Continuing Story of Cressroads

HAVE HENRY, WILL TRAVEL/cont. from 15/04/09

As it’s oft said, HRH,

You’re all heart. But watch your step picnicking in the Land of Purbeck Stone. Close by the Tilly Whim caves and within sight of the curious sea cliff known as Dancing Ledge.

So it is good to hear Yolly, Charlotte, her two young cousins and your-caring-self all arrived home safe and sound, after yesterday’s travels to Dorset’s quiet resort of Swanage.

Sheltered by Ballard Down, sandy beaches for the kids, but Uncle Tapper needing to resist his urge to go dancing on sea-cliffs.

Accidents do happen.

And you now have great family responsibility, while Yolly keeps a spotless house.

“A very lovely, hard working, devoted mother and spouse,’ you email. ‘Never am I criticized, never does she complain, never does she ask for anything.

‘She gives 100% of herself.’

Charlotte, you report, is seen at your local GP’s practice, ‘checked over and given a prescription … once she and her mother’s residency status is stamped permanent, we can progress matters for the child’ … and hastening to explain you have an appointment this coming week with a London lawyer, who specializes in immigration.

Good luck, Henry. Sure that it can’t be easy. But sounding as if you are checking all of your important boxes.

Returning to your mention of Charlotte’s valve-like hole in her heart for a patent foramen ovale (PFO), a defect linked with stroke as well as migraine among as many as one in four folk, have you heard how a team at London’s Royal Brompton Hospital has found a way to employ the body’s natural healing power to treat the condition?

Consultant cardiologist Dr Michel Mullen explains how a bioabsorbable patch acts as a temporary plug, until the body replaces it with healthy normal tissue, normally within 30 days; and providing an alternative to closing the defect surgically by use of a graft, and a procedure that can risk damage to surrounding tissue.

On a quite different medical front (and possible Good Health tale), Blogsbody’s developing and especially companionable, comfy relationship with a Home Counties daughter of Father Thames creates a need to put lead in his pencil for taking down her million-to-one detail of a hospitalized holidaymaker’s brush with death, after scratching his mozzie bite.

Remember Kim Ruby Rangoon?

Kim emails to say: ‘Keeping next Tuesday free for you.’

For the making of a short BBC film featuring the Continuing Story of Cressroads, by when the equivalent of as many as 20,000 illustrated words will have been posted, scoring hundreds of hits for a cast already 200-strong and Tichborne Arms production team grown to number as many as half-a-dozen.

Henry, ’tis good to be old and eccentric. You wait. It only gets better.

Regards to your family,
Blogsbody

p.s. So looking forward to meeting your developing Filipino family - growing, as everything does in Cressroads - and experiencing HRH changed instant spouse, daddy and uncle.