It’s been three months since I left hospital (Kings College) and apart from Christmas, which was part of my bargain with the people who care for me today, I have worked since then. Unfortunately, my body hasn’t properly healed and I am now anaemic.

Anemia is a condition that develops when your blood produces a lower-than-normal amount of healthy red blood cells. If you have anemia, your body does not get enough oxygen-rich blood. The lack of oxygen can make you feel tired or weak. You may also have shortness of breath, dizziness, headaches, or an irregular heartbeat.

That’s me now and I want to be like this!

The bad news is that the waiting list to get the work done to stop me bleeding (causing the anemia), takes 6 months to arise so I find myself facing a bill of over £5,500 to get the job done quickly). It is not in my DNA to go private – my Dad was a GP who wouldn’t do the work, but everyone, including his wife and my Mum says – get it done – so on April 8th I will go into hospital and I hope shortly after to be whatever the opposite of anaemic is.

So I’m going to do some more work next week and then take the first days voluntarily off work for a week starting Wednesday. I will go to Scotland and visit some good friends including Derek Scott and I hope say high in friends in Perth!

I want to go to a little place outside Crieff and go to the oldest public library in the world.

It’s in what is now a field called Innerpeffray.

It’s Scotland’s answer to Buddhism, it calms you down – which is what I need to do! They say that Scottish Enlightenment was something that burned in  the 18th Century;  spending time in this building suggests it is still alight.

I will get back the following week, in time for my operation but I am not stopping my demand to get a better way for DC savers to get paid their pension or those in DB schemes to stay in them, if at all possible.

For my time in Scotland I will be staying by Loch Rannoch. This is a view of my favorite mountain that I’ve been up a few times.

We started coming to Loch Rannoch in 1978 when my father bought two weeks to get away from school and medicine (he was a doctor).

It is now doing the same for me and I will be thinking about how lucky I was to have medicals in the neurological department of Lings in Nunhead – who saved my life.

I will keep blogging (as long as I have equipment and broadband). I will be running a session on April 1st of Pension PlayPen on the impact of Chancellor Reeves’ new measures and I will be contactable in the normal ways.

Please feel free to keep me company.  If you are in this part of Britain over the week beginning 26th of March, feel free to send me stuff you would like me to publish and if you want to find out more about Pension SuperHaven and our plans for it, let’s Zoom or Teams.

I might have overnight space for you , if you fancy staying in a lodge.