For the last three or four weeks Síle and I have been taking a daily stroll down the valley road, then through the vines, up around the cemetery and home. One of the reasons this route was picked was because it is littered with convenient benches where I could (and did) take breathers. Today for the first time I felt healthy enough to pass the benches without stopping. While I was congratulating myself on this a car stopped by us, it was one of the village nurses who had taken such good care of me for the first few weeks after hospital.
“Ca Va ?” he enquired.
I answered truthfully ( if a little ungramatically) “Je suis Top !”.
He grinned and drove on.

Truth is that I am truly feeling great, marvellous feeling after six weeks of being under the weather.