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Report front. You will no doubt have seen the item on the front page of Simile this month, that explains that situation. The RCVS is quite content to sit behind the barricade and feels safe. Their message is still one of concerns about welfare and science. I cannot comprehend the connections myself and I hope we can point out the error of their ways in a form that they are unable to dismiss.
Our website continues to flourish and develop, under the careful management of Malene and Phil. These two do so much for us that we would be lost without them. It may be that there are those among you who do not realise how much work, effort and dedication they pour into this project but please see for yourself and help out with contributions, comment, support and visits.
The tragic loss of Stuart threw us into a potential crisis which has been averted by the ever-willing and industrious Ilse, who leapt into the breach to manage a holding operation. Ilse’s workload has been very heavy as a result. Nazrene [Moosa] has agreed to take on the role of Hon. Sec. and I hope her position will be ratified at the next AGM. I’m sure you’ll all agree, we shall be in very safe hands under her watchful eye. We also welcome Sara Fox- Chapman as Hon. Treasurer, who will keep our finances on track despite the wide Atlantic Ocean. She has been a great friend to the BAHVS over many years. I sense that we yet again have a strong and active committee, to take us forward.
It has been an ‘interesting’ time in the Chris & Shelagh Day household since my last letter. My own health took an unwelcome and unexplained dive at the beginning of September. My heart failed to keep pace with demand and I found myself affected by extreme symptoms. I was booked to go teaching in Spain, in beautiful Asturias. I
dangerously decided to go ahead and my angel of a wife drove me all the way (and back!). Things were so bad I was unable to walk 20 yards. However, things in Spain went pretty well, as far as I know and I passed on some of my experiences with homeopathy, with chiropractic, with dowsing and with the LASER. I enjoyed it anyway! We had a ‘wet-lab’ (that seems to be the modern term for ‘hands- on’) involving live-case homeopathy, live-case chiropractic and most of the assembled group submitting themselves to chiropractic manipulation in order to experience it first-hand. Nobody died!
There had been talk of taking the roof-box to Spain with us, in case I needed to be ‘repatriated’ but I survived the trip and that was not necessary. I then proceeded to pay a lot of attention to my ticker, which has happily vastly improved.
After that, I finally decided to have my eyesight checked, as I had effectively lost sight in my left eye and it had been bothering me something rotten for a couple of years. It was diagnosed as a massive cataract, which will have to be dealt with when they pluck up courage enough to give the drugs they usually give for the operation, in view of my heart.
Thankfully, the ticker is now a lot better but I am not yet firing on all cylinders and the poor old veg garden has been badly neglected by me. Shelagh has done her best to keep up with it and done brilliantly without my help. Happily, we are able to enjoy the fruits of labour from earlier in the year, with our winter vegetables. Of course, I have taken quite a few homeopathic and supplement measures for the ticker and I decided to try Ayurveda. I shall no doubt report back on the results of that, when I have given it some time to work its hoped-for magic and if I survive. It is a massive commitment with things to mix up and
prepare several times daily throughout the day, so it had better be good!
With the capricious and extreme weather the British Isles has endured lately, I do hope you are all safe and not seriously affected. So many have suffered terribly. We have been mercifully spared the worst here in South Oxfordshire. I am not going to dwell on the ‘B’ word, as I’m sure you’ll all have had it up to your limits. However, we have to hope that, should it ever take place, it does not lead to an even darker time for homeopathy.
Our thoughts now inevitably turn to Christmas, only 26 days away as I write. It will not be a joyous time for many but I do hope all of you are able to wring out the very best of it all and have a great time. We can look forward to the New Year 2020 with hope and prayers for a better future for homeopathy, a better future for our dear planet and a better future for mankind in general. So much misery on earth is man-made so I dearly hope that positive changes in thinking and attitude will start to make a difference. We owe it to our children and grandchildren.
Thought is energy and positive thought is positive energy!
Roof box not required
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