Saturday 28 November - still waiting for a bed for the next lot of chemo

So, I found out what the plant was (thanks Steve and no 2 daughter Sarah's reverse Google imagesearch) - a tillandsia cyanea.  It is still flowering.
I am still at home waiting for a bed at Addenbrookes for my 3 day chemo blast.  They have had a lot of emergencies so getting a bed on either of the haematology wards is not easy.  (I can't complain about the emergencies - after all I was one at the end of July).  I wouldn't want to have the Oncology Bed Manager's job for all the tea in China.  It must be a nightmare.
Anyway, while I have been waiting I have done useful things like start cutting back the beech hedge - it needs cutting back quite fiercely so it is definitely a secateurs and clippers job.  Luckily I can reach the top from the taller stepladders.  I've done about the first 6 ft so I should be able to work my way along it by the spring!  I've also been making Christmas cards - very therapeutic. 
Andrew has put the tree lights up for Advent - lovely.  On Tuesday we can put the wreath out and put the wooden Advent calendar out.  It's a Traidcrft one that you add figures to every day.