Good luck at the hospital Dad, hope all is at least unchanged, a real pain in the wotsit. I admit the print is still sitting in a tube here in a corner. I havn't signed it yet as everything is so messy here while we wait on our house and I dont want to get it mucky. I also would like to get it framed myself but will have to arrange that with someone in UK. It may have to wait till my next visit. I will have to pick the paintings up from the Royal Portait Society after the show comes down in May, we will also be in the UK in June 8-11? for a wedding, so we will get to see you then.

Ruth's Opera is the rarely performed Philomen and Baucis, (or the voyage from Jupiter to the earth) by Haydn. They play twice a day, and Lyon Opera are kind enough to put her up in a self contained hotel appartment. I am going up next weekend and we are booked in at a posh restaurant for dinner (Lyon=Gastronomy=yumyum).

I have great plans for this site I would like to make it beautiful and lively and representative of us all, so if anyone has any thing they would like to include let me know: one thing I thought would be useful is an information/bio page, either one page each or one page per family; we can also put up wish-lists and stuff making birthdays really simple, (well as simple as not getting any presents for anybody). Steve you might also want a site for your paintings?
Thoughts galore. Lots of love J