Hello to you all, as we see the close of month two of 2026. The health side of things remain almost as they were from the previous week. The discomfort increased and there definitely feels like there is something physical there. We are now less than one week before I meet with the Consultant and, as I am certain you can imagine, what may be coming is increasingly dominating mine and my family’s thought processes; we are all trying to think just about anything, other than what those recent scans have shown up. Alongside that, two more walks completed, with times of 13:24 and 13:22. The reason for only two, was not weather related this week.
On Friday, Sandra and I celebrated our 38th wedding anniversary. We took some time and went away for three days. Day One was to the Duxford aircraft museum and somewhere I have not been to for more than 40-years. Back then, I was a member of the Air Training Corps (RAF Cadets) and we went there as a day trip from our nearby summer camp base. The set up of the museum is different now and many of the surviving aircraft are more packed in, especially the USA hanger. Great to see some of them again and amongst them was an SR-71 - the second one I have seen up close. The B-52, Warthog, Concorde and Victor were amongst the highlights. We stayed nearby and enjoyed a very nice Thai meal on Friday night. On Saturday, we spent a few hours walking around Saffron Walden, before making the journey back southwards, into our second hotel. That was next to the Excel exhibition hall, as we had booked a couple of tickets for the immersive Pompeii experience for Sunday. The hotel was very nice and as we had made them aware that it was our anniversary weekend, they upgraded us to a full waterside suite, plus some other small benefits. Our Saturday afternoon and evening was enjoyable, as we had time to relax, before going down to the restaurant to a superb meal. We rounded off the weekend with visiting the Pompeii experience. It uses a mix of artefacts, replica artefacts and VR headsets, which makes for a unique insight into what took place in 79 AD. We got back home on Sunday mid-afternoon, but en-route, we stopped in with Karl, Rachel and Grace to say hello.
On the book front, the main focus was the corrections for Chapter 8 & the Appendices, plus some final clear up of a couple of aspects. This book is very close to completion and may be done by the end of this coming week.
In summary, great to be able to celebrate another key date in the story of Sandra and I, whilst doing so in pleasant surroundings.
Thank you for the ongoing interest in my story of live in the AD world.
Regards
Peter