First bit
Thank you all for your kind words and well wishes.  I am feeling much better now.  I still have an annoying cough but even that is improving at last.  It was a very persistent virus!  Everybody I know that’s had it, in one form or another,  has had it for about a month.
Second bit
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You may well ask where I’ve been lately.  The answer would be “Precisely nowhere”  I am still coughing for England, not sleeping at night because of the coughing – even though I am sleeping (or not) sitting up.  I’m going through tissues faster than I would like, because we are STILL snowed in, with no [...]

We are knee deep in snow here.  At least when you are the height of Mo and I, it’s knee deep.  It looks beautiful, though I am aware it has brought with it absolute mayhem on the roads, railways and airports.  It looks beautiful here in Yorkshire.  I am so sad because I would have [...]

How could we, in the UK, have this much snow and me not write a post about it?  It’s the most snow we’ve had in many years, and I have missed it so much.  When I was young we often had heavy snow and had great fun with snowball fights and building snowmen.  Sadly, in [...]