Thanks Martian, much appreciated! 
Best Wishes for Christmas and the Future mate, hope you are managing to keep Chipper & the Chemo isn't giving you too hard a time! Kind regards, Phil & Sylvia 
The hossy gave me a break for the xmas/new year period, but my second round of chemo starts in January.
It's only going to be a "short" session by all accounts (which takes me to April), and is being done more as a "belt & braces" kind of thing to ensure that any small bits that may have gone unnoticed end up being eradicated.
I already have a pretty good idea of what to expect from the chemo as I started my first round of it in January, but whatever side effects the chemo throws at me I shall still consider it a "stroll in the park" compared to the recent surgeries I have undergone.
Once that's over it's back to work, although I'm not too sure whether I'm gonna dive straight back in to site work until I've had a chance to build the energy levels (and myself) back to what they used to be before it all started.
Best wishes to you & yours from the house of Martian