Thank you lovely ladies for your kind words and/or your blatant mockery of me and my situation. You have either made me feel all warm and fuzzy or given me a hearty belly laugh.

Far out we're in trouble if the kids find out about this! 'No way mum, it'll give me gout!'.
Yeah, let's just keep this quite hey.

And for those of you wondering, I do an absolutely ripper impersonation of Les Patterson... sitting on the lounge, with my gout foot up on the coffee table, drinking red wine, slopping it about a bit, eating cheese and crackers, getting crumbs all down my front... in my best Les Patterson voice "Sorry darl, I won't be able to help with dinner bath and bed for the kids tonight, me gout's playing up again..."