Thank you each and every one. It wasn't all doom and gloom. A good friend came to my rescue.Bringing with him an eight pack of Guinness Draught Alcohol Free Stout. How kind of him. I must admit I may have looked a touched crest falling at the time. You must have to play the sympathy card sometimes when it is to your advantage, ----Well !! it was my 97th Birthday . I don't think I will see that again. Now the winter allowance has gone it may be sooner than I would wish.Not too politcal I hope.Me thinks there is very little that does't have political connotations in our lives now, but then "What's New"