Hello Ian P.

Hello Ian, I read carefully and from here I wish you a speedy recovery, especially so that you can make normal life and enjoy what you like. I send you a big greeting and renew my good wishes for You !.

Ian,

We have missed you. I am very sorry to hear about your health issues. I am praying for your full and fast recovery and that it is also as comfortable as possible.

Heal quickly,

Bob

Missed you, Ian(Een).
Hoping some relief comes your way soon.
My frame goes up on blocks July 19th for
3 months. Laminectomy-fusion.
We're not getting old, we're there!
Good to hear from you again.
Bob

I have been wondering about Ian lately, so looked at his profile and see he lurks some--- last on the 16th of Aug

Last we heard, his eye surgery did not go well and that greatly impacted his most excellent work shop design and construction

So here it is

How are you doing brother Ian?
Is miss Lilly growing into the curious interesting character only a Female French Bulldog can?
Concerned friends want to know

I will second that Fred , i read this page sometime back and did not think that we would bee set to the side this long ? We are all concerned of your health my friend !!

Ian has limited internet access up North where he's still working on the bungalow, but the ol' boy is still kicking. He seems in good spirits aside from the expected frustrations many of us have. His legs and knee are giving him hell, but he's actively strengthening them. His eyes have been stabilized, which is a big relief, but still restrict the speed at which he can work. He's a tough dude, and we'll see him back here when he gets his projects in order and acquires a better internet connection. DSL or worse is about what I gather he has now.
Rusty

Thanks Rusty, your answer to our wondering what's going on with Ian should put us at ease. Here some more hopeful/helping/wishes to his return to full active duty.

Yes, thanks for that
Rusty.
  Bob

Thanks for the update Rusty. Been a little worried, good to learn Ian's OK.

Thank you chaps for your thoughts, wishes, emails and PMs. As Rusty said, my internet access is restricted at the moment - I have no line provider and am using 4g with a mobile sim card. It is quite expensive and I am limited to the amount of data I can use - uploads and downloads.

Hence, not my usual flurry of postings and pictures. However, as I am back in London for a few days (medical appointments) - i have set up a "tethered" connection to my PC.

My big problem at the moment is constant pain from my knee and the restriction this is giving me. It hasn't stopped my projects but has slowed me down - things that would normally take me hours are now spread over days!

As a few examples:

I started converting the garage into my outdoor workshop. I insulated and studded the walls then lined it with 8'x2' chipbooard sheets. It took 20 sheets and the most I managed in one day was trimming and fitting three sheets. I laid the floor (same heavy duty vinyl flooring tiles as the "indoor" workshop - all whole tiles laid in one day - edges took me a week. I cannot kneel.

Same when fitting the electrical sockets - cabled as I fitted the lining but restricted myself to two sockets per day.

Last week, I started on dust and fume extraction for the indoor workshop. This involved a 4" hole to the outside for fume extraction. I have a 4" diamond core drill and went through the inner wall in ten minutes. Sat on top of a step ladder comfortably.

Completing the hole from the outside took four hours. Because of the ground level I had to use an ordinary ladder and had to keep stopping.

All the drugs and pain killers I take also take their toll and I am also doing two and a half hours physio exercises a day to stop the muscles around my knee deteriorating.



Progress on the indoor workshop has been slow because of the insistance of SWTSMBO carrying on using it as a kitchen. So there has been a brief departure in my priorities to have a kitchen constructed. Frustratiiiiiingly, I had to contract this out - so apart from the plumbing and the electrickery - this is not my work. I may have been capble of the cabinetry but the granite worktops would have been beyond my abilities.



I have served an eviction notice on SWTSMBO so that I can get on with the workshop. As I travel backwards and forwards from London, I keep loading the car with my equipment ready for installation. Not easy, I have just dismantled my lathe into components that I can carry - now got to work out how to get it in the Mini.

I have not contructed any models or engines recently but have five control liners ready to fly. Unfortunately, I have put these on one side as I cannot manage to spin around.

As I find it difficult to hobble very far I decided to go conpletely to the "Dark side". The garden in the North is but a small triangle but borders open fields - so I got a couple of Drones to keep my RC fingers active.

The small triangle in the middle of the picture is my airfield.



You can just see me at the bottom right in this one.



I am mightily impressed with these Droney things . This was the DJI Spark.

Nevertheless, I am still having a few disasters with my mobility -  I stumbled and bashed my arm/wrist ending up with this.



I thank you all again for your thoughts and once I have decent internet will return regularly. I try to keep up but this site is abit of a  data eater.

I have been through the physiotherapy regime and am now scheduled to see a surgeon in October.

Here are the doggies watching the drone while it lifts off and posing for their photos being taken. It does not bother them at all.

Ian, Thanks for the update. Sorry to hear of your continued physical maladies... I fully understand your slower than normal work output. I'm definitely not as fast nor as flexible as I was just a few years ago.  Looks like you have quite the pharmaceutical collection there. Hopefully your (5) doctors are all aware  of the medicine(s) your are taking along with the ones each has prescribed.  Has a humorous reminder that Naproxen is a "Non Selective COX inhibitor".  Seems to be working, cause your flying drones, not COX engines or airplanes!    wishing for your full and speedy recovery!  

PS: the kitchen looks wonderful. Those granite surfaces are not the easiest material to cut, move the or install. Should last a lifetime (or two)

Thank you Ian for checking in
Certainly can relate to projects that took hours now taking days or weeks

I forget your other dogs name but Miss Lilly sure is a cutie

I assume the two photos are from the drone... impressive
Need to see about getting one for good over head property survey of my little slice of Texas
That, and for years I have though a drone could drag/drop a light string over the tops of trees so I could drag an antenna wire way up in the tops

The kitchen looks good.
I managed to do ours a few years back but did contract out the Granite work. Center Island slab at 5' x 7' x 1.75" thick was 980Lbs