Thank you Shannon... you'll make me blush! I hope you have a great time in Sydney - word of warning, it's absolutely freezing here! Cold and wet and just awful, and looks like being that way through the weekend, too. I hope you don't run into too much hassle with the APEC stuff going on around here. I'm personally taking the opportunity to avoid going into the city at all, and staying out as far as I can. The best thing... My school is closed for the day tomorrow even though we're outside the region that should get the public holiday because one of our bus companies won't run. DH is off work too, but all around us everything will be business as usual. Hopefully the arthritis will settle enough for me to be able to enjoy it!

Still stressing a little about the hy-co-sy to come... I'm just hoping it won't be as bad as I'm imagining.

BW