You know that horrible feeling when you can’t find something. Your car keys. Phone. The credit card that you’re SURE you put back in the wallet. And that causes great discomfort, anxiety. The world can’t sit square on its axis until you’ve found that banana which you KNOW you put in your gym bag and now it’s gone! (Though in that last instance the solution is probably ‘Joey ate it’).

Well how do you think my brother feels? When he went into hospital 4 weeks ago with a suspected ‘perforation’. Somewhere in his gut. Address unknown. But they know there’s a leak because he contracted sepsis from it which has nearly killed him and without getting overly dramatic, may yet do so. Yet they can’t find it. Its ‘lost’. Where did I put that wretched perforation?

Last night they found it. Fly a fucking flag and raise a glass in toast; the perforation has been not just found but REMOVED!!! Along with a bit of his colon to which it was attached. The only news which could actually be better than this is that he actually survived the surgery. Because it was very doubtful that he would. And it’s still ‘early days’ with regards to that, before we start thinking about giving him his own tv ‘survival’ series, like Bear Gryllis. Ok, not the best example.

But essentially, now that the actual problem has been rectified, if he does survive this, he can actually start to get better. Lose the ventilator. Speak again (I bet he’ll moan, so typical!). Maybe one day… eat a curry!!! The sky’s the limit. Though really I should come with a severe ‘optimism warning!’, but just because they’ve actually done something positive. All that life support’s great (only if you want to stay alive) but this is affirmative action, and we love that.

I’m going to see him later to tell him about Kier Starmer. Richard needs to know. That ‘the Labour Party is in crisis!!!’, according to the Times. Yet again. Because of antisemitism. And it’s pretty much reached the point where you can’t be a Labour supporter unless you are antisemitic. And then the leader will ban you on grounds of antisemitism. Thus they’ll very soon have no candidates left, except Wes Streeting, and no voters for the next election because they’ll all be supporting the DESTROY ISRAEL AND ALL JEWS party, probably led by George Galloway and Jeremy Corbyn.

This photo was taken in about 1975. That year was all about lapels. Not sayin’ I’m proud of it, we can’t judge history by contemporary standards.

Keep up the praying. Seems to be working. In ways we don’t understand (twilight zone music, per-lease)

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx