Hi Johno, Loved hearing your voice again Johno, I really miss our phone calls, but at least still get to talk to Miss Mary and Cathy for updates occasionally. Glad to hear things are improving for you at long last and hope they continue to do so, also that you get a long bout of an Indian Summer [why is it called an Indian one??] so you can get some more outings from it. Like you I too am on some antibiotics and a doubling up on one of my BP tablets as I have also gone down with a lousy infection which has been playing havoc with my Blood Pressure ~ a few times over the 200 for the systolic ~~ the Lower one is usually always in between 55 - 68; lucky for me the Sciatica has died down to dull aches and some painful sections up on the outside thigh it has only thankfully effected the right leg, excruciatingly painful even when laying down if I had been asked what scale of 1 to 10, I couldn't have played it downwards, would have been 20. Wondering at the moment if I will be called back to the doc's before my appt. of Wednesday, I hope not as I have a 8.30 am one so hopefully I might be the first in and out, just being in the waiting room sends my BP up, always there too early and then go in later than my time slot & of course the white coat syndrome. I think that what is needed is a 2009 UK reunion seems most of UK based and me partly based UK Trivvies are in need of Big Trivvie Hugs and next June /July will be when the pre quiet Gen-Trivia site was suddenly invaded by a lot of Fam History folk who needed to put 'Meat on the Bones of our ancestors' so it will be OUR busy 10th Anniversary and alas it has been a long long 2 years without a big UK Reunion, I have really missed them, and it is possible maybe there will be others from other parts of the world that may be able to make it over there. Love and Hugs Marlene ^*~^*~^*~^*~^*~^*~^*~^*~^ From: Johno Hello Val The temps you are experiencing I am afraid I could not tolerate these days. Even your cool 25C would be a bit warm for me. At the moment we are having a very cold spell. Temps are about 9 or 10. All seems to be going well now. The chest is improving on the antibiotics, the nose is fine and the computer is working well. So it is happy sailing until Christmas...<grin>. Thanks for your message. I love to get messages to hear how you are all doing. I managed to get out to Watford on Saturday morning. I really do like going to that place. While the girls do the shopping, I sit in a chair and watch the world go by. It is a funny old world sometimes when I look around me, and as Cathy often remarks it is a "funny old world". Cherrio for now Val, warmest wishes from Johno