20-00 hrs: Went streakering this morning and am beginning to feel at one with the boat. Righted a capsize and got back in easily. Lots of muscles I did not know I had are now aching. Excellent fun. And have done very little since apart from look at piles of books on the flooir in the hope that they will put themselves onto shelves.

Week in Woodbridge 7

a.m.: to the gym, which was crowded and my muscles tired from yesterday, but came out feeling better. Now settling down to do something useful - - namely a re-organisation of the books, files and other stuff in my room.

20-20 hrs: I spent the afternoon at B&Q getting shelves and other bits to help with the tidy-up. I fear it is displacement activity to avoid tax and writing! Spent time since I got back making the shlves and carrying files and books around - it has to be done I suppose.

Week in Woodbridge 6

a.m. Off to accompany trainee sailors in Wayfarers downstream - over the tide - to have a picnic at 'the Rocks' with lots of warm clothes and food  packed.

I drove the big DYC Safety boat - with bouys, bags of food and much else.
We had two Ribs with us as well

19-45: just back - missing Dr Who. An interesting day with wind gusting 20 to 30 knots - several boats under jib alone going at 5.5 knots - with the tide - on the way back. More harmless fun.

Week in Woodbridge 5

The central part of Woodbridge - covering my normal stamping grounds.
The sailing club is just off the map, downstream  to the left.
Copyright  John Roberts, Top Floor Studio, Woodbridge.

a.m. The gym before anything else - usual beneficial effect on well-being. Indigestion all night due to eating too much too late yesterday - dodgy digestion came back during the day from time to time - proof that side-effects need to be respected.

And the rest of the day - did things at home, cycled to the Tidemill (to get some screws from the boat and also had a pleasant chat with a boat owner who has just moved here) - then to the sailmakers (to get some rope for righting lines) and to the shops (for food). Back home - lots of minor domestic things and a few emails. Also took an hour and a half (and two drills) to drill two holes in the Streaker's rudder so that I can fit a better way to hold the rudder down and also get it up in shallow water. Nothing dramatic - and very little  stirring of the mud

Week in Woodbridge 4

a.m. Today we have - - things to do to put off the hour of writing documents. Easier because the weather is overcast and cold, so I am not tempted to go out into the sun. A pleasant morning writing letters and surfing the web for dinghy goodies.This day two years ago I had arrived in Wells. I still feel - what is the word - disturbed at not living that life anymore - like mud at the bottom of a pool being disturbed if prodded. Maybe I will buy some dinghy goodies as consolation - - -which I did. And spent the afternoon mooching in the shops and avoiding heavy rain showers. 

Start of evening race seen from the clubhouse - just after the start gun.
The start line is the two white dots on the far bank and the fleet are heading into the wind and current - so is there a reason for being shy of the line?

 Evening racing - I thought it would be too windy so did not take my gear. Spent the rest of the evening eating and looking at rigging on streakers.

Week in Woodbridge 3

a.m. Not sure how to spend the day - sunshine forecast so am temped by the beach. In the end - decide I need to recoup strength, so go to the gym and plan to do useful things in the sun. The gym - a life-saver and an important part of my life here; I try to go every other day. I do a varied routine of resistance training using free weights which normally takes about an hour to an hour and a quarter. At the moment I am gradually increasing the range of what I do and the weights I use, so it also confirms my general well-being or otherwise.

But some unease inside - two years ago I ran away to sea but only got as far as Woodbridge. I did intend to go much further and have to be careful not to rage that it has not been possible. Why not rage? - good question - I feel that I have landed up somewhere with a better lifestyle than I had before - interesting sailing, different boats and two bathrooms - so I would not be respecting my life if I did too much weeping and gnashing of teeth. But - - - -

21-30: I have spent the whole day doing various small things - mostly in the sun - and (probably) avoiding doing some writing. It is often thus. All the trivia - including putting out the rubbish, mending a sail, looking at boats,cooking a batch of fish pies, buying things and gossiping to various people about all sorts of things like how to make vegetable stock out of broad bean and pea shells. But I did put in two hours on the U3A web site updating a lot of articles about interest groups.

Week in Woodbridge 2

the beach with pebbles and waves: to cheer me up

21.15: Tuesday - a different day - reaction to several busy days. A lot of sun and a cold wind. 

Slept badly and got up feeling feeble and continued to feel out of sorts all day. I got to the marina for 9-00 in order to give Richard some bits of boat to be collected by a rigger. Then did nothing and dozed fitfully in the cockpit but I did sort out the boot of the car to leave room for picnic things for beach visits. Got home for lunch - watched a bit of TV - lazed around and did nothing.

I intended to sail the streaker in the evening - so I went to the sailing club with my gear at 17-00 but I really did not feel like it. I did help someone rig their boat and mend a small gash in my sail. Had some coffee and a wee chat and came home. Watched TV whilst I made and ate supper. Relunctant to go to bed incase I don't sleep and cannot be bothered to do any web work or documentation. So it is not all rush-around in Woodbridge.

Week in Woodbridge 1

From Bawdsey beach - looking upstream across the Deben to Felixstow Ferry;
sea kale in flower in the foreground

20-50 hrs: I do not expect this week to be typical - for one thing there is more wind and sun forecast than usual. And I plan to do more sailing things than usual.

Monday - to the gym (geology group not meeting today) and then packed a load of beach-survival-things to go to the beach to look at the waves and gravel. But a lot of fussing around the flat - clearing the gear from being on rescue yesterday, filing papers, answering a couple of emails. I make it out eventually and go to the shops on the way  to Bawdsey Quay, (about 8 miles away) where I park the car overlooking the river - eat - drink coffee - watch the waves - usual things. Both an early and a late lunch.

Eventually walked out to the beach along the footpath - put on a lot of clothes due to strong and cold wind. The waves in the river almost show in the picture. Took pictures of sea kale, gravel, waves and a few plants. Collected two kilo of gravel for an experiment (of which more later - but probably unsuccessful). Returned to the car and grossed out in the tea room. Then back to Woodbridge. 

Nothing much since apart from eating a small supper (due to a lot of eating during the day) and doing some editing on the U3A website - it needs to be done asap.

the keel on the ground - ignore the ladder

11-00 hrs: The keel runs up and down on runners on each side - the red arrow points to one of them. The blue strap winds the keel up and down from inside the boat, through the slot at the bottom ( a red arrow points to this). 

What stops it falling out? Answer - nothing apart from the strap. It may have rested on the fitting that holds the slot gasket in place.

The design is for a nylon bush to be fitted at approximately the place of the round red circle. This then catches on a ridge in the keel casing and stops it falling out. Nice. But - mine did not have one. It does now,  the Tidemill staff made and fitted one before the keel was put back.

But - you may say - how do I get it out next time I need to inspect it? Good question - the nylon bush unbolts through holes in the keel case inside - necessitating the removal of a lot of woodwork and the galley to get at it - so a non-trivial thing to do. But feasable.

At least I am not going to have the keel fall out of the bottom next time I do something daft. And I better understand the whole mechanism as a result of all this.

Sloes

11-15 hrs: They are fat and nice near water but those in dry areas do not seem to be so good. They also seem quite early - as are the elder flowers.

The keel - and the gasket. Note the runners at the top and the blue tape

The slot. The blue tape is used to wind it up.
The marks of the runners show along the edge of the hole.
There is a fitting to go into the grotty part.

13-15 hrs: Good stuff. The keel is back in having been checked over and some re-furbishment done. There was a lot more to doing this than a simple statement suggests. And Richard did some cool crane-driving to position the boat to get the keel back in - and the staff did a lot of positioning of the keel as well. More to it than meets the eye. I did not have my camera on me when it happened - - - .

Now - a new slot gasket which means another ride on the crane - probably middle of next week.

I will also tell you in another post what stops it falling out of the bottom of the boat other than the blue tape.

Lookfar is lifted high enough to get the keel out. Getting it back in was the fun part as it is pretty heavy.

13-40 hrs: This is really a picture of the crane. The keel is out for inspection and I hope to have a repair plan soon. 

Last week - a lot of hanging around - and an infection in my right eye. Weather dull but warm except for cold winds - trouser weather - good bye balmy days of early summer.

my streaker and DYC dinghy park

16-00 hrs: I have not forgotten you all - or how to capsize. (Last time I capsized - maybe three years ago). I went streaking a couple of times and finished up being tipped into the river by a mooring yesterday.  Righted the boat without trouble but then found - - - I could not get back into it. Much effort and use of the safety cover got me ashore eventually. And note this - you sailors in the North - it was like falling into a bath - it was not really cold at all (I had three thermals, a watertight jacket and short wetsuit). Fun - fun - fun. I now need to make a ladder to get myself aboard and do a lot more dinghy sailing - I had forgotten what pleasure it is - -

Life here is sunny and windy, - shorts/tee shirt weather. The battallions of  side effects are under control, I have sat around on the beach and done nice things. I also have had (including the capsize) epic sailing in the streaker. Lookfar is waiting the be lifted by the big crane and I have done a few improvements to the rigging. I have mostly kept out of trouble.

 

 

 

Gravel bank at the mouth of the river Deben - looking seawards.

20-00 hrs: It has been very windy and sunny all weekend. I walked out onto the gravel banks at the mouth of the Deben and then along the beach. Rough sea and cold wind - but I found sheltered places to gross out. Much needed after the excesses of last week.

the keel

11-00 hrs: The picture does not show the problem (which is inside) - it will have to be lifted on a crane and the keel dropped out. There is a holding plate for a gasket to be removed and renovated as well.

I do not know whether to do some useful things whilst it is out of the water (I have a long list) or whether to sulk off somewhere and pretend it never happened. But both the surveyor and the yard have said not to worry - it will be fine. At least it is only money and at least it has been found before other damage is done. And I have seen a kestrel from the cockpit - several times.

Lift-off  yesterday

The view from my cockpit this afternoon.

20-55hrs: I had the boat lifted for a survey - theory was it went back in this morning. Unfortunately the lifting keel is missing some plastic bits on which it runs - so the boat is resting on shore for a couple of weeks until the marina has time to lift it and inspect the keel fully. 

Today, yesterday and the day before were taken up with this, although not all the time. I managed to get very cold - to lie in the sun - to eat too much and to wander around. Upsetting - and probably expensive - but that is sailing for you - - . 

20-20 hrs: streaking this afternoon for the first time. Hot day - short wetsuit and no spraytop. Not much wind. No pictures as I was busy doing it.

The streaker is the best dinghy (apart from the fireball) that I have ever sailed - wonderful and it will get better when the wind increases. It slides through the water and has more space than the laser. And I managed to land on our narrow ramp without problem. Quite energy-intensive of course.

Spring in Woodbridge

20-20 hrs: Spring here is marked by the launching of boats. This a wonderful wooden ketch - with many original features and probably the largest our crane lifts. Spent most of the day messing about in boats and talking to boaters. The weather is like the Mediterranean.

20-30 hrs. A strange ten days or so - in which I did quite a few things around boats but also did not feel that I wanted to write about the activity because I actually felt quite inactive - so the list of actions makes me sound healthier and better than I am actually feeling.

I now own a streaker - and I have spent a bit of time scrubbing it and its cover - and mending the centre board and the cover. The toe strap came off - glad it was ashore! It was mostly in sunshine - sitting on a chair borrowed from the sailing club. The sun encouraged the wearing of sun hat and shorts.

I have sailed out in Lookfar a couple of times. Once to park it at the sailing club overnight so that Aidan and I could go downriver for lunch. This we did on Saturday - went too far and only just made it back to the marina where we scrunched the keel over the sill - like I have done before and ought to know better. Today's panic was to arrange a survey so that the insurance company is happy. Job for Thursday is that I need to make sure that there are no obvious nasties for the survey to spot.

Rescue on Sunday. Various things done to boats on Monday and today. Spring is starting on the river as a few boats are getting launched now onto their moorings.

I have felt quite inactive and even poorly on occasions - it feels as if the side effects of Tarceva - especiually indigestion and general upset digestion - are getting the upper hand. Today I went to the GP and got some help with this and now feel a bit better.

The rest of the week - I cannot sail Lookfar until the insurance is sorted out - but there is lots more boat-fettling to do. Hope to sail the streaker for the first time on Saturday.

Streakers at an Open meeting.
A Holt design - (same designer as the Enterprise and Solo) - double chines - originally (and best) in wood.

10-30 hrs:  Whatever next?
I have bought an early GRP one with a lower sail number than those in the picture - no nice wooden decks to varnish every year - - - . But ready to sail from the Club dinghy park when all the money and paperwork is exchanged. And the wind blows and the sun shines of course.
http://www.streaker-class.org.uk/index.php

I don't know whether I will have the energy to race it - but it is a lot lighter than the Laser and it also has sensible control lines and the mast remains stepped all the time. I miss the fun of a dinghy - so here we go - - . 
I now have lasers for sale!

The  boats used for RYA powerboat course at the sailing club.

19-50: Two days (Monday and Tuesday) on the river driving the RIB and the other club boat with two other members and the instructor. Fun - and I learnt a few things.  We have passed the RYA level 2 powerboat course. I was quite tired by the end but paced myself so that I managed OK. It was very cold with some stong winds and tidal currents. Also proof that the recent dip in energy is improving for the time being.

Prior's Haven, Tynemouth - repair due to the road  having been washed away

19-15 hrs: Tynemouth sailing club launch their boats over the ramp. Winter storms undermined the beach where the person in green wellies is standing - which was dug back into place by a beach party. Storms also removed a lot of the concrete - here being replaced. I put this here for comparison with launching into the river and to show my friends in the North that I still care about what happens. Thanks for the photo.

Lookfar on pontoon today - wind gusting to 45 mph.

21-35 hrs: Only the main sail needs to be put on for it all to happen. Note the sleek shape and that the cockpit is good for grossing out in the sun, as I did this afternooon.

Sloe flowers - 30th March: where we picked actual sloes in the autumn - see 19th September.

15-50 hrs: now all they have to do is to set fruit and grow - and avoid being picked by other people.

11-50 hrs: in Cafe Nero - wonders of OpenZone connectivity and a netbook.

Lookfar snug on her mooring with the furling foresail attached and the deck scrubbed. Much chaos below decks as the main sail still needs to be attached and the gear sorted out. To be done in sunshine - in due course. No actual sailing until the weather is suitable - whatever that means.

The launch - in beautiful weather - at an unearthly hour -

17-10 hrs:  - - and with no problems. Tidied up and sat around in the sun much of the day - but it was tiring as I got up at 7-00!

Lookfar held on the crane so that I can paint the keel before launch.

20-10 hrs> Happiness and exhaustion are boat shaped.

Spent all day doing things to the boat ready for launch tomorrow at 8-30am. Very pleasurable - very tiring - and hot sunshine.
And also explains why I have not written any emails of late. 

- - Back to 'normal' - - three nice days

Friday - antifouling on Lookfar.
Yesterday - hung curtains and did gardening with Aidan in London (and watched frog spawn (which did not do anything of course)). 
Today - rescue duty on the River Deben - light wind so no-one to rescue, but I drove a rib up and down the river and avoided getting cold. Bacon butty for lunch.

Lookfar in winter - the hull cleaned and ready for anti-fouling.
A minnow nestled amongst  grown-up boats.
The one behind has propellers the size and cost of my whole engine - -

16-00 hrs: The hull has since been polished - and is even more ready for the water than shown here. Tomorrow - we have the painting of antifouling.

Today -we have  tidying the flat. This is to make it ready for the annual inspection by the rental agent. Goodness knows what they will make of all the gear lying around but I have moved the ropes and rudder out of the bath and onto the boat. And then - the sailing and the polishing of the topsides and the sailing and the sealing of wood. Mostly sailing I hope.

Nothing annoying here - - - 

Where are all the wigeon gone - - - -

9-40 hrs: I have only walked the river bank a few times lately - and only seen two wigeon - so I assume they have gone off somewhere exotic to lay eggs and generally work hard. There are fewer birds feeding along the river than usual - which I take as a subtle change ready for spring. There are lots of flowers on the sloe bushes - all ready to produce fruit for us to collect later in the year.

And my boat - still uncleaned - but I am going to get it in the water this month - so I can sit on it in the sun. I have not felt like doing it lately. Yesterday - rescue team training at the sailing club - mostly sitting on boats in the sun, giving my opinion about when to drop an anchor and drinking tea - fun.

I have not felt like writing for a while. I don't know if spending a couple of days on the Forums was too much for the system! But also I have been feeling less well for a few weeks and ran into the circular problem of living for the moment. If you live for the day - then there is no tomorrow - so you have to do everything today - and get exhausted and depressed as a result of not being able to do it all. I seem to have anemia as a side effect of Tarceva. It also seems that eating lots of beef (nice) and liver (ugh) does not do the trick because the Tarceva interfers with the development of red blood cells. Planning to do fewer annoying things - we will see - - -

Support Forums

11-00 hrs: I have spent a couple of days behaving as if I were not retired. I was asked a question about something from one of my documents. In answering it I find that various changes had been made to a download from xampp. So - much reading of various Forums and scratching of head. No solution apart from finding and using the older version. I have never really followed Forums and signed up to them, as I have not used Open Source software much. Very easy to get distracted into readng all sorts of stuff - but a new experience.

But - And - it reminded me that, although this stuff is maddening - it also taxes the grey cells. This is what I liked about working and why I do not like retirement - even after 2 1/2 years.

In the home - -

New sewing machine and a pile of curtains

10-00 hrs: The old one gave up the struggle, so I went to Ipswich, found both a car park and the machine shop. Hours of harmless fun creating curtains.

In the wild - -

A kingfisher - sitting in reeds next to a stream alongside the railway

13-50: Seen along the path to the river, by the railway crossing. It stayed put for a long time and only left when I moved a bit near. I have never seen one so close and just sitting. Awesome.

Released into the wild - Joomla! Getting Started docs

 

9-00 hrs:   http://docs.joomla.org/  Under Getting Started. Hope it is not too wild where they are - and that people like them. 

Now all I have to do is re-write them all for the new version. Scary.

OpenZone hotspots in the Woodbridge area

9-45: hrs. The end of this week marks 18 months since I was diagnosed with Lung cancer. I have some vague sense that this is a sort-of birthday. So a treat is in order. I am now going to wander round some of the hotspots here to see if my netbook will connect to BT OpenZone. There do not seem to be hotspots along the river bank, so I shall visit a few shops and coffee bars and take it as a good sign if it does not rain and a bonus if there is a sunny interval.

17-20 hrs: My small part of the Joomla! documentation project - - progresses. This might be the most important thing I have written - -  ever.

I have now done a bunch of 'How to - -' do things documents about starting to use Joomla! They are not finished because they are never finished. They are in the same format as Wikipedia - so I can go on editing them for ever. Unlike a book - they don't get copy-edited but they do get seen rather sooner.

I have spent a lot of time editing and writing these - which is one reason I have not written as many blogs as I would have liked. They are due to be released into the wild - that is to say - linked from the main Joomla! site - maybe the end of the week. This is the importance because thousands of people use the site.

Joomla! is free at the point of download. It is a Content Management System - used for - um - managing the content and layout of lots of web sites world-wide. Some small business, clubs, associations use it - as do bigger outfits. More on this and the ecosystem that is Joomla! in another post.

And the small logos - well - I had no sooner finished the main text than - guess what - they released a new version which is significantly different. So much angst about how to write for both in one go. Infact I am writing two different pathways (ie versions) to avoid frightening the audience.

11-20 hrs: Into the sunset of retirement - - you know who you are - -  I am sorry not to join you for the parties and celebrations. I am there in spirit. Enjoy them all - and what you have worked for so long and so hard - - .

Tender to Lookfar

17-20 hrs: admire- - ready for the summer exploration of East Anglian rivers.

I have been after a small tender for the boat for ages - the concept is to be able to row ashore short distances without getting wet.

All I need now is - energy to paint rudder - energy to clean hull - energy to put anti fouling on hull - money to get a few luxuries - nice weather  -- and away I go - -

Snowdrops encircle a fine horse-chestnut tree in local woodland.

9-50 hrs:  Note the sunshine in the background. There are other signs of spring - winter aconites, swelling buds, catkins;  but no sailing activity on the river yet.

I continue to fettle boats, visit the gym for a new and better regime, visit the river banks and ponder the future, alongside the usual domestic trivia. Most of my focus is on the Joomla! documentation project - of which more later.

12-20 hrs: See resonance from Monday

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;

....
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot

================== and then =============
Poem in Memoriam T. S Eliot, Adrian Henry
I'd been out the night before & hadn't seen the papers or the telly
& next day in a cafe someone told me you had died
....
and I did not know what to feel

For years I measured out my life with your coffeespoons

9-25 hrs. Instead of working on Joomla! I am watching this - Bell Rock - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00y6hym/The_Lighthouse_Stevensons/

Forests

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing

This may or maynot have been said by Burke - but apply it to forests.

The plan to sell forests - a really bad thing.

Please be consulted - http://www.forestry.gov.uk/england-pfeconsultation

and sign the petition at http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/Pages/default.aspx

It is selling the family silver (or in this case wood - but no less valued) 

Happy birthday Bell Rock lighthouse - 200 years old today

The Bell Rock in 2006 - at high water -  from Iris May on the way  from Peterhead to Anstruther.

19-50 hrs: This does justice to the grandeur - but not to the rough sea that day. But I recall it as a fine sail and put it here in celebration of 200 years since it was completed. Work had started in 1807. Amazing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00y6hym/The_Lighthouse_Stevensons/

16-00 hrs: I have spent all day writing and editing Joomla! documentation. What I call - the Joomla! project. It would be nice to be able to release it into the wild sooner rather than later.

I have not really drunk a lot of coffee but it signifies something about measuring out life.

Wigeon. They hang out along the river on grassy knolls that cover at high water springs. Nice.

21-00 hrs: I do not want you to assume anything in particlar about how I am getting on. This is a bit unfair as I tend to tell you about what I am doing, which always makes me sound a lot more active and positive than I feel. I find it hard to write about anything else  - . So I tell you that last week was focussed on my Joomla! documentation project, interspersed with shopping and cooking and walks along the river and various worries.

But the important thing is that I have been wondering (at some length and in some depth) about what I would be doing if I were normally healthy. This leads me to alternately want to plan ahead and not to plan ahead. 

I rather think the pictures with my two previous posts are significant as an indication of looking ahead and not having a fixed point.

21-00 hrs: Orford beach - only accessible by boat. To the left - the open sea:  to the right - the River Ore.
I went on a river trip for an hour - wearing every stitch of clothing I could get into. http://www.orfordrivertrips.co.uk/ The boat was picking up fishermen - so I got to go ashore for a walk.  Good stuff and continues to convince readers that I am really living a holiday-life here. But I had done three hours writing documentation before I left.

12-25 hrs: Looking downstream along the river wall downstream from Woodbridge. To the left - the river with wigeon feeding on the grassy patches. To the right - pasture with wigeon on the flooded pools. I wonder if they nest here later in the year. The pasture is slightly saline and grazed by large cattle.

I often walk along this path - sometimes it is quiet and empty - at others it is too crowded.

18-00 hours: I took this today alongside a building near the river, where it has been in sight for some days. Shows something about the weather round here I suppose, which is now a lot warmer than it has been. Not many other green shoots around - but I have seen pussy-willow.

15-40 hours: This is a reconstruction of  Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii - one of the most common plants in the Rhynie ecosystem (about 400 million years ago).

I have no idea why I have not posted something for so long. It is not that I have been doing lots of significant things. But after New Year various things have turned up - like going to Ipswich hospital for an Xray (taking an hour or so - hardly a reason for not writing). A combination of getting yet more stuff out of my boat, scrubbing the bottom of boats at the sailing club, sanding my rudder in the bath, trying to write documentation, trying to 'do' plant fossils, having visitors and doing the normal things of life. 

The reconstruction is of  Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii - a member of an extinct group of primitive plants called the rhyniophytes, characterised by simple branching and naked stems.  But why is this here? - I have been torturing the brain trying to understand things about plant evolution- for the U3A geology group. We have now reached the Devonian. There are some cherts (from the village of Rhynie in north east Scotland, about 50km north west of Aberdeen) with a whole ecosystem preserved in detail in the chert. And I am unfamiliar with all the concepts and all the vocabulary - - .

And what about 2011 - -

9-00 hrs: - - we don't know! - - so the usual wishes that it turns out better than other years. 

One thing I am doing - I am writing some 'hands-on' documentation for people getting started using Joomla! I have been intending to tell you about this for some time because it is now central to my life. It is difficult and has made a great improvement to my general well-being. I have not felt bored since I started doing it for real.  And I feel more alive - doing something new and somehow real. This is all supported by the new medication, Tarceva. But my feeling of well-being has gone up since I started this writing. Strange and understandable.

Things done so far start here:-

http://docs.joomla.org/Joomla!_Getting_Started_Manual

I had to learn another mark-up language for the wiki layout - and I am supposed to write in short sentances - so it does nothing for literary style - sigh.

I notice I have not said what Jooma! does - I leave that for another post.