What a wonderful idea, Summer, I'm on my way there now!

Charley's op was actually on Tuesday (he called it thuesday... but then he is Dutch!). He managed to get onto a PC in the hospital on Wednesday and reported a sore face ("looks like it's been hit by a truck") but all okay.

Izi

"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)