As some of you may know already, mum's been in hospital twice in the past month as a result of some quite scary bouts of illness. Well, they were scary for me, she was off with the fairies both times and doesn't remember a thing! Apparently she had both a lung and a urinary infection both of which seem to be cleared up now; at least, I hope they are. She's still in hospital but there is hope that she may return home tomorrow.

All this has, I'm afraid left me somewhat incommunicado and also impossibly unreliable in terms of keeping appointments and the like. So my apologies to those of my friends who have been put out by all this and hopefully normal service will be resumed shortly.