Happy New Year to all!

Hope you have a good year too Pat. Sorry to hear about the flu, it seems the swine flu is in our area. In the local paper it tells of a young woman going unto labour on Christmas Eve but she had also got swine flu and was feeling very ill. The doctors managed to hold back the birth until she got over the flu. The baby still early was born on New Years day. Lucky mother and baby. Shirley

In message , Pat P writes

May i join [a bit late] and wish all a HEALTHY 2011, A lot of creative moods and projects and may the whole world be a better place for all . mirjam

Oh good - I thought that EVERYONE had gone down with the dreaded flu. It doesn`t half take a while to get over it - I`m much better but not 100% - and I`ll SMACK the next person who tells me I`d have had it worse without the flu injection!!!

Thank goodness John didn`t get it - we`d have been in a real muddle if he had. Our ex son-in-law did a bit of shopping for us, bless him, we only needed bread and milk, really, as both our freezers are full.

We all hope that the world will be a better place, Mirjam, but somehow I doubt it. The poor old world seems to be going to Hell in a handcart in so many respects! The floods in Australia are unbelievable. An old schoolfriend in Queensland is OK so far but is very worried about the dam just upriver from her. If that goes she`ll be in a real fix, and the last she said was that it was 25% over capacity - they`d already had to release some of the contents.

Pat P