Friday 31 October 2014

Signs of Life


We most sincerely apologise for our recent, and continuing, absence from posting, commenting and responding to comments. At present we are indisposed but very much hope to return in the not too distant future. In the meantime, you are all, Friends and Followers, very much missed.

The image is of the Hungarian State Railway Hospital for railway workers where, somewhat strangely, we are receiving treatment. Be assured, all is well and will be so.

110 comments:

  1. Glad to hear all is well. Take care you two :)

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  2. holding a good thought for you, Hattatts dear.

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  3. How awful to both be ill at the same time and one not be able to look after the other. Get well very soon!

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  4. A rather stylish-looking hospital... for the 1950s or 60s. I hope they are up to scratch in terms of treatments and you are well cared for.

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  5. Oh my goodness, both of you ill, thats terrible. I hope you are on your way to recovery and back to your usual selves real soon.

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  6. Your absence from the blogosphere is always noted and you are missed by us and many others, I'm sure. I am confident the hospital fettler has given you the best of care and will continue to do so.

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  7. One always wonders how are others are when there hasn't been a post posted.
    I do hope your treatment goes according to plan. Good luck.
    Best Wishes.....from Margaret.

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  8. Wishing you both a speedy return to good health.

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  9. Dear Jane and Lance - I am reassured by your last words "all is well and will be so" - both of you, do take care♡

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  10. I look forward to the time when you can resume normal operations. Hope you are soon feeling well. Best wishes

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  11. I've been thinking of you and I wish I could send you a big bunch of flowers! Be well and best wishes to you both.

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  12. Wishing you and sending you the best vibes and wishes!

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  13. Hello Jane and Lance, Your somewhat cryptic message raises concerns despite your reassurances. Take it easy and do whatever it takes to get better.
    --Jim

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  14. Oh my, this is terrible news. I assumed you were off on another adventure. I am so sorry that is not the case. I hope you two will be well soon and back to your extraordinary life.

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  15. Best wishes to both of you, it's so kind you have left this message. Take care and be back!
    Olympia

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  16. Oh Jane and Lance …. so sorry to hear that you are both poorly, and so awful that you are both not 100% ….. it''s usually one or the other in a partnership ! Hoping that you both are on the mend very soon …. I shall be thinking of you. XXXX

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  17. Sending much love and all best wishes to you, Jane and Lance. I'm looking forward to your return to good health and blogging! xxx

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  18. God bless, Jane and Lance. The world's a bit dull without you.

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  19. Get well soon, and thank you for the update.

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  20. I hope you didn't have to join Hungarian Railways to get treated! Please get well soon, and will look forward to your next post.

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  21. I wish I could send you a garden, not just bunch of flowers! Of course a great gardener would accompany it so you could just sit under an arbor and get back to good health breathing in divine fragrances, no digging and delving for the time being!
    Seriously my dears, I'm really sad that you are BOTH under the weather - if that is so. Hope you are roommates, and the furnishings are beautiful antiques!

    Do get well and come back to us soon.
    Warm hugs - Mary (and Bob) xoxoxox

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  22. Darlings Jane and Lance,
    You are very much missed and also assumed you were off on another adventure and while we all love of hearing of the fascinating people, places, and cultural excursions you come across it is your heart and soul we most love. Whatever treatment you require please get it and when the time is right please come back.
    We need you!
    Your Devoted G

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  23. take care of yourself, thinking of you both

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  24. Sending good wishes for a quick recovery and a return to your wonderful
    blog about art and life.
    BarbG

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  25. all the best to both of you, good luck and hope to have you back soon , saluti

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  26. Sending my Fairy Godparents all my love, as always.

    xx

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  27. I wondered what you both were doing and had assumed that you were galavanting across the country on your quest to see the world.
    Wishing you a fast recovery and do take care. Your voices add so much to the blogosphere.

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  28. Ah, so wish you were off on a different kind of adventure, as I'd assumed, but relieved to know all is well and will be well. You're in my thoughts, and I know we will all welcome your return here, too.

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  29. I am sorry to hear that you are both under the weather, but relieved that you are on the mend.
    I am sure that you have good friends visiting you and keeping an eye on your welfare...and, an idle thought, I wondered what a Hungarian state Railway hospital matron of the period of the photo would have been like...

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  30. So sorry you are not feeling well. I have missed your blog and wondered how you are. I appreciate the update. I hope you both feel 100% very soon.

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  31. Sending my warmest and fondest wishes and prayers to you my dear friends.
    You are missed very much
    Helen xx

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  32. I hope you are both following doctor's orders while on the road to recovery. Do take care and your absence has been greatly felt.

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  33. Hello, Jane and Lance — I send you good, healing energy and look forward to your return!

    Mark

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  34. Oh, my DEARS! I so hope that you are both doing well and will be back to your usual radiant health very soon. You've been very much missed, and have been in my thoughts and prayers, since none of us three seem to be silent types without good reason.

    Be well, stay warm, think serene healing thoughts amidst the scurry and inconvenience of hospital hospitality, and remember how much and often you're thought of from FAR away.

    r

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  35. Oh I do hope you are feeling well soon. Even in sickness you find yourselves in a chic environment.

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  36. Thinking of you both! Be well and we will see you soon! Nicole

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  37. Looking forward to your return. Glad that you are being well looked after. Diane

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  38. Dearest Jane and Lance,
    What on earth has happened to you both?

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  39. Dear Lance and Jane, thank you for letting us know that you're OK. I've been thinking about you and wondering if all was well.
    Please take time to recuperate xxx

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  40. Have missed you and wondered where you were. Trust you are both well. Take care my friends. P x

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  41. Dearest both,
    I know you dislike anonymous contributions but I'm not an active blogger.
    However, I DO follow your beautiful posts and have missed them immensely.
    Thank you for your news today. Instead of putting my mind at rest it left quite a lump in my throat. I very much hope you will get all the care you need, and that the medical standard is more up to date than the architecture of the building suggests. (No insult intended.)
    Like all your virtual (and real) friends I wish you well and hope you will fully recover. God bless.
    nemona

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  42. Do you remember when the Hungarian State Railway Health Service was going to be closed and workers would presumably be denied their specialist health care services? I assume (from your post) it escaped destruction and is still going well :)

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  43. Take care and a speedy return to both fitness and blog!

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  44. Dear Jane and Lance, thinking of you and remembering you in prayer.

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  45. Good to know you are both well. Thanks for the update - I had begun to wonder, dear Jane and Lance, if you'd lost your zest for blogging. Glad to know you plan to return. :)

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  46. Oh my goodness, sorry to hear about your indisposition. Sending you best wishes for a full recovery soon. Xxx

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  47. Wishing you a speedy recovery and looking forward to your return to blogging.

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  48. I am glad to hear you are both well, I am sorry to hear you had to be there... I am so look forward to reading a new post when you are feeling up to it... I have missed you too... ;)

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  49. Dear Jane and Lance,
    Hoping all will be well soon. Miss seeing the big H.
    speedy recovery.. val xxx

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  50. Wishing you a speedy recovery. Take care of yourselves.

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  51. I do hope you will soon be perfectly well again, dear Jane and Lance, and that the Railway Hospital has generous visiting hours for your very many friends to see you. You are missed here.

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  52. Dearest Jane and Lance,

    Sending you a virtual room of flowers and wishing you a speedy recovery. I do hope that it was not the social whirl of the season and the visit of Americans that caused your indisposition.

    Much, much love to both - I hope that Teddy was able to comfort you...

    Hugs,
    Genie

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  53. Dear Jane and Lance, you are very kind (as always) to let us know of your current whereabouts. How I do hope that you will very shortly be returned to full health and be able to return to your beautiful home. Hoping that the stay at the Railway Hospital has provided some lighter moments for your wonderful spirit as well as good medical care.

    xo

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  54. Get Well Soon Jane and Lance - we miss you xxx

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  55. I was just thinking of you two and wondering how you were. I'm glad I saw this new post on another blogger's sidebar because it doesn't seem to have come through on my Bloglovin feed yet. I hope everything is okay with you both. Take care.

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  56. So very sorry to hear you are I'll! Wishing you both a speedy and full recovery. You are missed and we will be so very happy when you return.
    xoJennifer

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  57. Blogland is just not the same without you - wishing you both a speedy recovery.

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  58. Hope you will be back to full strength soon.

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  59. Sending much Love and Strength to you both.

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  60. Have been missing you but glad to hear that all is well.

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  61. What??? Doesn't sound like the sort of place you'd choose to be, even if you get a good post out of it at some point (in addition to this one which has brought your Followers flocking to your blog to wish you well)
    Take care and hope to see you back here soon fighting fit.
    Wren x

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  62. I do hope you will soon be recovered and back in your beautiful apartment, regaling us with your adventures. You are much missed Lance and Jane x

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  63. hope all is well! you are missed!

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  64. Oh my goodness!
    I wish you both a speedy recovery, take the greatest care and we will see you when you are both ready, lot's of love Sandra x x x

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  65. Dear Jane and Lance, may you both make the speediest of recoveries and come back soon to delight us with your posts and comments, Jane xx

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  66. Dear Jane and Lance,

    I am thinking of you both and hoping that you are out of the hospital and back to good health at home. So many of us care about you. Take care, there is more of life to be enjoyed and shared.

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  67. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

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  68. Dear Jane and Lance,

    Although you say you are fine, this post comes as a shock! Hope the two of you will be fine soon! Thinking of you and sending a big hug, from the girls as well!

    Madelief xox

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  69. I hope all is better soon. You have been missed.

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  70. I wondered where you'd gone. A prolonged absence from blogland is worrying, one always fears bad news. I hope you're soon back on top form.

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  71. My darlings,

    You're receiving treatment in this hospital? What sort of treatment? Have the excesses of the Good Life (splurging on Beluga caviar; drinking the cellars dry of Boërl & Kroff Brut champagne [£1500 per bottle]; and jetting around the world) finally caught up on you?

    Well, I think you deserve a good long rest after your wonderful posts of this year regarding your worldly adventures. I have personally written to the Doctor-in-Charge at your hospital to demand that you are given First Class Treatment during your stay. He wrote back to confirm your regimen would be the following: 6am ice-baths, facial scrubs involving masticated spinach, 5-mile high-altitude runs, and the caveman diet. Doesn't sound fun to me!!!??

    Hope you come back to us soon.

    Fanny xx

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  72. Hope you both feel better soon. You are missed.

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  73. I hope you are on the mend quickly. We've all missed you!

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  74. So sorry to hear that you are both unwell. Please know that you are in my thoughts and prayers.

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  75. We will be here upon your return. haste not. all in good time. all in perfect time. xx

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  76. I was reassured by your parting words and I'm glad all is well. The hospital has a look of that place in Drancy during the war, which is a bit of a worry.

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  77. Oh!- do take the very best care of yourselves. You are precious. Rest and get well.

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  78. You know this already, but we all miss you too.

    Tabitha.

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  79. Wishing speedy recovery and happier days ahead. Take good care of yourselves!

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  80. On this lazy, iron-cold Sunday, I wish you well and warm and HOME, I hope, I hope. I hate to think of you so confined and unwell, and so pray that you're under your own roof at last, safe in the tender ministrations and care of your dear Timea.

    We're to catch a swat from that Artic swath which has encompassed so much of the Northwest and Midwest, but only a few floaty cornflakes passed the windshield as we drove home from school on Friday. Sweetpea was with us for three days-and-nights, and it was a cozy time of reading and homework and checkers and tucking-into-that-pretty-pink-bed.

    I wish you both well and warm, with good soup and a pot of tea, and someone to tuck you into soft comforters, keeping watch til you wake.

    love and,

    rchl

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  81. My dearest Jane and Lance,

    Hello. I'm wondering how you are. It seems like you both have been away for such a long time. Your gentle humour and presence online is greatly missed. Your absence had left a void in all of us, your devoted readers. I hope all is well with you. You always put your heart into whatever you do and I am sure that you are flourishing wherever you are.

    I'm thinking of you both.

    With love, ASD x

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  82. I am hoping by now you are both well. You have been missed.

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  83. oh, dear, one had hoped you'd be safely home and recuperating by the time the turkeys flew. The outward appearance of the hospital is not beneficent. Perhaps it's been improved since the photo was taken in 1948? No, of course not. But then people are invariably charmed by you both -- and then the doctors and staff will care for you as would your readers!

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  84. You are greatly missed, dear ones!
    Wishes for strong health...sending much love to you....
    I hope you are back to your fabulous adventures very, very soon!
    Warm hugs,
    - Irina

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  85. Dear Jane and Lance,
    I'm just thinking that it's been quite a while now since we heard from you. I do hope that you are now both recovering and that you will be back with us again very soon. Sending healing vibes from the UK and am thinking of you both. Much love. XXXX

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  86. My darlings,

    When are you coming back to the blogosphere? I am simply suffering withdrawal symptoms from not being able to read your erudite adventures. I know you must have a busy social diary, but how can I get over these withdrawal symptoms? Come back soon!

    Fanny xx

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  87. Really concerned now dear friends……just so long since we've heard from you. Hope you are warm and cared for at home by now. The months are flying by, before you know it we'll be arriving in the city! We pray you are both well and will be ready to raise a glass with us as planned.
    A few words to us all would mean so much - everyone is truly concerned about you.
    Love and Hugs - Mary & Bob

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  88. Hey, Y'all! Just thinking about you. Happy December.

    r

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  89. My darling Jane and Lance,

    I am so sorry to learn that you've been unwell... and with the dreaded 'flu, then bronchitis and then an abscess. My poor darlings! This triad of illnesses cannot last! If only I'd known, I would have nursed you both back to health with a riotous dose of good food, good drink, and good humour!

    I hope you're feeling somewhat better now. Everyone's waiting for you to post, but only when you feel well enough. You're welcome to visit me - virtually or in person - at any hour.

    I am sending you a rainbow-coloured willy warmer (minus the itching berries), as well as a large amount of healing light, love and kisses.

    Get well soon, darlings! x

    lots of love
    Fanny xxx

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  90. All the best to you both for a speedy recovery!

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  91. Wish you both better really soon xx

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  92. My Comment flew away like the Doves of Morning, and so at the risk of repeating myself:

    Dear Y'all,

    I hope this finds you well, warm, and HOME---that's always a relief and a comfort.

    We've had a few little "doings" leading up to Christmas, with a little program at Sweetpea's school, a couple of evenings out, several family dinners and brunches, and our yearly Chritmas Tea for a few friends, and in these little quiet celebrations (though that Christmas Tea got a bit beyond mere titters into raucous guffaws at a point or two---who's to chide six ladies having fun conversation over teacups?)--I've thought of you often, how you'd enjoy the talk and the fun and the food and the unaccustomed accents at the table, ranging from my slow drawl to neighbor Honey's lingering touch of German from the thirties, to all our other Hoosier girls ranged round the table.

    I just hope you're having the celebrations you're up to, and which won't tire you out or wear you down, this close to Christmas. Quiet evenings at the fireside, in smoking jacket, ascot, and Jane in one of her splendid caftans or kimonos, with martinis to hand to supplant the dreaded cough mixture, and lovely music to soothe, soothe. I think you two could manage suave and soignee from beneath an oxygen tent.

    If I can't play nursemaid with pillows and honey-tea (whiskey optional but usually prescribed), I'll imagine you to health and TALK you well,
    with candlelight and warmth and all the bell-ringings of the season. (And you'd be tickled pink if you could see this absolutely gorgeous "PLUM PUDDING!!!" that Caro has seasoning in the cool room. It's made with Tawny Port, sultanas, currants, some dried figs made by our friends who are masters of confiture, and it's the first time she's EVER ordered a pound of suet from the butcher. She even ordered a beautiful pudding-basin for the true effect; it's already had the first steaming, and has a cap of white paper beneath the lid, with a red-and-green bow of kitchen twine. She'll steam it again for a couple of hours, then anoint with brandy, flame and flourish and sing, and serve it for dessert (and a bit of pompous circumstance) on Christmas Eve.

    Of course, it will be in some plebeian company, following our traditional Pinto-Bean-Soup supper on Christmas Eve. But I don't think even the delights of Laduree' would be discomfited in company with a good black skillet of crusty cornbread.

    Enough of my sillies---just know I wish you well and hope that you'll be all restored to your usual glow very soon.

    love from the Heartland,

    rachel





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  93. Just want to say I am thinking of you both and hope that things are improving and that you will both be able to enjoy the Christmas festivities. Much love to you both. XXXX

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  94. Dear Jane and Lance, it's the tradition among us here in the American Midwest to extend holiday greetings politely and formally -- "Happy Holidays, Season's Greetings" -- while between the lines our correspondents read -- "We're terribly worried that you're not well. Please let us know how you're faring in that far off land..." Know that your friends and followers are indeed truly concerned about your welfare and hope to see evidence that you're out and about, or at least safely home in Budapest, in time for the worst of winter. (That hospital does NOT appear to have adequate central heating.)

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  95. To my darlings Jane and Lance,

    You are on my mind all the time and I do hope you are both recovering and that life is picking up.

    A palpable hollowness grows bigger every day that the blogosphere is not filled with your wonderful tales or your joyful 'take' on life or the beautiful photos of you both having fun.

    I've enormously enjoyed reading of your wonderful travels this year and I am hoping you will come and visit the little village of Brill at some point in 2015!

    I'm sending you light, love and healing power and I'd like to wish you both a very Happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

    love
    Fanny xxx

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  96. A Merry Christmas to you, dearest Jane and Lance!
    I hope and pray that you are both well, and enjoying this festive time...
    Much love to you,
    - Irina

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  97. Dear Jane and Lance only just made it over here and find you've been indisposed. So sorry to hear that my dear friends I do so hope you are both feeling better, you are sincerely missed by us all!
    Take care of each other, sending happy thoughts and healing over the miles to you both.

    Much huggings,
    Jane xx

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    1. Half Heard,
      All Hat No Herd in the Metropolis needs you to raise your voice and summon The Beacons of Budapest to make the greatest comeback since Lazarus...tell them they are much missed and desperately needed!!!

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  98. My darlings Jane and Lance

    Happy New Year! May 2015 be your best year ever. Enjoy Uruguay... (I'm so envious!).

    lots of love
    Fanny xxx

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  99. Dear Jane and Lance: Just checking in - wishing all the best! xox

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  100. To each and everyone, we apologise for straying from our normal practice of replying to each comment but wish to assure you how very much appreciated are all of the wonderful messages left here. Thank you all so much.

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  101. You are loved and missed by everyone. Glad to hear from you!

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    1. That is really sweet of you and so very kind, Kim. Thank you.

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