I said I'm off to a slow start, but I never realised it would be so damn slow. The past 3-4 weeks seem to have flown and I don't appear to have done much at all. Now I'm having problems remembering what I have and have not done.

But things have been happening:

..We drove back to Adelaide for several days (a round trip of about 2,000 km) to see Jules's 93 yo mum as she had been rushed to hospital......only to find that she was sitting up in bed looking fine. Makes me wonder how many more if these "mercy" dashes we will have to undertake before she passes on. Not that I would wish her evil.......

..We had the grandkids come and stay with us for a few days. .

..We went down to Melbourne for a few days and watched 8 yo Jack playing footy (he kicked one goal, was instrumental in his team getting another two, and took a couple of wonderful marks) and missed 5 yo Gus kicking four goals, including three in almost as many minutes.

..Gus had his photo on page 3 of Melbourne's major newspaper and featured on a national TV news service...but it was like water off a duck's back to him. He greeted his mother the day afterwards shouting joyously, "I'm famous!" and waving both arms in the air.

..I had my first session at Monash Epworth Research Foundation which is doing a study into exercise and people who have suffered brain injury and was interviewed for an hour about my sleep and exercise habits (my sleep is rotten and I only average around 3-4 hours a night....but that was the case pre stroke anyway). I go back again in August 7.

..I have had bronchitis - at least that is what my dr said when I saw him on Tuesday to get e results of tests that were done the previous week..... Chest x-Rays to check on lung damage/emphysema/lung cancer and breathing tests. Good news.....apart from minor damage done by some 40 years of smoking the lung capacity is only moderately down, and the lungs were clean apart from damage done by thoracic surgery in early 2010.

..and I had my iPad checked by Apple and it is OK......but I have lost a stack of stuff that was on it when they reset it, and now my passwords are all up *beep* bonzer creek and I'm having trouble accessing various things including internet banking.

So that's my dreary and booring story. Finally, I apologise for any typos etc. it's almost midnight and my eyes feel like *beep* holes in the snow.....

PS: I know the censor has a job to do, but I do find it a bit of a pain in the *beep* when what has been beeped out actually added to the story...but I guess I will get use to it.