steepholm

Well, I'm out of hospital! There were many good things about the place, including excellent wifi for the most part, but for reasons I can't even guess at I was quite unable to post to, or read, Livejournal for the week of my stay, which was very frustrating!

Not that I'd been planning to squick you out with surgical details, but it would have been nice to keep in touch and all. I did make a couple of Dreamwidth entries, though, here and here.

Tl;dr version is that the surgery went well, and I was well served in convalescence by having politics, the Euros and Wimbledon all happening at the same time, besides the antics of a family of fledgling kestrels just outside my window. I'm now staying with friends in Portsmouth for a few days, before my eventual return to Bristol, where