Sounds as though you had shingles in a similar place to my dad, glad you are in tge road to recovery now.

Brian, the venison sounds lovely can I ask where you buy your venison from, we have bought venison from Blagdon Farm Shop quite a few times, at the end of last year I bought some from a dealer in the Borders it was fine but not the best?

Hope you are back to full recovery soon and back at your allotment, my husband spent days last week getting rid of wild honeysuckle, it had totally taken over in one part of our garden, during the process my husband came across a pear tree with fruit on it!!

Take care.