Marian came out of hospital on Monday night, and, to use her own words, is "a bit weak and watery". As flyingcat said yesterday, it's going to take her quite a while to recover, as her bout of shingles was extremely severe, so she'll be taking it easy for quite a while. Needless to say, she was quite surprised to hear that she'd been the subject of discussion in this place (!), and has asked me to thank everyone for their good wishes and concern and for the cards which she has received while in hospital. She sounds chirpy (considering her circumstances), and frustrated at not being able to attend several events that she had had lined up. I read out the messages on the thread so far to her, but at that point the messages from Growler and Dead Horse hadn't materialised... I'll let her know!! :-)

irene