Hi all,
thanks for the wellwishes. My system is much better thanks. Rotten thing is that unlike Fran, because of the drugs for the kidney transplant interacting with sooooo many other drugs and even herbal remedies I cant take anything much if I do get way laid by a nasty bug. I just have to weather it all. 

Would you believe as soon as the gastro started settling I got a 48hr bug with a sore throat and cough (i know it was a bug cause Alan got it too)

However! I have just returned hale and (reasonalbly) hearty from a great little interstate trip by plane to Sydney to watch my 10 year old cousin Michelle, play cricket for her school at the Sydney Cricket Ground in the half time entertainment in the test match for the 3rd day of Australia VS India! She made 3 runs, bowled and fielded and I took about 100 pics of it all for her (naturally) I have attached one, sorry couldn't resist, She is the one in pink shoelaces throwing the ball. We went up yesterday morning, watched the game, had tea on the waterfront, went to bed and then flew home this afternoon!

I am in the midst of sorting out getting a laptop as this pc is a tad...umm....unreliable, so bear with me if I am a bit intermedate with my replies etc.
Hopefully now that everything is settling down I can get going with my stable, I may be a bit slow but it is still moving ahead, got some great pics of an old stable on my aunts farm before I got the tummy wobbles, I will send them to you koosie when I have sorted everything out.

Happy new year all! 
@Koosie, that plan is looking really good!

Jen