>>Actually, still on a medical note, my daughter was admitted to hospital yesterday with appendicitis. The operation is planned for this morning so she may still be home for Xmas day.....
>>Update: Whilst typing I've just heard that she's now in theatre.....
Hope it all went well and that the ongoing advancements in endoscopic surgery allow her home tomorrow.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1