Christmas 2012 - - Mum has become more frail during the year - here she is earlier in the year at Ayton Castle just after lunch. But recently she has been in hospital for a few days and then recuperating at "the Knoll", the local nursing home/hospital in Duns. This is going to be a tough winter - and it get lonely as you get older, friends die off, the paper is difficult to read with failing sight and the complexities of the internet are too confusing.