Hi Miss C,
Thanks for all your thoughts

Things are going ok - work has got sooooo mad that not having a social life is not such a bad thing at the moment - plus my DH was wonderful over the long weekend and took a day to drive me up to a friends place about 2 1/2 hrs from us so I could spend a day catching up with her - it was soooo nice!

Hope all is going well in the UK! Good luck over there.

FG