And so it goes on...

Hi again, sorry for the lack of posts; this is partly due to sheer exhaustion but also due to the fact that some of the major developments in my life aren't for public consumption (yet).

Anyway - I have been back at work for a few weeks - on Easter holidays at the moment - and next Monday (12th April) I have an operation to try to sort out the knee. I saw the specialist last week and he was really lovely - explained that they are trying to locate a missing bit of bone surface which sort of flaked off, taking the protective cartilage with it, which is why there's been so much pain... Either they will find it and 'tack it back on' or they won't, and will debride (smooth off) the bone and I think fill it with something, not quite sure what he said...

So next Monday my dear friend Doris will take me to hospital bright and early, and my dear sister Pam will come and collect me mid-afternoon and take me home again. And depending on what they've done, I'll be off work again for between two and eight weeks. My boss very kindly offered to send me out in a taxi but unless there was also a sherpa to carry my bags I'm not quite sure how much use that would be!

I've really enjoyed my time alone in the house - even more now I'm back at work. There definitely is a touch of the hermit in me... I have recently bought a limited edition pack of the Gaian Tarot by Joanna Powell-Colbert, and I can't say how beautiful it is. I've never read cards before but it's funny - the first time I tried, it felt as though I was playing a piece I knew really well on the piano. These are particularly beautiful cards (the old ones always made me feel as though someone was drying my soul out, somehow, so I never liked them). I am going to study and hopefully will be able to do readings for other people at some stage.

I miss my daughters a lot from time to time, but I am so proud of them - so proud I could burst, really. What a privilege to have raised such wonderful young women. I really feel as though I've done my bit to make the world a better place!

And it's Spring! Sunshine! Light nights!! :D

So - in a good place really! I hope you are too...