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Hi Chrissy!

Sounds like a great opening sentence! Wish I'd thought of it1 Yes,

he did buy some books....very odd taste! He taught classics....Greek

and Latin....and tends to buy books about the ancient world,

Egyptian, greek, Roman, New Testament etc. I'll just mention by

b'day pressie, though it's off subject! At Covent Garden we found a

lovely little silversmiths selling individual jewellers' work. Jim

found a beautiful silver pendant made out of Roman glass found near

Jerusalem. The jeweller in question takes pieces of the ancient

glass (so each pendant is individual) and sets it into a silver

surround. It is really ususual and looks Roman too! It's round and

also has a tiny pearl hanging from it. I love it!

Jim will be 60 next birthday (April). I've already arranged a meal

with him the Friday before but this is because his (male!) friends

wish to take him out to dinner and I have to make sure, without

telling him, that he's properly dressed to go out! I'll have to be

dresed to go out and then stay at home!! Or else I'll have to make a

separate arrangement with all the wives! We'll do the real

celebration a bit late because (son) is planning a month in

Peru before he starts work (at last!) in May. As soon as he's back,

the boys will plan a night out in London again but they and my

lovely daughter-in-law will be with us this time. Ballet " Giselle "

might be on!! I'll have to check the dates. I have to say that Jim

would ALWAYS prefer a quiet meal with the family to anything

else....and in a simple restaurant too. He generally hates big

parties.....except for one which I insisted on in 1999 for our 30th

wedding anniversary.....and he loved it! (other son) plays

violin and organised a group to sing and play all evening. I don't

think I could face organising that sort of party now, I'm afraid.

Perhaps in the summer.

Well, back to THAT SUBJECT. Sorry if the stent is blocking. What

will they do? You must have a good doc, Chrissy; he's got things

moving pretty quickly, hasn't he? I wish I could be in Cin when you

are on the way to recovery.

I'd love to go to the US some day. A friend of mine has just spent

half-term in New York. Seems a long way to go just for a week but

that's an old-fashioned view, I suppose. Both my sons have been to

the US but we haven't! Typical!

Take care and keep up that cheerfulness. You're inspirational! I had

an e-mail from Sue this morning. She's done more in the last week

(in the house) than I could ever possibly do .....even if I'd never

been ill, never mind had a TP!

Thinking of you,

Fliss