Wowwwwwwwwwwwww !!!!!!!!!

   Bit lost for the right words.

   How kind of you - I'm heartened, and just momentarily surprised. What. meeee? So thanks. And more thanks.

   it's been about this technology thing. I've changed telephone and on-line provider . and it's been a slog to get a phone and email back.

   i confess to compounding the problem by mislaying the note from the post office that they had a parcel for me to collect - the new modem (still don't know what that does exactly, just roughly, so please save your precious fingers for the real stuff.)

   Still got one glitch left to sort.

   Plus I haven't worked out how I resume as Autolycus on the 'cat given that I have a different email address and server. I've obviously missed the obvious or am just not up to that sort of thing or I'm too lazy. (If you think the last, please take the appropriate course of inaction.)

   The whoe experience (or whole - whatever) has offered me some lessons. And it's sorted thanks to your good wishes (many appreciations, ***daylia*** - she's something else,isn't she, folks?), my Mars in persistant Taurus (ahem), and playing Mahler's 6th. That always wreaks considerable consequences (did I write that?) each time I play it. (I feel a new thread coming on.)

   Brw, I'm in good health (teeth apart), helped produce two spiffing young women,(one with her boyfriend here in sunny Norwich, theother in Coalville in Leicestershire), have a cholesteral test each year (which I last brought down using only cholesteral-lowering margerines), and was last at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital for a cateract op. Scariest thing I ever experienced.

   Your good wishes will be some of my spiritual food for quite a while to come.




       Ivor

   I will do my best not to worry anyone, except in heavy debates.