Sorry that I have been missing in action. Hugs to you Sins. You have people around you to offer love and support because you give so much of the same.

Linn, may you have a smooth and undelayed trip home, and even in your time of double sadness, may you hold the love and caring you got and gave among family and old friends close around you.

Tam, I hope you feel the loving energy of all our care and concern wrapped around you like a warm, soft fleece that you can reach out and hug to yourself on the worst days, offering comfort and at least some hearts-ease even when there is little physical ease to be had.

Thank you, Nigel, for your lovely gift.

maeve, pull up here a minute to the warmth around the galley stove and let me bring you a cup of tea. Put your feet up, just a little while, and rest here among friends who cherish you.

Up Spaw.

Stilly, I am so pissed off for you. Absolutely fuming. Not words of comfort, I know. Just what I am feeling.

Pete and Pete, Wendy, Chantylass, Gnu, Ranger, Sandra, and all who sail along here, thank you and hugs to you.

A motley and also hearty crew, all of us doing our best to live life on life's terms and not only helping one another to stay afloat, but moving a fine ship along such that it's sails sometime gleam in the sun and wind. The Old Ark's A'Movin