8th November 2026

 

           Dear All,

After our swim on Monday we called on Merv to check him after his thyroid op last week and being Merv he was just unloading after a trip to Tesco’s. Switch forward to Friday and his wife Pat was in for an op for a prolapse that she had been waiting for 2 years. She had been in the hospital for 5 hours and was all ready when the op was cancelled due to an emergency and she was sent home!

World War 1 this week covered the Dardanelles Campaign which of course was badly planned and led to Churchill’s forced resignation and up to 135,000 fatalities.

I was called in for more post op blood tests on Thursday before another physio session.

Biographies topic was a little known Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland who came up with an explanation of the Northern Lights.

 

 

Kristian Birkeland

 

On Saturday we returned to Hutton to help Esther catch up in the garden as she has not had much time to spare with her serious nursing duties. We managed to make a considerable difference as the before and after shots show.

 

 

Before

 

 

After

 

After

 

 

Before

 

After

 

Emma still has considerable pain and ironically her mother who lives nearby tripped on an uneven pavement and broke her patella and is in pain on crutches.

Andy started a new job this week for an UK company which will mean less travelling and more company after years of working at home.

Best wishes

 

Mike & Kate