Evening all, I go out for the day and come back to find Sometimes has forced her way into Gig's luggage, leaving no room for me, I will have to play the pointy elbows and tuneless humming card to shift her ! 
OneWay - waiting is so hard, - I'm sorry you are still having to do some more, but at least they are being thorough. A week feels like a long time when you are waiting though.
MAS - good that they are stopping the tablets, you can;t have your hands hurting all the time - are they going to put you on something different?
And well done on all your work - 71 drawings is good going!
Ned - well done to little Ned, he is such a star 
- and yes go for the solo, you have as much right to as anyone else. I bet the people in the choir are fed up of that women always doing it and would welcome someone else having a go.
Oooooh you have fancy chocolates - don't mind if I do thanks very much
gracie arf@ warm knees - cheeky bugger!
And well done to your DD, I know you've said before she has struggled with you being ill, bless her, - so good for her, for doing so well.
I had coffee with a new friend today at her house ( which is a lovely converted barn, with a huge duck pond in the garden with moorhens on it) she has an enormous 19yr old ginger cat, - he was lovely, - and he scrabbled about in her shopping bag, and eventually sat in it looking very pleased with himself- made me laugh!
Then I went to lunch with another friend I normally meet for lunch on thursday and we bumped into 3 other people we know, so all had lunch together - and it turned into a very long session of chat and catching up. But very nice.
We are all planning a holiday together next year - in the Lakes or somewhere scenic, - renting a house and doing artwork and going to tearooms and pubs together - don't know if it will come off, but it sounds fun.
love to all and waving to anyone I've missed x