Or rather, 'under the doctor' as people used to say. Two days after Xmas 2009, he lost half the sight in his right eye, that is, grey bars have appeared across it, still giving him binocular vision but only from a metre away, so soldering is Difficult! Moorfields said there was nothing they could do, after three visits & countless tests. Then, he has to get a hernia in the Summer, which should be fixed in December. The annoying thing in all this is he is still disgustingly fit, see the travel pages.

Ken was always telling the boys you need to keep some 'hole in the roof' money. Well, this was the year we had to spend ours with Terry Henson (07763 529 677 no web site), who replaced the lot. Ken put decking down after on the roof patio instead of the horrible astroturf we inherited.