Just passing through....
As you will have gathered, I have largely transferred my activity over to Facebook (where most of you now seem to be in any case).
I'm also still posting on my blog Eine Kleine Nichtmusik.
I'll pop back from time to time to see what's going on.
Main status updates since last year:
1) In February 2010 my brother died
2) He died as a result of alpha-1 antritrypsin deficiency (see here), and in March I was diagnosed with the same condition, fortunately much less serious as I gave up smoking years ago
3) Hilary isn't a carrier for the condition so while our children are carriers thanks to me, they can't actually develop A1AD itself.
4) I'm taking voluntary redundancy from Lloyds Banking Group at the end of October. I can draw my pension immediately and there seem to be plenty of contract opportunities in Edinburgh.
5) My daughter will be working in Mallorca over the summer and we're joining her for a fortnight in July. Good walking country though we'll need early starts to avoid being frazzled by the heat: not the season for long expeditions.
Be seeing you....