I hope you are well again soon too!
Are you and AM by any chance drinking from the same well?
If we are, my friend above uses a very long pipe!
Thanks for your good wishes, I seem to be less iffy this evening, although will likely skip dinner.
Sorry to hear this AM, take it easy and hope you feel better.
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Not what I would like to be doing.
Injured knee is giving me alot of pain.
Xray next week and cortisone injection to follow.
A fluid build up will also be drained.
I have been assured it will be an almost instant cure.
Taking the opportunity of finishing my latest ancestry project.
Ibuprofen, doliprane and a bag of frozen peas currently providing pain relief.
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Hope your knee is better soon John.
Don’t overdose on the peas. 
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…been on a 3 day road trip from home through central France via Clermont Ferrand, Sancerre, overnight in Troyes, then Reims, then to Brussel for lunch, and fabulous dinner, overnight, then lunch somewhere in Brabant on the water, and now in The Hague for the week for a wedding on Sunday with a night in Amsterdam mid week.
Generally catching up with old friends and sometime next week will drive back South most probably with a stop or two cia Beaune and Lyon…car keeps filling up with bottles of wine somehow… 
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The US State of Sth Carolina + British Airways has a stand/garden at Chelsea. A couple of friends of mine are to ‘man’ it. They have no idea what they will find till they get there …
That happened to me, out of the blue, some years ago. I just blacked out. This was in a restaurant in New Palz, N.Y.
Half an hour later I was in the I.C.U. in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. where, over 3 days, they ran every possible test. Found nothing. For the first time in many years/visits to the U.S. I had insurance … the 15min ambulance trip was $800. I never saw the hospital bill. Must have been a telephone number.
I am at two with gardening. When I bought this place there were three patches of mowed ‘lawn’ around the house. Useless for anything except putting time on a mower. As I had the interior of the house to do, they’ve turned into las pampas.
The shed at the top of the tennis-court size patch of equally useless grass [slope too steep] above the house was entirely visible when I first saw it. Now one half has been engulfed by the Leylandii hedge. What had been a mowed lawn is now a bumpy-lumpy meadow. Re-wilding, I call it. I’ve been quoted €300 for hedge and debrousillage.
But the works on the attelier and the summer house/ photo-gallery are coming on fine and now the fog has cleared and the sun has come out, I think I’ll do a bit of that.
But I will have to nip to the pharm on account of the same problem as @JohnBoy. I’ve had the X-rays “Moderately severe osteo-arthritis” ‘Moderately severe’ being hedge-your-bets medico-bollocks…
What’s the connection between South Carolina and BA?
On my way up to Le Mans to meet my nephew and his pal. They won’t be there until around 19h so I’m taking quite a long, picturesque route.
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Hope the weather holds for you.
If we have much more rain here in SW 47, I’ll be off to buy a boat.
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Sorry to read about your knee and hope it’s an instant cure.
In my late sixties I started to focus on strengthening mine because they were hurting whenever I went downstairs (not good in a three storey house). Since then daily dips and squats with and without weights have made such a difference. I really notice this now on rando routes that I’ve done in previous years where many once torturous climbs are no longer a struggle.
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2 Gold medals 
so so happy for everyone’s hard work.
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Are you able to say who? 
Yes.
The Avanade garden - I implemented all of the tech and water features.
Addleshaw Goddard.
I did the lighting, power and the water feature.
I’m part of a great team. Some of the best guys in the world. 
So proud of each and every one. 
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Thanks Rob, I’ve been looking at them on the RHS website. Looks like the Addleshaw Goddard garden has not only got a gold but is also has the Small Garden of the Year award.
The Avanade Garden is fascinating. I did not realise how much urban trees struggled. Here in rural Lot et Garonne our trees just thrive.
What a super world to be involved in.
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S.C. seem to have a knack of partnering major airlines - fly/drive hols. My pal, who’se doing their garden at Chelsea F.S., used to be Mr S.C. golf for U.K. golfers. Some U.S. airline was in on that.
Virgin Atlantic was going to do golf hols, paid my pal £30k to run up a dossier of suitable courses, then decided they wouldn’t bother.
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Worrying unnecessarily about when I can get back over to France…house was turned over Easter weekend 2024, & haven’t been able to get over in that time.
Keeping things going on the farm in UK… finishing the workshop, topping, planting, fettling etc.
Working part time, waving off visitors, & discouraging others.
Yawning a lot.
Yep, that about covers it.
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Thanks for your tip and if my body had
endured a lighter physical touch during my working life your advice may well produce positive results.
Contending with an 18 year old hip replacement which thankfully is still working well, lower leg pain as a result of lower spine damage and many more ‘niggles’ my rando days are over before they began.
When my knee has been sorted I think our new puppy will give me all the exercise I need 
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Do you do any cycling JohnBoy?
The risk of tripping, tumbling, falling while on 2 legs increases as we get older and the damage that can cause equally increases. Those risks when on 2 wheels are significantly increased. Yes there are tricycles and even static exercise bikes but all in all too little too late. Thanks for your suggestion but we all know what are bodies are capable of depending on background factors and cycling for me isn’t an option.
I recall when I was maybe 13/14 when I had a bike, cobbled together from various scrappers but it got me around. The brakes weren’t brilliant but shoe leather was a good alternative. One morning before school I went for a spin and arriving home at speed I entered our driveway and remembering I was wearing my new school shoes the thought of scuffing them and consequently getting a scuffing from my mother was too much to contemplate. My cycling skills were good, or so I thought. Attempting a sharp turn while applying the only brake (the front one) I parted company with my bike over the handle bars landing with my head hitting the metal milk crate that sat by the garage door.My bike escaped injury but sadly not me, I still have a visible scar on my forehead that has been part of my redesigned facial features ever since.