I have been locked out of Acme because I forgot my password.

At last I am able to be here and a lot has happened in the last year since I had my back op.

I am as recovered as I am ever going to get at my age, so I just keep taking the pain pills.

I don't know if I mentioned that on Xmas day 2021 Pixie broke her foot and had to have plates and nuts put in to repair it. Well she had bad reactions and had to have the metalware removed, however, she is now fine.

Cleo -amazingly - is absolutely fine, rules the house with an iron rod.

Many of you may not know but South Africa is currently undergoing real problems with electricity supplies, the reason being that this corrupt ANC government (with an ever quickly increasing population) has done nothing for the past 20 yrs in the way of maintenance or new electricity providing. No private providers are allowed!!! so currently we are living with about 10hrs without electricity every day in the middle of summer. Many small businesses are going Kaput, large businesses are moving to other countries and thus many more thousands are losing their jobs (our current rate is 48% unemployed).

Apart from all of the downers. I am fine, my dog and cat are fine and it's good to be able to get back here and, hopefully, pickup the threads again.