Early February

I've picked up another infection. I have started a new course of antibiotics. Now its a matter of beating the lurgi again.
We found a hospital bed on ebay and are buying it. It is actually two beds side by side working independently. There is also a matress that has to be plugged in too. The whole thing will be collected by the people  storing our furniture in Lerwick. They have a job in London and will collect it from Bucks on the way back. The Charlie Thomason fund will pay for it and we will leave it as a resource for Fetlar when it becomes redundant. I may let Mum have the mattress if they give me the type that massage you while you lie there.
I have also been measured for a reclining chair that will sit me up and eject me when I want to get up.
This means getting rid of a leather settee to make room.
I've been measured for a  wheelchair but don't know when it will arrive. I have also been offered a couple of walking sticks as they thought my walking poles were inappropriate.
There will be deliveries of handrails to the current house and the new house so that everything will be up to date here and ready for moving in when the house is finished.
Meanwhile we had a meeting on Fetlar to discuss the Shetland Astronomical Society. Some people on Fetlar will volunteer to take on posts to stop it folding.
If the society closes we will have a North Isles Group and try to keep regular meetings.
I volunteered to have daytime meetings with whoever volunteers to prepare for sky watching evenings, contact the Federation of Astronomical Societies, prepare  annual reports etc.
We will see how it all goes. Hopefully we will do something during National Astronomy Week from first to eighth of March.
I also have to show two or three people how to run the hnefatafl tournament. Then I can sit back and watch it all happening.
The gales persist but when they stop I will get Janet to take me out in the car with my blue badge so I can park somewhere I've never parked before.
So the future looks exciting.