Just a quick post to say that, although I've not contributed much to the best part of Birdforum lately, I've just had time now to go through the threads that I've been missing, and there's been an avalanche of fantastic work to catch up on. Particular congratulations to Tim, Nick and Mike for your awards. Richly deserved in all three cases.
Some of you know that I was living and working in the West Highlands until earlier this year. Life dealt us a rotten blow though and I've had to give up full time work for the moment and return to northern England to support my (young adult) son who developed a brain tumour at the end of last year. He's had surgery, intensive radiotherapy and is now in the middle of chemotherapy, and we're still hopeful of a good outcome at the end of it all, but you can imagine how it's come to dominate every other part of our lives. There are some compensations, though, and there are much worse places to end up than being back in the Lake District.
Anyway, apologies for the lack of comments on your amazing threads, but it's been great working through them to see what's been happening here.
Mike
Some of you know that I was living and working in the West Highlands until earlier this year. Life dealt us a rotten blow though and I've had to give up full time work for the moment and return to northern England to support my (young adult) son who developed a brain tumour at the end of last year. He's had surgery, intensive radiotherapy and is now in the middle of chemotherapy, and we're still hopeful of a good outcome at the end of it all, but you can imagine how it's come to dominate every other part of our lives. There are some compensations, though, and there are much worse places to end up than being back in the Lake District.
Anyway, apologies for the lack of comments on your amazing threads, but it's been great working through them to see what's been happening here.
Mike
