To all of you who don’t know yet – we were just tricking! We haven’t left for the U.S. and given the current date and the benefit dinner on the 28th March we now won’t leave until April. Mike is still pretty sick but the week in hospital seems to have killed the bug … hopefully when he finishes this course of anti-biotics he will start feeling a bit better.

In short, this means that we are still around and will be taking it pretty easy (on doctors advise — see, sometimes we do listen!!) for the next couple of weeks. I am finally giving in today and am going to unpack! We’ll put it down to a practice run and we’re sure to do better next time – I certainly won’t be getting medical supplies to day before we are due to fly and packing until 1am! The blue house is open to visitors so feel free to drop in whenever – for the next few days Mike is enjoying a nanna-nap sometime in the middle of the day but I think he is very keen to catchup with people and even go for a ride or two over the coming weeks and weekends.  We need to get his spirits back up again and get him back enjoying life.

Anyway, the benefit dinner is coming along really well so make sure you put the 28th March in your calendar. Ticket details will be out soon but it promises to be a great night. Thanks to Anthony for all his great work on this and to Robbo for offering to be a guest speaker – what an awesome gesture- thankyou! Hopefully we will be leaving fairly soon after this event to start up at Project Walk so come along and make sure we leave this time!

Not much else to report at present as Mike is being lazy and I am taking the opportunity to organise the house and try to get it a bit clean. We are also trying to get the house modifications going along so that Mike doesn’t fall the laundry/bathroom floor once it starts rotting away from our hasty mods! I am also very keen for him to be able to get his chair in to Ash’s room so that he can read her bedtime stories again so that I get a rest!

Don’t forget to pick up your cycle kit at CBD or Spoke(n) stores or e-mail me at monica@michaelforbes.org if you want a set.