Well ... some spiteful parasite kept me away from the blog and made me a frequent visitor to the bog instead for a day or two. .. but I think Penny managed to keep you posted rather well. Anyway having almost recovered I,m back on the bLog. Last night was fun when we were playing cards in our appartment .. a game for four .. when we were joined by a fifth...A SCORPION !! We were very calm about the whole thing and, after a bit of a photo shoot, we roughly removed it with the aid of chairs a broom and a bucket. It was probably about two inches long and of the brown variety, not (apparently) as dangerous as the white four inch monster we saw a few nights before, but that was outside.