Hi there - mid afternoon Monday October 3 and I have just reread my blog from early May. It reminded me that Elaine has been putting up with this since then and probably from very early in the year. Wow that is an awful lot of pain! But she has stayed functional and positive all the time which is not a bad effort at all. Obviously it has affected me too but only in my activities, she has of course borne the brunt of it.

The up side of it all is that I have learned to cook, clean, etc and have caught up a few projects that have been sitting in the wings for some time. Such as getting my trumpet (90 years old and in my care for 63 of those years)  out, polished and making noise again. The other job is that I am about halfway through putting my blog from the last couple of years into book. Private book only I am not making any attempt to go past my personal edification in the future when I am old and doddery.