I too am short sighted, far too overweight with legs that can get me a full hundred yards before needing a long sit down and a similar painful back.

But, be that as it may, I have had a year blessed by some fine insights, interesting things to contemplate and some enjoyable conversations, from a strange, inadvertently obtuse, shortsighted, short legged lady with a bad back and a remarkably flat sense of humour that she does not realise sparks some modest but quite real affection.

Have a good Christmas Denise, m’dear. You may experience all your organic disablilities but what I vicariously experience on my screen is a really lovely woman with a fine spirit and a good heart, a genereous nature and a enquiring mind. I have benefitted from all of them. I think I have come out ahead and need to use the fingers on my other hand for once !