My shoulder is still in agony but I'm seeing someone new about it- the brother of my friend who recently got married.

Fortunately he's really good, and knows his stuff, and is determined I can live without surgery etc simply by working my shoulder and strengthening it through exercise. Unfortunately his motto (though he may just be saying this to make me want to cry) is 'bully the body to be good'. Also unfortunately he comes to me so unless I begin pretending I'm not in, or have moved house, I can't get out of seeing him.

As I'm not up to beading, or much else, I consoled myself with rooting out the quilt I began a while ago wanting to see if I still liked the colours I'd chosen and if I thought I could continue with it. I still like it- though am thinking I might veer off track and alter the design to add in lots of white to stop the jumble of colour and pattern. But as I've never done anything like this before I may be being too optimistic.

As soon as I have the strength to get my sewing machine I'm going to dive in and see what happens.