Well everybody I'm back again.

Sorry I wasn't around this weekend but I was in Northern Ireland to help with Alex's Silver Lining Appeal as you know and I am only just now getting myself back to sort of normal.

It was some weekend. The garden party was a huge success, so many people coming to support Alex through her chosen charity. Don't know what the total is yet so wouldn't presume but I know it will be a good one and I can only say a huge thank you to all the people there who were so kind to Tabby and myself, offering superb hospitality and great friendship. Most of all though I thank Alex who I think I will always see as a courageous and inspiring woman who puts all of the rest of us to shame.

We all have problems in our lives that niggle and seem huge but we can go to bed and most times wake up in the morning to find the solution. Alex and the millions of people like her wake up in the morning knowing there is no solution. There is always hope though. As Lluest's charity motto says, "In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope."

I can honestly say that when I watched Alex move through the day on Saturday, I could understand that sentence.

I think she may still be incarcerated in the hospital today so don't know if she will read this till she gets out but I think I speak for all of us here when I say that we all hope for the best for her.

Oh heavens, I've gone all emotional.