Do I dare show my face around here after so much time away? I’m afraid I do.

Thanks for all the messages. I’m fine, but for various reasons haven’t felt like writing for a while.

All sorts of things have been happening since my last post. I am now at one with snow having spent time face down in it. Nuff said. I drove an automatic car for the first (and hopefully the last) time. No, let me rephrase that; I went for a ride in an automatic car. Manual cars have to be driven, changing gear up and down as needed. Automatic cars take you from A to B while you sit there willing your left leg to stay put while screaming abuse at the engine because it has decided you’re not going to overtake the car in front. Every time I wanted to change gear or stop the car my left leg started waving around of it’s own accord, trying to find a pedal to push while my right hand drifted mid-air above where the gear stick ought to be. All this was accompanied by Jenny shouting “right hand back on the wheel, THERE IS NO GEAR STICK, left foot on the floor, NOW, do it, where is your left leg going? -  look at it, put it down and forget it.”

We got where we wanted to be eventually, but strangely enough Jenny offered to drive home.