HI Babs, TA for your e-mail this morning, i made me feel better to think you could even do one!!! Hope you manage to get some kip after what sounded a very unrestful night. I wish i was nearer to help with the birds & other animals but you have got some really good caring friends looking after you for which I'm thankful for, for your sake. Good job your not here listening to our 3 guys shouting & singing their little heads off, they'd have you in stitches. The favorite one at the moment is YEE HAW, ride 'em cowboy & when all 3 get going its hilarious. Another one is, fancy a bacon buttty? I'm amazed at just how many words & sayings they can say & NEVER get fed up of listening to them.

I can't believe that 4 weeks today we will be in Camas, Washington State, visiting Cher & Bruce, OMG!!!! We fly from Manchester to Vancouver BC on Fri 11th Sept & arrive about lunch time so we have the rest of the day there & will stop the night & then we fly to Portland, Oregon the afternoon after. Bruce will pick us up from the airport as Cher will be at a Hopi wedding in Arizona so we won't see her until the Monday. She goes on her birthday 9th Sept, day after your Tommy, so we will have to hold off the celebrations until then!!! We spend 2 weeks there & then fly back to Vancouver BC for a weeks stop there, its our 6th trip in 10 years there so you could say we like the place, we LOVE it actually but don't know how many more times we will get there as its gone quite expensive now. Its better value in USA where Cher & Bruce live, very good for eating out & some great micro brews & good wine. Of course we will be having her chickens eggs & their own beef & veggies too so really looking forwards to that again as well. We are stopping at her mums retirement home in a guset suite like ast time, its a beautiful place called the 'Waterford', its for the over 50's so we fit in!!! It works out much cheaper than a hotel & its a proper apartment with everyhting you could need. They have a swimming pool, fitness center, cafe so plenty to do when we aren't with Cher & Bruce. While we are away its our 6th wedding aniversary on Oct 2nd & also 20 years the same day we have been together & i can't believe just how fast that time has flown. We will be in Vancouver then. We have friends there so will be meeting up with them, he's a local lad from Eccles who married a Canadian lady over 40 years ago & is retiring so i think we may even catch his retirement do.

Well, i'd better get Sunday dinner going, roast beef, yum yum. Bye for now & hope you are feeling a little better ever day that goes buy, you are always in our thoughts, lots of love & hugs to you, Pauline XXXXXXXXXXXX

Hi Barbara, the website was down for a bit and Elizabeth mentioned you'd blogged but I couldn't get on to see it, finally here I am. Super to hear that you are improving rapidly. Good post! What great care they've given you and God has answered our prayers. Will be looking forward to hearing you are back at home soon. Rest well, don't dive back in too quickly when you get back, take it easy. Love from both of us, Cher and Bruce