Apologies to all those who have written to me in the last few months and have not heard back. The fact is I have been poorly and I mean *proper poorly* INTENSIVE CARE poorly. Anyway I am feeling better now but there have been consequences. My cancer has gone untreated and like a teenage boy left in charge of the family BMW it is “ripping up the streets”. And so it has come to pass leaving the treatment options at ….

Fill in the blank if you dare – that I have only days weeks or months left to enjoy all the great stuff that you guys have many days, months and years to enjoy. Make sure you do.

All the things you imagine writing in a message like this you can assume are in the section below

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so there is no need for me to write them again instead I will tell you what we intend to do in the next number of days.

1. Get fast track discharged

2. ⁠That means we can get 2 careworkers 4 times a day

3. ⁠+ all the gear we need including a hospital bed

4. ⁠Install me in said bed

5. ⁠Decide on next course of action and enjoy

Please don’t contemplate visits and whatnot. I would feel enormous pressure – it may be that during that time I do the odd face-time but I doubt it.

If you feel the need to do something then come the time for memorialisation I would like those of you who feel inclined to make some of your own art/music/poetry etc to go into an online album. Is that a good idea?