Kitchen battlefield.

It's calm in our kitchen where the real battles are mostly internalised. Skirmishes do occur for an hour or so each day. We've stopped playing chess, probably because the games took ages and we assiduously played them out to the bitter end. Scrabble/Scarble is still in the repertoire and, recently, the Warhammer pieces bought in Germany two years ago have been assembled and glued. The rules of the game are complex and the mental arithmetic required to play can be daunting. I have a new-found respect for the 'trekie' kids and adults who hang around Games Workshop and actually understand what they're doing. The rule book for our older set is out of print and we purchased one online from an American supplier called Nerdvana.

The results of recent scans have mirrored the results from Germany last December. Both times the MRI suggested something unusual but further tests found no discernable physical basis for symptoms. A local ENT specialist also checked the sinuses and declared, "It's like a Mercedes Benz in there!" The Helios team at Bad Saarow have done an excellent job.