So it’s been three weeks since I last posted on here appearently. It’s flown by.

It transpired that Jo didn’t have the mumps, instead she had an infection in her salivary glands and this then caused an abcess in her submandibular gland which had to be operated on under a GA.

She’s a lot better now, thankfully.

Other than that, I had another set of “symptoms” kick my ass during the week, but it seems to have passed now. I had the pins and needles in my right hand, mainly in my palm, for about 3 days, plus I had myokymia in my right eye for a day and my balance went a little haywire in the middle of it all. Hey ho.

Things currently appear to have calmed down. I’m now remembering how to play the Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin, which I’ve remembered three quarters of during the week; I learnt it many years ago but have forgotten it, and since I don’t read music that well and learn everything by ear, it takes me a few days to remember it all again. But I’m getting there. After that, I’ve decided to learn Fantaisie-Impromptu by Chopin, mainly because it sounds dead tricky but I suspect it probably isn’t.

And finally… I have been watching avidly as Federer gets knocked off his World #1 position. What I couldn’t understand was why the entire planet had forgotten how to work out ATP rankings as everyone, including the ATP themselves, seemed to think that Nadal needed to win in Cincinnati to get World #1 when Fed went out early. I spent a couple of days wondering whether I just couldn’t add until everyone then realised that players drop points when they do worse in a tournament compared to last year. So I felt a little better after that. And watching Murray demolish his opponents on his way to the final has been somewhat handy, especially because it was only a couple of months ago I was wondering whether his temper was going to get the better of him. Today he plays Novak in the final, and it could go either way, to be honest. I’m sitting on the fence on this one for a change.

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