Update

Sorry, folks - got a little side-tracked.

Ankle update: operation went okay, patient now embarking on learning to deal with crutches. Once that's okay-d, homeward bound. Thank goodness; hospital visiting, while it's nice to see the old loved one, doesn't half eat away the day.

Culinary update: erm, not a lot actually. I was mulling over whether some rather elderly bananas were calling sufficiently loud enough to be turned into a banana and honey loaf, but I may have prevaricated long enough for them to have safely ripened beyond redemption. Just as well wood doesn't rot as fast or I'd never make anything... The Old Man did a fine roast chicken earlier this week, even unto his first bread sauce, entirely without my assistance. The latter may account for why it was so nice. Regrettably he's already dropped hints about a chicken pie, but with my cooking, it's less "nothing is as loving as something from the oven" and more a dangerous flirtation with Pie-induced Patricide...

Workshop update: time actually being spent therein. Oo-er, missus! Thanks entirely to LV asking for my arbitary prejudices, likes and dislikes to be brought to bear on something. Alas, 'tis not to be revealed, so you'll have to stay in ignorance. So while it is workshop time, it's not terribly productive as far as I'm concerned. But hey, it would be nice to delude oneself that it's productive for the R&D chaps; even if it's only in learning to bite their tongues and not say "what the h*** is this freaky-handed English dame talking about?!" ;-)