Korey

My grandson Korey is crawling and has been for just over a week now, which I find totally amazing as he is only 21 weeks old.

He is one of the happiest babies I have ever known, he is smiling almost non stop. He has been known to cry of course but thats usually because one of us idiot adults has held him the wrong way or done something stupid like take a toy away before he got bored with it. He is eating puried foods, the start of solids.
He is a fantastic little guy and he just brightens up the place when his mum and dad bring him round to see his gramps and granny. I have decided I will be known as gramps because I like the sound of it his granny , my wife, hasn't made up her mind how she'll be known so she could end up as grumps to my gramps.

On another note the kitchen is very close to being finished just a new door, skirtings and facings and general painting to finish Oh and the tiles to the splashback and it'll all be done.

So got to start on the planning of the next thing to do.

Mmmmm wonder what that will be.

Am I ever wrong?

Well the answer to that has to be YES. My wifes 'womens trouble is or was not a hystorectomy but a prolapse of the cervix' which of course means bugger all to me apart from it's quite serious but very different from previously reported. It still means that she can't do much and is off work for 12 or 13 weeks. Unable to lift things for the first few weeks and in a fair amount of pain.

Main thing is I have cloth ears and really should pay more attention when people speak to me.

I am back to being a boring B and returned to work and doing too much as usual.

Regards and felicitations to all my phantoms.

My wife

Other big news in my life is that my better half is in hospital - due home tomorrow - after having an operation -- womens trouble -- as they say, doctor called it a Hystorectomy. She's fine and looking really well considering the seriousness of the operation and looking forward to a few weeks of being molly coddled and pampered while she heals. She will also run me ragged and make the most of not being able to do things.

Ah well that's what love's all about.

My feet

I mentioned in March that I have sore feet and lower legs, that's the biggest understatment I've ever made sore doesn't begin to describe the pain.

Anyway - I have started to notice I begin sentences with the word 'anyway' quite a lot I'll have to stop that - I saw another neurologist on Tuesday who tested the conductivity of my nerves - got to stop these little asides as well, why he had to spend so much time at Med school is beyond me, he placed a contact on my feet and another on my leg and sent an electrical charge between them then measured the distance and fed that into a PC - so the PC was doing all the work. He merely read the results from the screen.
Upshot is my nerves are causing me pain - I knew that already didn't need umpteen years in med school or a PC to tell me that bit - he doesn't know what causes it but it won't get any better he tells me then gets back to chatting up the pretty med student who wants to learn how to work a PC like he does - his fingers are so nimble on the keyboard her heart and eyes flutter - you can see the hero worship as well as feel it.

Anyway - there I go again tsk tsk- he says that the first consultant, from February, will be in touch to let me know what the findings are, which at the rate the NHS moves at will be in December. So here I sit a little depressed, readers, phantoms, and all who sail the porridge and morrasse nay drivel I write here. A little research on the internet of the symptoms I have tell me I may have a condition called by various names but mostly RSD (CRPS) - Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy ( Complex Regional Pain Syndrome) in essence my nerves have set up a pain giving loop - one nerve says its sore and another says are you and first say yes and so it goes on. If I were a computer I'd simply switch off and reboot but I aint so I can't so I'll have to suffer the pain, It'll only get worse so the story goes.

Craig Anstey

I was just wandering through you tube for some of my old time favourite songs- Don't fence me in, Ghost riders in the sky, some of Donovans best colours etc.

Anyway I found this brilliant young Canadian acoustic guitarist who also has a fantastic voice he can be found at - http://www.youtube.com/user/Canstey84#play/search/4/ddEKMiITCJA

just click the link and it should take you there or copy and paste into your address bar. He has uploaded what seems like hundreds of original and cover acoustic songs. he really is good.

Better go before I start sounding like a groupie or whatever that is.

I keep forgetting no one actually reads this so who am I telling this to?

Bye for now.