Here's to my Vivacious Veronica, whose BIRTHDAY falls on The Ides Of March in America which shares half the realtime hours with mine on the other side of the International Dateline.

I was computerless in Oz and returned to Singapore last night after a frantic week.

I did my best to avoid getting to 70 a couple of weeks ago by falling down and damaging myself, but it didn't turn out so badly as it was mainly just very painful when I did ANYTHING at all (and still does a little). I went to hospital and had three X-rays, a brain-scan (yes I do have one although you would wonder sometimes) two ECGs and countless blood pressures taken.

What did they find? A broken big toe! Which will mend on its own....and the black eye has gone now! I could publish a picture of the violent purple bruise on my bum, but this is a NICE place and pornography is a No-No. Don't ask how so many bits of me came into contact with so many hard surfaces, 'cos I have no idea.

Thanks to everyone for the Birthday Wishes as well. I'll try to behave myself...well, mostly.

And thankyou to my wonderfully talented little sister, 'Drea,

Joanne