Mum's shingles is looking better than it was a couple of weeks ago and hopefully this improvement will continue.  Her carers are wonderful.

On a completely different note I don't know what's happened to me...  I'm not in the habit of losing things but since Christmas Day I seem to have mislaid three things:-

- my two spare front door keys, which I've obviously put in a very safe place.

- my favourite ballpoint pen, a present from a parent when I left teaching and which has lived in my handbag for the last seven years.

- my rail tickets for next week's journey to Edinburgh... although the booking email does give me a reference number for collecting tickets from the station machine...

I've always believed that losing things is a reflection of one's state of mind.  Oh dear!