Hi there Just,
All sorted. GP agreed to give me a 3-monthly to save all the trouble. It
will be four days early. He says that will not be a problem.
Thanks for your efforts for me.
Hughie

Hi Just me lad,
Machine sorted and just in time. Derek says it's all OK now.
YES - Please send me your Mobile number in case something goes awry.
Much app-reciated my man.
MIGHT be coming down to your neck of the woods - but not yet guaranteed.
Be Great to meet up, sup beer! - Eat sausages - see who surrenders first!
Nothing guaranteed Just - this is WORK.
Possibly allowing you to pay for my lunch of Galician Mussels? I am joking
of course!
Please let me settle a few days,
I might very well manage a few days of hiking away from work nearer Easter,
but I was asked to go to work for the Easter Kill and I'm now very good at
calming the animals before they go through the short tunnel (I sit on my a.s 
and pet them) and it's all piggies that have been raised together in the
same family AS a family - up to eight or nine food animals at ten month
readiness. I usually spend two to three days in the sty's with the animals,
sussing them out.
Taken one at a time to a very decent slaughter, the piggiues feel nothing at
all. NO panics and no squeals.
I feel my own part in their dispatch as food for ME a very religious thing
and thank my God for the given Dominion.
It is VERY Bloody and at times you feel ashamed.
To look into the lifeless eyes of a five minute past animal that grunted
with happiness and licked you with vigour, friendliness and lots of life -
it hurts - a lot and you start to wonder if a grilled chop is worth all the
trouble and death.
Might you be up for that?
(Nothing promised)

Hi Steve, leaving this coming Monday, 26th.
Supposed to have just been a fortnight but may stay a month now, Braga is
real nice and the sea isn't too far away.
Going by bus & ferry - Plymouth to Santander as I'm not supposed to fly
(Cardiac & 'G' forces thing)
Travelling back from Braga to Santiago de Compastella to see the Easter
Sunday service in the Cathedral there. They swing huge containers of incense
from one end of the church to the other - counterbalanced by choirboys who
are hurled on the end of ropes the opposite way. Should be fun.
Pretending this is a giant Vitamin D Pill...
Hughie.

I had my sausages and a ham wrapped in papers inside an insulated cool box
with dry ice. They said it was because they were "Loose" and not Vacuum
packed and properly labelled. The Spanish customs weren't interested. UK -
certain foods cannot be imported if not properly labelled and with country
of origin veterinary & food safety stamps on the vacuum sealed pack. It was
the thought that I had carried these all the way from Braga only to be
stumped at the last hurdle. I was so angry and as I said - Bastards probably
ate them themselves.
Anyway OFF on Monday morning to Plymouth and then the Ferry, then blissful
sunshine and some physical work, that I reckon I need.
I won't be posting again till I get back - whenever. The computer needs a
cleaning out and I'm not too clever about that, so one of my boys who's
staying to look after the Cat is starting it tomorrow with a scrub of the
drives. (The kitty GONE and Tiger looking in cupboards and singing sad
songs)
Keep well - all of you.
HUGHIE.