Thankyou all for your good wishes for our dad, Tam and I are finding things harder to deal with as time goes on, it was nice to see so many familiar faces at the sweeps yesterday not least my god father Dave Grabham and his children who i haven't seen for years, but i agree with most of you that it wasn't the same without my dad ( i could actually walk into a pub where slattery were playing without having a greeting called over the pa which could sometimes be quite embarrasing- however i would have given anything to have been embarrassed yesterday)I hope it won't be too long before we can fly out to see him again but it is extremely difficult with too young children, Val is doing a fantastic job looking after him out there so I know he is in safe hands. love charlottexx