m not super woman, and sometimes it’s a toss up between being less than upbeat and not writing at all.  And not writing really bothers me, so for better or worse, here I am.

Occasionally I mention I have M.E. . I’ve had it a long time and I’m one heck of a lot better now than I was in the beginning.  Managing it is the key, I’m pretty rubbish at that.  If I’m feeling reasonably well and upbeat I’m liable to rush off after the next exciting ‘thing’ and then go SPLAT.   Life doesn’t arrive in handy bite sized chunks, and I’m damned if I’m going to turn down any ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunities because of it.

I’m a bit ‘SPLAT’ at the moment I’m afraid.  M.E. messes with the immune system so I’ve got various niggly things going on, and topping it  off with rather a lot of an antibiotic which hasn’t agreed with me has meant I’ve been very wimpy and snivelly for the past week or so.  (Tim is very lucky to be in the middle of the North Sea and missing all this!)

But I’m still here!  And that’s good… I’ve got lots of ideas, they’re just going to arrive a bit more slowly for the moment.  The shop’s still running and I’ve just taken delivery of 2 enormous boxes of yarn and I can doing the packing sitting down.

So please bear with me!

If anyone out there ‘in the know’ has any tried and trusted recommendations for vitamins or supplements for boosting the immune system it would be great to hear about it.  Preferably not of the ‘Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog’ variety though…

Thanks for listening, it’s nice to know you’re out there…x