Hello @outlander 

Lovely to see you. Appreciate the hello all the way over here......

@JacquesThank you for expressing how you enjoy hearing from my rambling and writing to me..

Let me know if any more update on your mum's surgery.....hopefully closer to home..

hope also that you are managing with changes in your life and health....you have come a long way Jacques....

@TABalways popping up saying hello and Prussia yes. Went to some interesting places in Germany old Roman Empire region.... Evidence of old family name connection was special.  A castle!

Museums...monasteries and forests incredible over there.

@tonys

Your memory is powerful......the long tall frosty glass drink was straight coke for him....I took him for a cooked meal at the well known hotel here....he parked his gopher around the back and was able to manoeuver his way through the back entrance which is a credit to him. He has such determination....I was helping him deal with a hangover ...leftover from the upsetting night before that he texted me about...I wanted to get some hot food into him.....It melted my heart to see his eyes light up and face beam with his missing teeth at the front...(waiting for a replacement...) ...fell off his gopher onto the road..  proudly showed me his new dentures next time I saw him...We communicated via text as he can't produce many sounds to make speech easy in environments other than one to one....

He is same age as my son...Has the same persistence and determination..

@Oaktree  Thank you for thinking of me and your caring message.... Your gardening is coming  ahead in leaps and bounds.....forget market gardening...you will be able to start a chain of organic food outlets...volunteering at the children's hospital would be incredible...

I can't write too much more...

I am not doing too well at the moment.....just had an anniversary related to older son...

As much as I ache to see him..

I just want him to have his own life...his way....safe and trusting ...be himself as he wants to be..

is no longer safe for him to come home now...health system here have messed him up too many times..

One day he might let me know where he is and let me visit..

I will write to you all...

one day at a time at the moment..