Hello, everyone. I thought, try and be candid and brief about this, Al, but we'll have to see how that goes. OK, then. I'm about to donate bone marrow. Next few days is about as precise as I'm able to be. Soon. I'm going to tag in @almurray now as he's a great ambassador for this. All of you, please please RT. I never ask for RTs, but this is important.

Hello. My DKMS swabs came the other day, and - look! - I’ve sent them off. Now then.

@MooseAllain When I was growing up, from very early on, in fact the first day we moved into our new house when I was 6, we knew Bert. Bert had introduced himself as we were unpacking on our first day, said hello to my Mum and Dad and patted our dog Honey (Golden Retriever). He was EVER SO old @MooseAllain In fact, I discovered later, twenty odd years later when my Mum wrote his obituary for the local paper, that he was born in 1896. That dates it in itself, Mom being creative and literary and interested enough to write an article for the local rag. I cannot imagine that now.