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Thank you for starting the Christmas Singles Thread great idea - how much I will be able to participate I am not sure because as many of you are aware my father is seriously ill in hospital.

He has progressed slowly but at his age and the type of operation he had the recovery is the difficult part even so he only had about 20 per cent chance of coming through the op and with his attitude and I am convinced groups of Christian praying both sides of the pond pulled him through this and are sustaining him now.

We have reached a very crucial stage now getting him to re-start his eating and drinking. They have now taken off all the drips and withdrawn the NG feed at night and I am trying to take bits in to encourage him to eat more. Today I am going to try some fromage frais and cheese spread triangles.

Any suggestions for soft easily to get rid of food/candy would be appreciated, he never likes chocolate in hospital unfortunately.

Here is a photo I took of him and considering he had his colon removed which was twisted and gangerous 2 and half weeks ago I am surprised if sometimes nervous and at times fearful how like his old self he looks.

Beautiful pic, and one of my favorite signs of winter. We have lots of pairs of cardinals around here (Maryland) each winter, with the little brown female tagging with the scarlet male. I just got my birdseed out for the first light snowfall of the season. This year, my kitty is no longer here to wave her tail when the birds come up to the back step to peck the scattered seed. During her last year, I put a pillow on a chair for her so she could still watch them. We have gray doves, titmice, swallows, and lots of other kinds of birds, plus owls at night, and we are in a migration zone so that geese fly over spring and fall, and butterflies come in swarms in the summer.