Hi there

Things are beginning to settle down and I'm doing ok,  getting out more and taking short walks.  What's more of a hindrance is that as a result of the operation I have a hernia.  They told me that it would happen that it will be "tidied up" on the final op, but I didn't anticipate just how restrictive it would be. 

A wander around the garden, and my phone takes better close ups than my camera.

 

The apples are nearly ready and its a race as to who gets them first, the weevils or us.  At the moment its about even

What looks ok from the outside is different when you cut it open.

With plenty of time for reading I have just finished this book.  Its an edited extract of diary entries written for the Mass Observation project and covers the years 1945 to 1948.  These diaries were kept by ordinary folk and the book has focused on 5 people throughout  those years.  I found it fascinating to read what people thought about events at the time  and also how they lived. 

There's more about the Mass Observation project here 

Having a break.

Snippets from the garden.

 

I'm going into hospital on Wednesday [14th July] for an operation so I wont be posting for a while and in case I cant reply to your comments I have turned them off temporarily.

The background to the operation is that as a result of the bowel screening programme they found a tumour which has to be removed, and this operation is the first part of my treatment plan.

 It was a big blow because as a result of the lock downs I was really fit and feeling as good as I did at 50.    Ironically thats has been part of my problem as initially I found it very hard to come to terms with it,  and its only in the last couple of weeks that I've been out and about.  The mind is a powerful thing  but luckily my wife, family and friends have been very supportive so I'm very very lucky there.

Take care.