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another disc, this time the treatment was so different, within three weeks I was nearly back to normal, but the subsequent physio cost an arm and a leg as well!  Still I was better in time to anti foul and launch.

With Keith and now my old chum Phil helping, the fitting out was done in very short order.  Only snag was when one of my small 'messenger' lines broke,, as we tried to thread the halyards back up the mast.  I had to be hoisted up to re thread the rope by hand.  At the mast head, some 33 ft above the deck and 40ft above the concrete, I was quite happy till I realised the black cloud approaching fast was a very active thunderstorm, lightning was very visible by the time I hastily returned to the deck.  The heavens opened 5 minutes later.

much so that Carol and Paul came over to help in the garden!  A few weeks and we were on top again. 
Michael then found us a sit on mower, great fun, It was a bit damaged, but I made up a wooden body for the back end, it looks like a pickup truck now!  Halves the mowing time. We also get time to enjoy the Garden with Brandon too, as on the swing above….

We spent a few nice days with our friends Judy and Charlie, who had just moved to Filey.  Lots of walking their dog along empty beaches, picking up fossils.  Nice part of the world, sadly Foot and Mouth had got there just before us, so like Tillingham, all the paths were shut.

The garden brightened up on 26th of April, the Swallows were back.. We still have not tempted them to nest, nor the Martins, but a pair of Wrens and then Bluetits raised young in the Martins nest boxes, Hey Ho!

Come May and I really did my back again,