After a long break: explaining the next sequence of posts

I write this blog in the full knowledge that it's rarely accessed right now other than by me.  One or two friends know about it but I've done nothing to draw the world's attention to it; that may change.  I may eventually draw the material into some sort of book or at least presentation when the saga is over, whenever however it may end.  For now, it's just here for me; but in case anyone does stumble across it, or to those I ask to visit the site, I need to say this.

I went on holiday in June, after which life became interestingly hectic on several fronts and I stopped blogging.  I just couldn't make the time.  Meanwhile a great deal of relevant stuff has happened, especially with regard to my dad's situation, and I'm already reading earlier posts with a kind of disbelief that he functioned as well as he did so recently.  It's different now, as you'll see, and I need - to repeat, mostly for myself at this stage - to bring the story up to date (and by the time I've done that it will have moved on some more, I've no doubt).

The posts that I'm - hopefully - going to start publishing may or may not be in chronological sequence for a while; they will draw on correspondence and conversations that may go back several months; I may need to interrupt the flow as the situation develops.  There is a story I need to tell; I can't promise that the chapters will follow in logical order, in fact I can virtually guarantee that they won't.   Sorry about that!