Sorry to have missed all this and not been able to send Michelle good wishes earlier - I hope recovery continues apace. Not being in school much any more (the acting head having decided I am too expensive to employ any more) I also missed out on a colleague who is now under treatment for the same thing. She went in for chemo last Tuesday, and will be operated on after two more sessions.
I haven't moved into the new place yet. At last I had the new garage door just before Christmas, no time to move in before that. Then I found a leak from the cold tank in the airing cupboard, which has cost me a good deal, and the plumber found the fuse box was dangerous and needed replacing, too. That's Tuesday, along with a locksmith fitting sensible security between the garage and the house - at present it has a "My first little lock and key" to keep it shut. A Roman with a wooden lock would laugh at it. Monday, the broadband connection will be activated! And I will ring the removal man to set a date. When that's done, I'm going over to my Dad's old place to do more to get things moving - we've left it rather a long time.
I've moved three wiggly shaped mirrors from the bathroom to the fence at the end of the garden, but will need to fix them so they reflect the garden, and not the side of the house for the best effect. The old tank will be dug into the place all the water gathers as a pond - perhaps -it's a bit bigger than it looked in the cupboard.
But all this seems a bit trivial compared with Michelle and my friend Maria.