Since I first built this site a lot of events have passed both personally and worldwide, covid being the main challenge for many; having catapulted many businesses into profit others have floundered.

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Personally, my heart has been playing up!  A simple change of defibrillator/pacemaker during June 2020 (its battery was about to run out) brought about more tests that discovered a faulty mitral valve.

It also explained why I was always last in any school sports day running event...

A successful surgery was carried out to repair the valve but unfortunately, during surgery, I suffered a stroke which affected all my left side and part of my right.

If you suffered Rheumatic Fever and Strep throat as a child please see your Doctor as, in some cases, it can damage your heart muscle.

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Although this has put paid to my writing/typing ability all is not lost...at school I excelled in Art; it was hoped I would enrol at Art College but life does not always follow the paths you plan...so all was forgotten, until the stroke.

Trying to accept what I now cannot do has been very depressing until I remembered the skill I had enjoyed so much in my teens then realized I could rekindle that skill.  So, I have started to paint again, concentrating on watercolour and I'll be uploading some of my pictures once my hand and finger dexterity and website skills improve!

And, in time, I hope the areas affected by the stroke will recover.

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