{"id":37448,"date":"2026-01-08T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=37448"},"modified":"2026-02-22T13:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:44:06","slug":"so-sorry-for-the-radio-silence-of-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/37448","title":{"rendered":"So sorry for the radio silence of late &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tash-hat.jpg?resize=600%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tash-hat.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tash-hat.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So sorry for the radio silence of late, but world has been turned a little upsidedown \ud83d\ude41<br>Had been in hospital for just over 2 months, QMC then a rehab unit after a spinal operation. At home how since week before christmas. However, legs are still very unstable and am moving around [oh so slowly ] on crutches, always frightened of falling. My left hand has returned to near full function again, but i still have a gammey right hand. Hard to hold a pen, cutlery, pick my nose or operate a mouse. [bugger, am right handed]. It&#8217;s taking me some time i guess, before I can get onto so many project, as left in September \/Oct!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So sorry for the radio silence of late, but world has been turned a little upsidedown \ud83d\ude41Had been in hospital for just over 2 months, QMC then a rehab unit after a spinal operation. At home how since week before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/37448\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-37448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-tash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37450,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37448\/revisions\/37450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}