Hiya Bloggettes, Well thank for you all clicking on my link in this, the lovely World newspaper - my blog was the most read item on last week's site.

(The pic is a rainbow in Widnes, a bad picture courtesy of my camera phone!) My problems with Widnes doctors continues - my GP still won't prescribe salt tablets (needed by ALL people with Cystic Fibrosis) and only gave me five days of MMF (an anti-rejection drug) I finally cracked and complained to the PCT and my consultant in Birmingham has also spoken to the practice manager. Watch this space....and maybe the newspapers.

They also wouldn't give me a vile of blood to send off to Newcastle without a proper blood container, which is fair enough, so I am awaiting one from up north.

Am almost up to where I was before the shingles fitness wise with the swimming and the Wednesday lunchtime table tennis is good fun - if hard work.

I met up with Claire on Friday night and went to the 8 Towers Pub - named after the power station pillars opposite. It is also v.close to the site of the proposed mental unit..... ho hum...

It was full of smoke and had a fair scattering of chavs too...

Anyway. There was a lovely rainbow as I walked down and lots of rain as I walked back.

It was good to catch up with CM....She was the first person I ever met in Widnes!

On Saturday I went back to Staffordshire after my physio session and met Erik and Diana for a balti in Walsall.

On Sunday I went to see a team of Aston Villa Old Boys play Burntwood Dragons at B'Wood Rugby Club.

There were loads of former players, even from the European Cup winning team of 1992. It was great to see the likes of Gordon Cowans , Kevin Poole and Tony Morley at such close quarters...

I am slowly sorting out my holidays. Sarah and I are off to Norfork in August and Katrin is coming over from Germany in July.....

Hope you are all enjoying the cold, wet weather. Big up the underwater Yorkshire massive.

And good luck in the new job to Mr Moran!