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Date: 22 September 2008 12:37:38
We visited Best Man on Saturday and found him in good spirits, though somewhat muddled. He was convinced that either his father or us were there to take him home. We had to explain that he was not yet in any condition to come home.
However he did look much better than when we'd visited him last. It looks like his physio work is paying dividends. It was also a much nicer setting to be in. They even have a day room that they can sit in and watch TV.
Yesterday was a very good day. FW went to chapel and work while I lay in bed coughing, spluttering and sleeping. Wouldn't you believe it, I felt almost 100% better when I woke up this morning. What does a guy need to do to have a day on the sick?
History Today (Yes, it's back):
1776: Nathan Hale, a school teacher and captain in the Continental Army, is executed by the British for spying. He won't do that again!!
1792: France is proclaimed as a republic following the revolution.
1828: Shaka, founder of the Zulu kingdom, is murdered by his two half brothers, Dingane & Mhlangana, after his mental illness threatened to destroy the tribe.
1862: Abraham Lincoln's 'Emancipation Proclamation' frees slaves in the Confederate territories from 1st January. Now you just know that Johnny Reb won't be impressed with that!
1943: British midgets attack and badly damage the German battleship Tirpitz (sounds like a cleaning product) in a Norwegian fjord.
1955: Commercial TV begins broadcasting in the UK.
1975: President Gerald Ford survives an assassination attempt after being shot by Sarah Jane Moore. He had survived an earlier attack that month by Lynette Fromme. And women are the gentler sex?
1980: Saddam Hussein's Iraq invades neighbouring Iran and starts an 8 year war - one of the worst of the 20th Century and that's saying something!! The US & UK are opnly too happy to supply him with gus and other ammunition. You know that they'll regret that!